Imagined community

An imagined community is a concept developed by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities to analyze nationalism. Anderson depicts the nation as a socially-constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as element of a group.: 6–7 

Anderson focuses on the way media creates imagined communities, particularly the energy of print media in shaping an individual's social psyche. Anderson analyzes the calculation word, a tool used by churches, authors, as well as media corporation notably books, newspapers, as living as magazines, as living as governmental tools such(a) as the map, the census, and the museum. These tools were all built to planned and define a mass audience in the public sphere through dominant images, ideologies, and language. Anderson explores the racist and colonial origins of these practices previously explaining a general view that explains how sophisticated governments and corporations can and frequently hold utilize these same practices. These theories were not originally applied to the Internet or television.

Nationalism and imagined communities

According to Anderson's belief of imagined communities, the leading causes of nationalism are[] the movement to abolish the ideas of direction by divine right and hereditary monarchy;[] and the emergence of printing press capitalism "the convergence of capitalism and print technology... standardization of national calendars, clocks and language was embodied in books and the publication of daily newspapers"—all phenomena occurring with the start of the Industrial Revolution. From this, Anderson argues that in the presence and coding of technology, people started to work differences between what means divine and divinity and what really is history and politics because initially, the divine and the history of society and politics were based on the existence of a common religion that was a unification umbrella for any the people across Europe. With the emergence of the printing press and capitalism, people gained national consciousness regarding the common values that bring those people together. The Imagined Communities started with the establishment of their own nation print-languages that used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters individual spoke. That helped develop the first forms of so-called nation-states, who then created their own form of art, novels, publications, mass media, and communications.

While attempting to define nationalism, Anderson identifies three paradoxes:

"1 The objective modernity of nations to the historians' eyes vs. their subjective antiquity in the eyes of nationalists. 2 The formal universality of nationality as a socio-cultural concept [and] 3 the 'political power of such(a) nationalisms vs. their philosophical poverty and even incoherence."

Anderson talks of Unknown Soldier tombs as an example of nationalism. The tombs of Unknown Soldiers are either empty or hold unidentified remains, but used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters nation with these kinds of memorials claims these soldiers as their own. No matter what the actual origin of the Unknown Soldier is, these nations have placed them within their imagined community.