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ABSTRACT Recent empirical research is examining national identity as a bottom–up process. Despite the promise held by social media in accessing the ‘black box’ of ordinary citizens’ national identity, literature on the subject is scarce. We study Greek national identity on Twitter, in relation to the acceptance of the agreement between Greece and Northern Macedonia about the name of the latter. Despite the systematic recourse to a plethora of references and symbols from antiquity in public discourse and mainstream media, we found that Twitter users made limited use of national identity markers and put a strong emphasis on the present.
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National Identities explores the formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the present day. It examines the role in forging identity of cultural (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with "the other" etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining how these have been shaped and changed over time. The historical significance of "nation"in political and cultural terms is considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The focus is on identity, rather than on contingent political forms that may express it. The journal is not prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach.
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