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Wikipedia. The Social Workplace — Where Community and Collaboration mean Workplace Productivity. Social Media and Contemporary Activism. Turkey protests: how activists stay one step ahead with social media. She will receive links to maps only visible to fellow activists that show the location of makeshift clinics in houses and even in restaurants' basements, and can watch live streams of protests on the Ustream service if she is at home.

Turkey protests: how activists stay one step ahead with social media

She told the Telegraph: "It has had a massive impact, and if it wasn't for social media we wouldn't have the right information on anything. It's been our saviour. " Damla said the use of private group messaging meant activists could "react quickly to check whether we're all safe", and added that if access to Facebook and Twitter was temporarily disrupted, as it has been on each day of the protests, they would merely start communicating through the blogging site Tumblr instead.

Protesters became more careful about communicating information privately after they realised police knew where they were, tracking public posts on social media. Social Media Activism.