1. Information and Social Media
Social Media is a computer mediated systems that allow for wide social interconnections or building of publics through social networking

2. The History of Social Network Sites

3. Social Network Sites
Social Network Sites are web based services that allow individuals to:
Construct a public profile using network platforms.
Identify other users that share the same connection.
View a variety of list of connections within the interconnected platform.

4. Technical Features
Visible profile that displays list of friends who use the same connection.
To join any of the network sites, users often complete series of questions.
A profile is generated from the questions.

5. Usage There are many network sites. They include but not limited to:
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Skype, Whattsapp, Cyworld, Bebo, Myspace.
Facebook is the widely used. Created in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.
September 2006 it has subscription base of 100 million users.
August 2017 it has subscription base of 2.04 billion users.

6. Social Media Users in Numbers

7. The Role of Social Media
Social media is an organizational tool,
It is an alternative press,
It creates awareness...

8. Social Media and Political Change in four examples
Anti Afd Protest in Germany
Anti Trump Protests in USA
Tahrir Square Protest in Cairo, Egypt
Gezi Park Protest in Istanbul, Turkey

9. Can social media help develop politically active communities?

10. Can social media help develop politically active communities?

11. Can social media help develop politically active communities?

12. Can social media help develop politically active communities?

13. Anti Afd Protest in Germany

14. Anti Afd Protest in Germany

15. Anti Afd Protest in Germany
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in central Berlin after exit polls showed that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party had become Germany's third-largest political force.
Shouting slogans such as "All Berlin hates the AfD!" and ''Nazi pigs!", the demonstrators gathered outside a building in Germany's capital where the anti-immigrant party's leaders were celebrating winning an estimated 13.1 percent of the votes in Sunday's federal poll.

16. Anti Trump Protests in USA

17. Anti Trump Protests in USA

18. Anti Trump Protests in USA
Al Jiazeraa article:
«Thousands of people journeyed from across the US to Washington, DC, to protest on the first day of Trump's presidency, January 20.
During the swearing-in, Alsip was among the more than 230 protesters arrested when officers from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) blocked off a large area and hauled off nearly everyone. 
"I am wondering if my 24th birthday next week will be my last as a free person," she says by telephone from Chicago. "I've never in my life had such a painful and stressful experience. There are no words to convey the severity of this."
"Our experience in police custody [that day] was totally dehumanising. We were kettled, treated like animals and denied basic human rights and dignity," she recollects. "People were forced to urinate on the streets and denied water and food."

19. Tahrir Square Protest in Cairo, Egypt

20. Tahrir Square Protest in Cairo, Egypt

21. Tahrir Square Protest in Cairo, Egypt
On 25 January 2011, hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square and protested against President Hosni Mubarak who had been in power for 30 years...
Tahrir Square’s spirit of change was very powerful and infectious. Activists who look back to those days say Facebook and Twitter were just tools to gather people. They were never the driving force of the movement.

22. Gezi Park Protest in Istanbul, Turkey: A story in pictures

23. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

24. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

25. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

26. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

27. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

28. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

29. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

30. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

31. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

32. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

33. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

34. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul

35. Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul
According to Wikipedia:
* Date‎: ‎27 May 2013 – 20 August 2013
Started as a small protest against uprooting of several trees and grew into huge anti-government demonstrations.
- 7,548,500 actively in person during June in Istanbul alone (unofficial estimate).
- Death(s)‎: ‎22
- Arrested‎: ‎at least 4,900.
- Social media networks have played a major role in organizing the protests.