Civil society and democracy in the age of Social Media

Table of Contents

Preface
Tuomo Melasuo (Professor Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Research as well as former Director of TAPRI, Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland)

Introduction
Fatima Roumate & Amaro La Rosa (Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón at Lima, Peru)

The social media in question
Pantelis Vatikiotis (Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey)

Rethinking international actors in the age of social society
Fatima Roumate (University Mohamed V, Morocco)

Dad, When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Thief Towards a problematization about social media and politics: the case of politicians accused of corruption
Ana Moreira (University of Minho, Portugal), Emília Araújo (University of Minho, Portugal) and Helena Sousa (Dean of the School of Social Sciences School at the University of Minho, Portugal)

E-democracy and social networks in Ecuador A survey on the municipal elections (2014)
Daniel Barredo Ibáñez (Universidad del Rosario, Bogota,Colombia) José Rivera (Universidad de las Américas , Ecuador) and Álex Amézquita (Universidad Central del Ecuador)

The role of social media in Turkey’s democratization process: An Inquiry on the Visual Traces of the ‘Gezi Park Incidents’ on Social Media
Alev Fatoş Parsa (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey) &Pınar Özgökbel Bilis (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
Translated by Nuri ARAMOLLAOĞLU

The Chilean student movement and the role of ICT’s in the opening of a new political cycle
Eduardo Méndez & Cinthya Ulloa ( Universidad de Chile)

The Effects of Social Media in the Context of Public Sphere Insularity in Russia
Greg Simons (Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm, Sweden) and Sergei A. Samoilenko (George Mason University Unitted States of America)

List of the authors:


​DR. ALEV FATOŞ PARSA
MR. ALEXANDER AMÉZQUITA
MR. AMARO LA ROSA
MS. ANA MOREIRA
MS. CYNTHIA ULLOA
DR. DANIEL BARREDO IBÁÑEZ
MR. EDUARDO MÉNDEZ
DR. EMÍLIA ARAÚJO
DR. FATIMA ROUMATE
DR. GREG SIMONS
DR. HELENA SOUSA
MR. JOSÉ RIVERA COSTALES
DR. PANTELIS VATIKIOTIS
DR. PINAR ÖZGÖKBEL BİLİS
DR. SERGEI A. SAMOILENKO
DR.​ TUOMO MELASUO