There is a clear relationship between the basic processes of social modernisation and the dominant structures of broadcasting While social and economic modernisation meant increasing centralisation and concentration of capital and political power the breakup of traditional communities produced new ways of life Mobility was both social and geographical and both forms implied that individuals and households were both literally and metaphorically on the move in ways that left them relatively isolated compared to people in much more stable early communities Centralised broadcasting was both an answer to the need felt by central government to reach all citizens with important information efficiently and a highly useful instrument in the production of the harmonising stabilising imagined community of the nationstate