Is Mobilization for a Better Life a Challenge to Change Society?

Is mobilization for a better life a challenge to change society?

Contemporary social movements are in large extent linked by networked communication technologies, quickly developing a borderless public sphere in a mix of new cosmopolitan citizenship deep-rooted to local issues. The social movements of the internet age create online and offline communities to  share views, practices, and strategies, creating a third space defined by  Castells a space of autonomy to challenge the disciplinary power. In the paper,  first we pay attention how the communication flows across the offline and the online communities are set up, how the local level is intertwined to borderless frame to enhance collective strategies. We analyses how they capitalized past social movements backgrounds, like campaigns, and networking platforms, how they appraised the repertoire of action and communication forms of past social movements. Secondly, we pay attention to Middle East social movements in the call to question the Western concept of citizenship rights, pressuring the illegal migration flows and showing the EU exclusionist vision.