The phrase 'public imaginary' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to how people in society commonly imagine or perceive the world, for example, “The negative stereotypes presented in the media have shaped the public imaginary of certain ethnicities.”.
Despite the public imaginary of hackspaces as user-led spaces, neither the Ateneus nor these other makerspaces are particularly grassroots phenomena.
They will discuss genetics in the public imaginary.
"Aside from the fact that birthing bodies have a lot in common philosophically with zombies, they are also, like the zombie, a public imaginary, a body that stands-in and is infused with our deepest sensibilities.
Unsurprisingly, even a cursory glimpse into popular media reveals the increasing stronghold of epigenetics also on public imaginary.
The tensions arising between expert and public imaginaries highlight the difficulties that may surround any transition towards a low carbon future and demonstrate the need to work with, rather than around, the public.
I like the way it recognizes the full spectrum of "dirtiness": public, private, imaginary, physical, creepy, beautiful, romantic, lustful, healing and wounding.
For Burkhart's painting style, made to look like calendar cast offs for each month of Taylor's (and Burkhart's) passing life, vitalizes the public, if imaginary, conflation of Taylor's sexual indiscretions and provocative filmography.
Someone says something in the imaginary public space of the drama – something bland or grand.
Everything I write, I write for myself, not for some imaginary public.
But unlike Twitter or Tumblr or the now-semi-moribund Livejournal, that public audience remained imaginary.
May has wasted close to £2m of our money on repeated attempts to deport her imaginary public enemy number one, Abu Qatada.
