Digital Networks and the Transformation of Civil Society: Taksim Solidarity in Post-Gezi Turkey (Routledge Focus on Communication and Society)

This book investigates the long-term impact of digital communication networks on civil society organizations, with a particular focus on Taksim Solidarity (TS), the broad-based coalition that emerged during the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey. Moving beyond the commonly studied short-term mobilization effects of social media, this study centres on what happens after the protests fade-a critical yet under-researched phase in the lifecycle of social movements.Drawing on a decade of empirical material, the author examines how digital platforms have influenced the cohesion, communication practices, and endurance of TS as a civic collective under growing authoritarian constraints.Key themes include digital fragmentation, online-offline disjuncture, the erosion of deliberative culture, and the challenges of maintaining activist infrastructures in the absence of continued mass mobilization.Through a mixed-methods approach - including social network analysis, discourse analysis, an original