Why Are Forms of Mass Media Such as Print and Television

question 49

Essay

Why are forms of mass media such as print and television important to the existence of what Benedict Anderson calls an imagined community? How are new communication technologies supporting or changing what Anderson may mean by this term?

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Definitions:

Opposition

A resistance or dissent, characterized by a direct contradiction or counteraction to a proposal or position.

I Proposition

A type of categorical proposition that asserts some, but not all, members of a subject class are also members of a predicate class.

Traditional Square

A diagrammatic representation of the logical relationships between categorical propositions in classical logic.

Existential Import

Pertains to the implication that some assertions within categorical logic assert the existence of at least one instance of something.