Communicatint the nation : national topographies of global media landscapes

The nation is often described as an imagined community, thus media is crucial for the nation to be ‘imagined into being’ and embraced by large populations. One could easily claim that for the media the nation has been and remains to be almost as important, even though it is constantly challenged in times of alleged globalisation. In this book the authors argue that the nations’ roles in different geopolitical and media environments need to be revisited for three main reasons.