The Gezi Movement under a connective action framework: enhancing new forms of citizenship via social media

Stavroula Chrona*, Cristiano Bee

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper seeks to understand the role of social media in the enhancement of participatory practices and behaviors focusing on the case of Gezi protests in Turkey. We focus on the role that social media played in shaping the dynamics that the movement unveiled and which appear to challenge the long standing social and political norms and values of the political establishment in Turkey. In doing so, we look at the posts that appeared on facebook and twitter between June and September 2013. Doing a discourse analysis we categorize them into different streams: dissemination of news within the country and internationally, solidarity from within the country, international solidarity and support, calls for participation, opinionated and oppositional messages. We argue that the Gezi movement is a case of connective action where social media became a tool for bringing to the forefront a form of active citizenship that urges for greatest democracy and civil rights within the country.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIn the aftermath of Gezi: from social movement to social change?
EditorsOscar Hemer, Hans-Åke Persson
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Chapter9
Pages161–185
ISBN (Electronic)9783319518534
ISBN (Print)9783319518527, 9783319847597
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2017

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
ISSN (Print)2634-6397
ISSN (Electronic)2634-6400

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