YENİ MEDYA ÇAĞINDA DÖNÜŞEN TOPLUMSAL HAREKETLER ve DİJİTAL AKTİVİZM HAREKETLERİ

The world is now becoming a place where the impacts of globalization are more prominent and widespread. While the very first effects of globalization were seen in economy domain, during the last two decades media, society and democracy is also going through an evolution and this process is mainly governed by the fast integration to novel and continuously developing technologies. Thanks to the new media technologies, which constitute as an infrastructure for people from different sections of society to express their disapproval and opposing ideas to politics and establish their self organisation. This article is mainly about different utilizations of new media technologies in activist movements and especially focused on digital activism with samples from Greenpeace, Change.org and Genç Siviller.