COMMUNICATION ACTION AND FACEBOOK: THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE GEZİ PARK EVENTS

The developments in the new media technologies have removed distance among individuals, and the usage of internet and social networks has enabled to constitute new public areas, directing the community to be “a network community.” demonstrations started by several people via social media, which people use as a communication means at most in the present times, share their opinions, thoughts, and experiences on a common platform with each other, sometimes organize them, and use for the aim of serving for an objective, can reach millions of people.it has been aimed at putting forward what the power of social media is in the spill-over of the gezi park events, which started as an environmentalist opposition to prevent the uprooting of several trees in the gezi park in taksim in may of 2013 and immediately changed its direction against the turkish state, and in the people’s influence on each other in this way.