Reading Gezi Park protests through the lens of protest PR

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“…Thus, digital communication technology is offering a model of social mobilisation in which shared practices and action repertoire of large-scale movements transcend time, place, culture and issues (Diaz-Cepeda, Castañeda, & Andrade, 2018;McGarry, Jenzen, Eslen-Ziya, Erhart, & Korkut, 2019). For instance, in Turkey's Gezi protest, social media platforms such as Twitter helped in the emergence of a counter public sphere that mobilized attention to the protest (Göncü, Saka, & Sayan, 2018). Through production and dissemination of "bearing witness" videos, still images, music, and text on digital mediated networks by activists, the everyday manifestations of the protest were constituted and made visible (McGarry et al, 2019).…”