Suchergebnisse

Social media r/evolution : an introduction / Bariş Çoban -- Commune, the web, and the anarchist thought of Mikhail Bakunin / Chiara Livia Bernardi -- New media and empowerment in the Indignados' movement : "If you want that no one else decides for you, so that no one else speaks for you" / Tommaso Gravante and Alice Poma -- Occupy Nigeria movement, organized labor unions, and oil-subsidy struggle : an analysis of processes in media(ted) "revolution" and its demise / Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo -- The internet and democracy in Arab spring Morocco : opportunities and challenges / Abderrahim Chalfaouat -- Occupy movements, alternative new media, and utopia : the Gezi resistance and activist citizen journalism / Bariş Çoban -- Social media and social change : the 2011 campaign for stopping the massacre of the Danube Delta wild horses / Dana Florentina Nicolae -- Active or passive citizen : the influence of new media over local communities' participation / Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza -- Youth vote and web 2.0 political engagement : can Facebook increase the propensity of young citizens to vote? / Alan Steinberg -- Weblogs : revolutionary media? / SImona Stano -- The transformation of leisure in the digital age / Ana Viñals Blanco -- Virtual voyeurism and the capitalization of individuality on Facebook / Shahriar Kabir -- Are Google's executives liable for uploaded videos? : Italian case / Anna Rita Popoli -- Social media in education : main sources for inclusion and collaborative learning / Magda Pischetola -- Social media : transformation of education / Carolina Duek and Gastón Tourn -- Index

Abstract
This study discusses how activist citizen reporters in Turkey, who initiated a brand-new alternative new media practice,
transformed news gathering and writing activities in the process of the Gezi Park Resistance, which erupted in Istanbul in
June 2013. A handful of citizens, outraged by the police violence as well as interested in human rights from a journalistic
perspective chose to create their own make-shift media outlets or to become medium themselves. They gathered and simultaneously
disseminated news and broadcast live on many occasions mostly through social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and
livestream, in the absence of traditional mainstream and/or alternative media. They also contributed to the solidarity of the resistance.
In this context, the theoretical framework of this study is based on concepts such as alternative media, citizen media and citizen
journalism. Likewise, concepts like democracy, citizen and journalism are also re-evaluated from a radical perspective. After theorizing
'Çapulcu Media', a local variant of the Rodriguez's 'citizen media', constructed in the Gezi Resistance by a few activist citizen reporters,
this ethnographic study concentrates on their activities in the field as well as the process of their identity formation based on data
collected from in-depth interviews and continuous attention given to their social media accounts. Finally, this study aims to develop
a critical understanding of a radical variant of citizen journalism in the context of contemporary Occupy movements.

AbstractThis article focuses on the Independent Communication Network (BIA) as an instance of alternative media in Turkey. Throughout the study we define "alternative" media as non-dominant, counter-hegemonic media that prioritizes its distinct relationship with its audience. We report research based on in-depth interviews with the producers of the network's online site "BIANET news" combined with focus group studies with communication students and women activists that are identified as the main audience segments of BIANET news by the newsmakers. By focusing on the agents of both production and reception, this research enables us to examine participation and its form at both ends and to expound the problems of the conditions under which the user/audience can become the producer in Turkey.