The new imagined community
Subtitle: global media and the construction of national and Muslim identities of migrants
By: Uriya Shavit.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845193287
Subjects: Nationalism -- Social aspects; Nationalism and technology; Mass media and immigrants; Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation; Muslims -- Non-Muslim countries -- Cultural assimilation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The territorial dimension of modern national imageries; title: National imageries and modern migration; title: Imagination from afar: internet, satellite television and migration; title: Imagining the homeland from afar; title: Constructing the identity of Muslim immigrants in the West: the theoretical makings of an imagined global nation; title: Global media for a global nation: advanced technologies in the service of the ummah; title: The Muslim nation: European and German contexts; title: Imagining the Muslim nation from afar.