İtobiad (Jun 2018)

Changing Social Movements in the Context of International Relations

  • Meral Balcı

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15869/itobiad.411455
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 2
pp. 1392 – 1405

Abstract

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With the industrialization movements and globalization, the technology has progressed very rapidly and caused the change in the structure of social movements leading the emergence of new social movements including women's rights, environment, peace and freedom. These movements have taken place instead of class-based social movements, which had economic base. The public's undertaking of the entire burden of the economic crisis in 2008 soon affected the whole world causing the public to mobilize. People, claimed that the rich became richer occupied New York, the heart of the popular financial system. By means of social media, participation in this movement increased rapidly. The movements of people from different cultures, struggled for their purposes in the direction of their common goals. In this context, new social movements including Wall Street movements heve explained social media's impact on international relations.

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