Küresel Toplumsal Hareketlerde “Ben Nesli”Nin Rolü
The Role of “Generation Me” in Global Social Movements

Summary/Abstract: Along with the transition from the new social movements to the global social movements, there has experienced a significant change in the actors of the movements, in their interlocutor, in their organization, in their demand. An important pillar in the plane of the actors in this change was the emergence of Generation Me visibility at the movements. Generation Me have have used extensively social media in the of organization and action, separates himself from other actors in terms of bodily visibility and his clothes. Generation Me reveals the specific actions with of certain level of knowledge, art, education and culture, questions the current life and management models with another world's demand. Generation Me have presented presenting a new perspective to the movement, collected the attention of the public with the specific actions, reached wide circles of the slogans created with ironic language and motivate energy with motions. In this plane, Generation Me emerges as an important actor in the global social movements. In this study have used Generation Me conceptualizationof by Tweng due to the satisfying to work on the issue in Turkey. The relationship between the new generation and global social movements was done in the axis of this conceptualization. The study was conducted in the form of literature review and on a theoretical level.

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