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This article examines what extent women are active on the Internet, while it searches for an answer to the question of how their activeness could affect the women emancipation. The main goal of this article is to understand the social media’s role in the feminist struggle of Turkey in the light of the increasing number of female social media users since the Gezi movement. In relation to this, this article searches for an answer to the question   to what extent social media platforms could be influential in women’s movement in general as well as in constructing global feminist movement. Discussing these issues brings the communication gap between feminist generations and intergenerational conflicts as questions to be addressed. Today, the existence of fourth wave feminism emerged as a result of social media platforms is discussed. For this feminism, which is also called Hashtag Feminism we have been living in since 1990s, activism in cyber space is an indispensable tool, even though it has some negative and debatable sides. 

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