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speech on social media promote armchair for activism​

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The discussion on the relation between internet use and citizens’ civic and political engagement is conducted over two major paradigms. On the onehand, the optimistic viewpoint claims that the internet has been radicallytransforming political participation allowing for low-cost mass mobilizationwhich would result in overall increased levels of political participation. Onthe other hand, the skeptical approach evaluates virtual actions like signing e- petitions, joining social networking sites’ groups, publishing and sharingcampaign content, participating in short–term boycotts as ineffective and frivolous attempts.This article aims to evaluate political participation opportunities offered bysocial networking sites, namely “social media activism”, in the context ofnew social movements; and to interrogate the functionality of such activismand its limitations comparatively. Apart from this framework, the fundamental differences which distinguishes new social movements fromuniversalist and class- based social movements, called as “old” will beinsisted in the first part of this short study. Afterwards, an understandingthat attribute a meaning to social media activism in terms of democratization