New Imagined Community - 9781845193287

New Imagined CommunityGlobal Media and the Construction of National and Muslim Identities of Migrants\nAuthor(s): Uriya Shavit\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781845193287, 978-1845193287\nSynopsis\nAdvanced media technologies -- satellite technology and the Internet -- have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. Part I -- \""Imagining Nation States from Afar\"" -- extends Benedict Anderson's model of the nation as an imagined community; discussion focuses on how immigrants are enabled to imagine their native national communities from afar, almost as if they never left their homelands. As a result, new typologies of migrants are created, such as the passive trans-national. A comprehensive analytic framework for the role of advanced media technologies in fostering relations between immigrants and their national communities of origin is presented. In addition th.