Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social media r/evolution : an introduction / Bariş Çoban -- Commune, the web, and the anarchist thought of Mikhail Bakunin / Chiara Livia Bernardi -- New media and empowerment in the Indignados' movement : "If you want that no one else decides for you, so that no one else speaks for you" / Tommaso Gravante and Alice Poma -- Occupy Nigeria movement, organized labor unions, and oil-subsidy struggle : an analysis of processes in media(ted) "revolution" and its demise / Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo -- The internet and democracy in Arab spring Morocco : opportunities and challenges / Abderrahim Chalfaouat -- Occupy movements, alternative new media, and utopia : the Gezi resistance and activist citizen journalism / Bariş Çoban -- Social media and social change : the 2011 campaign for stopping the massacre of the Danube Delta wild horses / Dana Florentina Nicolae -- Active or passive citizen : the influence of new media over local communities' participation / Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza -- Youth vote and web 2.0 political engagement : can Facebook increase the propensity of young citizens to vote? / Alan Steinberg -- Weblogs : revolutionary media? / Simona Stano -- The transformation of leisure in the digital age / Ana Viñals Blanco -- Virtual voyeurism and the capitalization of individuality on Facebook / Shahriar Kabir -- Are Google's executives liable for uploaded videos? : Italian case / Anna Rita Popoli -- Social media in education : main sources for inclusion and collaborative learning / Magda Pischetola -- Social media : transformation of education / Carolina Duek and Gastón Tourn.