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Abstract enNew media have many important functions including information share, organizing, decision making and educational features. These new media channels are relativly open to general public acces and different social movements are able to spread their messages in order to reach their organizational goals. New media with the information flow, consumer-drvien content and, more democratic and less editorial standarts supports new possibilities. Ordinary people are empowered to report on their political experiences by new media environment. New communication technologies provide to improve a vast diversity of a new kind of civil disobedience practices to the activists from different political perspectives. In this article, usage of new media to mobilize for political change by Mexico’s Zapatistas movement, Indymedia, Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street activists who involved in the wave of mass protests in occupy movement have been discussed.

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