Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Allameh tabatabaei university

2 Faculty member of Allameh Tabatba'i University

10.22034/jcsc.2022.551054.2552

Abstract

The rise of identity based movements, pan-nationalism, and immigration along with the expansion of the communicative power of mass media and social networks, has increasingly called the validity of identity forms recognized as nation-states into question. New identity claims arouse doubt on whether are eighteenth-century European frameworks still sufficient to define collective identity as "nation"? The Taliban claim for representing the Afghan people - which has been accompanied by rapid seizures of power since August 2021 - when the primitive group use of modern media to represent its identity and performance is one of the most contemporary examples of this idea. Benedict Anderson believes that nations are "imaginary communities" that are formed around common imagination. In this regard, Dr. Nancy Rivenburg considers the content of the media to be largely a form of collective identity and public perception of the country. This article tries to examine the issue of considering the two mentioned approach, in the conditions of weakening the connection between the borders of the Nation-States with the collective identifications within a country, as a nation, how can the media Occupying by groups such as the Taliban will be effective in creating and spreading new forms of political identity. For this purpose, an interdisciplinary approach in political sciences and communication sciences has been used.

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