#OccupyTurkey As Turkey’s PM continues to threaten, here is a list of backgrounders for this civilian resistance:

Turkey: ?A Tree Dies, A Nation Rises?

The situation in Istanbul turned violent when police cracked down on peaceful protesters on Friday, May 31. The peaceful sit-in started five days ago where several tens of people gathered to oppose planned by the government urban reorganization of Istanbul’s only green spot: the Gezi Park. The brutality used by police forces ? teargas, water cannons,fists and batons ? to expel protesters from the park generated a broad outcry, as images of people including children and elderly sheltering themselves from teargas started flooding social networks.


An Analysis: A Breakout Role for Twitter? Extensive Use of Social Media in the Absence of Traditional Media by Turks in Turkish in Taksim Square Protests



by Joshua Tucker on June 1, 2013

The following post is provide based on research conducted in the past 24 hours by NYU?s Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory.  It is written by lab members and NYU Politics Ph.D. candidates Pablo Barberá and Megan Metzger.


The Third Wave of #Occupy

In 2011 the Occupy movement realized the fast, cheap, global scaling that one would expect in the digital age.  The crowdsourced Occupy Research project recorded 488 separate occupy encampments around the world, and France 24 reported 951 encampments in 82 countries.


Report from Turkey: A Taste of Tahrir at Taksim | The Bullet

by Sungur Savran


What is the social media style of protest?

Zeynep Tufekci’s essay analyzing the role that social media played in both the #OccupyGezi and the Arab Spring explores the differences and similarities between different uprisings, and has some very incisive things to say about what social media contributes to political change movements:


Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki

When I tell people I study social media, politics and social movements, I often get a version of the question: ?But there were protests before Facebook.? Sure, I say, but how did people hear about it? Word-of-mouth is, of course, one way but [in the modern era] it?s almost never never fast enough to spread protest of news quickly enough?remember, a political protest is a strategic game with multiple actors including a state which often wants to shut them down. Too slow diffusion of information, and your people will get arrested faster than they can show up at all. History of modern revolutions is always mixed up with the history and the structure of the communicative infrastructure of technology.***

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