IntroductionThis essay aims to critically examine the political uses made of social media in the times of contemporary social movements. More specifically, this study explores the dynamics of Internet use in the midst of the Gezi Park occupation in Istanbul, in the summer of 2013. In a period of conflict and resistance, new trends and values ​​have emerged, and “polities” such as we know (parties, unions, militant networks) have been questioned 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 promoting a culture of autonomy. Networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube function as technological communication platforms, and therefore require other social spheres to be analyzed in parallel: authoritarian government tactics; protests and occupations as practices of ephemeral and situational dwelling; public spaces such as political forums and rethinking the public sphere. In this sense, both the activist and the common citizen are questioning themselves today precisely on some of the elements that constitute the institutional forms of representation: well-defined codes and roles that formalize the experience of belonging and hierarchy, the repertoires of action and the methods of formal speeches. When Urban Planning Becomes Politics In the mid-1980s, various transformations were initiated in Istanbul under globalization and the transition from national development to neoliberal capitalism. With this change came the failure of social integration and constant inequality at the economic, political and cultural levels. Such a lack of social integration can be experienced in the forms of gated communities - house of wealth... in the center of the card.... Just before Turkey, Twitter had considerable importance within the demonstrations during the Arab Spring, especially in Egypt and Tunisia. However, its use among the Turkish population presented distinct and unique patterns, as analyzed by New York University's Social Media and Political Participation study. In 3 days, 10 million tweets were sent using the popular hashtags of the event and 90% of these were sent from within the country, 90% from Istanbul. In 2011 in Egypt, for example, only 30% of tweets were sent from there, making use of the network 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 English. This trend suggests that the audience was much more local than international, and this is probably one reason