New sociial movements as a form of social communication –Luhmannian analysis of Gezi Park sample-

This study tries to analyze the relations forming current social organization in terms of Luhmann Sociology which comprises society as the inclusive supra-concept of communication, and concerning the field data related to Gezi Park incidents. The changes in communication resulting from the Real-Time Communication Systems based on Luhmann's communication and society concepts and system theory have been used in explaining the social relations which enable Gezi Park incidents. The structure of current societies occur collaterally with the unstable, heterachical, and hybrid structure of new communication in addition to social and subjective disengagement which is characterized with the communication's functions of extraordinary social independence and overindividualism. In this sense, considering the new communication tools as in fact being the transporters of new communication, how and how much politics, one of the social systems, gets affected by this change has been discussed through the individuals who participated in Gezi Park incidents. During the study, with reference to the data collected by immensely observing the people who took part in the incidents occured in İstanbul Taksim Gezi Park in June, 2013, the transformative effect of new communication on political culture which means reconstruction of the society in Luhmann Sociology has been clearly observed. In this sense, it has been observed that the phonemena which affect the meaning the participants convey to politics, political participation, the changes in motivation and the forms of political participation comprise and alter in terms of the social relations of the communication in the participants' daily lives.