INTERNET I DRUŠTVENE MREŽE: MOĆ UMREŽENIH DRUŠTVENIH POKRETA

Abstract

The information society requires new mechanisms for controlling government and injustice in order to be efficient. Social networks are powerful tools of the modern era, the use of which has contributed to the strengthening of civic awareness of the spread of influence through their platforms. Many examples in the world have shown how people gathered and organized protests through social networks in order to achieve basic civil rights. The Internet sphere has enabled the emergence of networked social movements that have proven to be very effective for achieving unity, respectively, starting, gathering and organizing various social movements for the purpose of solving significant problems and representing the interests of citizens. One of the main goals of this paper is to point out the democratic potential of the Internet and social networks. The paper first presents some of the previous researches related to the topic of the paper, then significant examples of networked social movements in the world are presented and analyzed.