This introduction to the four papers that make up this themed section locates them in the wider theoretical perspective from which they originate, and highlights the importance of taking into account digital media and technologies as an independent factor that significantly transforms contemporary nationalisms and social identities. Digital media has intensified and accelerated the relationship between culture and politics. It offers new ways of community‐building and identity‐making: both top‐down and bottom‐up, both within the nation‐state and beyond its borders. New research will hopefully explore the complex ways in which both elite and lay understanding and practice of nationalism are evolving in competition and collaboration with each other.

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简介：数字时代的民族主义和侨民的转变

对构成本主题部分的四篇论文的介绍将它们定位在它们起源的更广阔的理论视野中，并强调了将数字媒体和技术作为独立因素显着改变现代民族主义和社会认同的独立因素的重要性。数字媒体加强和加速了文化与政治之间的关系。它提供了新的社区建设和身份认同方式：从民族国家内部到其边界，自上而下和自下而上。新的研究有望探索精英和非专业人士对民族主义的理解和实践在竞争与合作中不断发展的复杂方式。