How does media contribute to national public?

Media culture plays a significant role in constructing the national public. Many studies have shown how the mass media such as film, newspaper, radio, and TV have constructed imagined communities and the public sphere on a national level. However, as media cultures of various places regularly cross the national boundaries, people have now much wider repertoire for reflecting on their own lives and socio-political issues, though the national mass media are still the most powerful in this respect. The practice of transnational media consumption is most elucidated by migrants and diasporas’ consumption of media culture coming from ‘home’ but those national audiences who have never moved to other countries are also actively watching and listening to border- crossing media cultures. In East Asia too, the consumption of media cultures such as TV dramas and films from other parts of the region has become more commonplace in the last 20 years.

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