ABSTRACT
In Wales the media have for decades been attributed with considerable significance in processes of cultural transformation (Jones 1993; Osmond 1983). The press, radio and then television have each been seen as playing a key role in constructing Welsh identity and the contemporary Welsh nation. Alternatively, the media are seen as failing in that project by acting as the voice of England, of mass culture, or of a version of Welsh culture which has little relevance to most people in Wales today. So the arrival of new communications technologiesaccompanied as they are by new media organisations, new regimes of regulation and new media forms-can be expected to provide threats and opportunities for the media in their construction of national identities.
