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Networked Politics from Tahrir to Taksim: Is There a Social Media-fueled Protest Style?

TitleNetworked Politics from Tahrir to Taksim: Is There a Social Media-fueled Protest Style?
Publication TypeMiscellaneous
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsTufekci Z
Keywordscivic engagement, democracy, digital activism, participatory politics, social media
Abstract

Protesters from one of the world’s richest countries, one of the world’s oldest autocracies, and one of the world’s rising developing countries walk into ... a public space, use Twitter extensively, and capture global attention to their movement and their hashtag.

URLhttp://dmlcentral.net/blog/zeynep-tufekci/networked-politics-tahrir-taksim-there-social-media-fueled-protest-style