The Çapul.tv Experience of Gezi Park Movement

Abstract

The decreasing role of nation states in regulating trade and commerce generated an imbalanced international economic order and threatened sustainable economic development at national level. As a consequence, the closing years of the 20th century witnessed the birth of anti- corporate and anti- government social movements, critical of the neoliberal globalization of corporate capitalism that aimed to direct attention to social and economic imbalance both at national and international levels. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between contemporary social movements and online participatory media. The assumption of this study is that contemporary social movements demand the support of online participatory media environment by nature. The sustainability of online participatory media forms emerged in these movements depends on their civic culture. The perseverance of gapul.tv, which is established during Gezi Park movement, is owed to its civic bases. © 2025 by IGI Global Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved.