ABSTRACT
From the advent of Indymedia at the 1999 battle of Seattle anti-World Trade Organization protests, to the worldwide diaspora of anti-globalization protests (2000–2003) and the great anti-war protests starting in 2003, all the way up through the United Nations climate protests in Copenhagen in 2009, WikiLeaks, Occupy Wall Street, and the Arab Spring, the digital communication revolution has been transforming how social movements are assembling themselves on a planetary scale. In the same way that these movements and ruptures express the transformative effects of new Internet technologies that came of age in the 1990s, so now does the emergent global climate justice movement of the 20-teens embody and express the transformative potential of emergent social media technologies that came of age in the 2000s. 1
