IntroductionThis essay aims to critically examine the political uses made of social media in the era of contemporary social movements. More specifically, this study explores the dynamics of Internet use amid the occupation of Gezi Park in Istanbul, in the summer of 2013. In a period of conflict and resistance, new trends and values ​​emerged and “politics” as we know them (parties, unions, activist networks) have been called into question within Turkish society. The Internet can be seen as a tool but it is also an essential condition for creating and maintaining leaderless, deliberative and participatory movements, and for fostering a culture of autonomy. Networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube function as technological platforms for communication and therefore require that other social spheres be analyzed in parallel: tactics of authoritarian government; protests and occupations as ephemeral and situational practices of habitation; public spaces as political forums and the rethinking of the public sphere. In this sense, both the activist and the ordinary citizen are now questioning precisely some of the elements which constitute the institutional forms of representation: well-defined codes and roles which formalize the experience of belonging and hierarchy, the repertoires of action and formal modes of discourse. When urban planning becomes politicsIn the mid-1980s, various transformations were initiated in Istanbul under globalization and the transition from national development to neoliberal capitalism. This change was accompanied by the failure of social integration and constant inequalities at the economic, political and cultural levels. Such lack of social integration can be felt in the form of closed communities - hotbeds of wealth...... middle of paper ....... Just before Turkey, Twitter played a considerable role in the protests of the Arab Spring, particularly in Egypt and Tunisia. However, its use by the Turkish population shows distinct and unique patterns, as analyzed in the New York University Social Media and Political Participation Study. Over 3 days, 10 million tweets were sent using the popular protest hashtags and 90% of them came from within the country – 90% from Istanbul. In 2011 in Egypt, for example, only 30% of tweets were sent from there, making network usage more global than local. Another interesting fact is the language in which the tweets were written: in 80% of cases, the messages were in Turkish and not in English. This trend suggests that the audience was much more local than international, and is likely a reason why