The real or only the imaginary identities of the nations inhabiting the present territory of the Balkans have an aspect not only real as a combination of events and historical facts as well as contemporary changes, but also the dimension of transmedia tales of Macedonian identity. These two levels of forming or creating identity processes not only co-exist or compete with each other, they also permeate each other. Today, however, this second aspect of creating – often imaginative and self-identifying – transmedia auto-narrations about the origin of identity prevails. They are then an attempt, an effect of mediatisation processes, i.e. mediation of the memory of the past or the present by the media not only in the narrow sense as the press, radio television, the Internet, but also as all memory carriers (from historical sources, museums, monuments, anniversary celebrations to transmedia stories, film, theatre or widely understood art).

The real or only the imaginary identities of the nations inhabiting the present territory of the Balkans have an aspect not only real as a combination of events and historical facts as well as contemporary changes, but also the dimension of transmedia tales of Macedonian identity. These two levels of forming or creating identity processes not only co-exist or compete with each other, they also permeate each other. Today, however, this second aspect of creating – often imaginative and self-identifying – transmedia auto-narrations about the origin of identity prevails. They are then an attempt, an effect of mediatisation processes, i.e. mediation of the memory of the past or the present by the media not only in the narrow sense as the press, radio television, the Internet, but also as all memory carriers (from historical sources, museums, monuments, anniversary celebrations to transmedia stories, film, theatre or widely understood art).