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Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community

open access: yesAmerican Behavioral Scientist, 2011
The notion of “community” has often been caught between concrete social relationships and imagined sets of people perceived to be similar. The rise of the Internet has refocused our attention on this ongoing tension. The Internet has enabled people who know each other to use social media, from e-mail to Facebook, to interact without meeting physically.
Anatoliy Gruzd   +2 more
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From imagined community to imagined social space: The case of three international students

open access: yesTransitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 2021
Drawing on the concepts of imagined community and production of space, this article introduces the concept of imagined social space to understand hopes, dreams, worries, fears, sadness and happiness of three international students who have left their ...
Behnam Soltani, Ly Thi Tran
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Cultural diversity and the imagined community of the global academy

open access: yesAsia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
Transnational academic mobility and the ongoing push towards “internationalization” together raise challenges for the cultural climate of today's universities. This paper explores these issues from the perspective of supervisors of research degrees in an
Cally Guerin
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The “Imagined Recovery Community”: A Conceptualization of the Recovery Community [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery, 2016
In recent years the concept of the ‘recovery community’ has gained considerable momentum in both the academic literature, as well as government policy. Despite this, there remains a lack of understanding of the recovery community.
Charlie Lloyd   +3 more
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How brand visual aesthetics foster a transnational imagined community

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Marketing, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how visual aesthetic referents used in branding can help foster a transnational imagined community (TIC). The authors use brands embedded with Middle Eastern visual aesthetics as a research context. As
Mark Buschgens   +2 more
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Imagined community and death

Digital Creativity, 2002
This paper addresses the limits of net discourse in virtual communities. I will analyse incidents of death that shattered the 'rhetorical vision' of one particular virtual community, Xena: Warrior Palace. The observations will trace some characteristics of the community's vision of itself, how vulnerable that vision can be and how it can be maintained ...
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Imagining Communities

2018
In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a deep, horizontal camaraderie. Despite being strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences. Yet while Anderson's insights have been hugely influential, they remain abstract: it is difficult to ...
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