CRAFTING THE NEW CIVIL SOCIETY – ROMANIA’S PROTEST CULTURES AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA
CRAFTING THE NEW CIVIL SOCIETY – ROMANIA’S PROTEST CULTURES AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: Romanian society experienced a difficult post-communist scenario, marked by successive formulas of “civil engagement”, last decade hosting however a major reconversion of previous civil expressions. The informational revolution supervened after 2000 generated new forms of civic activism on behalf of youth, which became a new actor on the public scene. In this context, multiple questions arose. What type of civil society does emerge by the medium of new social media? The millennial movement represents in the end a maturation of Romanian public sphere, an extension of a community of values and representations which has lacked dramatically in the last 30 years? The research is grounded on central hypothesis which claims that the civil society’s topography and semantics represents a critical quantifier of the democratisation scale within the framework of post-communist space. The typology, magnitude, sustainability, and organic growth of a “civil sphere”, all constitute signals of a genuine engagement of society’s culture, institutions and normative towards a liberal democracy project.

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