By showing certain images, the audience will choose which image they relate to the most, furthering the relationship to that imagined community. The media can perpetuate stereotypes through certain images and vernacular. Another way that the media can create imagined communities is through the use of images. The media also creates imagined communities, through usually targeting a mass audience or generalizing and addressing citizens as the public. Anderson depicts a nation as a socially constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group.:6-7 Anderson's book, Imagined Communities, in which he explains the concept in depth, was first published in 1983, and reissued with additional chapters in 1991 and a further revised version in 2006. An imagined community is a concept coined by Benedict Anderson to analyze nationalism.
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