1. News media are a source of information and opinion that use a one-to-many form of communication to help build imagined communities and shape national identity. 2. Benedict Anderson's concept of "imagined communities" explains how nations form around shared print languages disseminated by news media. This helps articulate a nation's cultural and social identity. 3. The introduction of new communication technologies like the telegraph, telephone, radio, and internet have accelerated the spread of news and challenged existing models of the public sphere.