As a result of the 19th century Western settler movement, a massive diasporic movement of people across borders formed a unique group. This ongoing process of population movement and mass exodus, as well as the effects it caused, attracted attention in academia on both a cultural and political level. However, unlike the original residents, this diasporic movement demonstrated distinctive features such as an identity and ideology that evidently differed from those of the natives. As Sreberny (2000. P179) argued: “Diaspora has become a key term in the theory of immigration, ethnicity and identity” and has exerted considerable influence historically, culturally, socially and economically. on developed capitalist societies. Nowadays, academic studies increasingly attach importance to diasporic identity formation and meanings because it has been the dynamic reason for how diasporic people behave in Western advanced societies. Of course, due to the multiple factors that worked together to influence the formation of diasporic identity, in this essay I will specifically discuss how diasporic media, one of the influential factors, contributed to constructing the meaning of community and identity. First, I will elaborate on the capacity of diasporic media to construct the meaning of community and identity. Second, I will discuss how meanings of community and identity are shaped through media representation and consumption in everyday life. The development of human technology has enabled communication to break the restrictions of distance and has even invented new tools for shaping identity through media. “Mediated communication, as it developed initially through the press and then in radio, television… in the medium of paper… The media in Western democracies. Paris: UNESCOGeorgious, Myria. (2006) Diaspora, identity and media: diasporic transnationalism and mediated spatialities. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.Gray, Ann (1992) Video Playtime: The Genre of a Leisure Technology. London: Penguin Lull, James. (2000) Media, communication, culture: a global approach. Second edition. Cambridge: Polity.Sreberny, A. (2000) “Media and diasporic consciousness: an exploration among Iranians in London”, in S. Cottle, (ed.) Ethnic minorities and the media: changing cultural boundaries. Buckingham: Open University Press. Thussu, D. (2000) “Counterflow in Global Media” in International Communication. London: ArnoldNaficy, Hamid (1999) Home, exile, homeland: film, media and the politics of place. New York, London: RoutledgeWilliams, Raymond (1961) The Long Revolution. London: Chatto and Windus