Much like the Arab Spring, the Gezi protests were an environmental sit-in that ultimately turned into a social movement based on the influence of various forms of social media. Rolien Hoyng and Murat Es coin the term "Turkish media ecology" to evoke a sense of particularly on the part of Turkey's relationship with media outlets and platforms. In Turkey, media censorship and control by state institutions most directly impact broadcast media. Both authors emphasize how "…media-ecological affordances are conditioned and modulated by legal frameworks and institutional-political rationalities". They also note that such censored media ecology forms a 'fertile milieu' for the proliferation of conspiracy theories which both feed on one another. Scholar Gulizar Haciyakupoglu examines how social media influenced the protests, specifically looking at how trust was built and maintained among protestors across multiple platforms. From his interviews, the scholar extrapolates that "closed groups" like Whatsapp and Facebook "...allowed the circulation of confidential and trustworthy information among first- and second-degree friends" whereas Twitter was used for "rapid acquisition of logistic information" that became important during the protest.