One of the most important questions about recent social movements can be asked about the participants of these movement. Who they are? Where they were when social media did not evolved? To answer these questions we do not need to go far or do heavy research on the Internet. These are the people around us. These are the people who are striving for equality and justice throughout the course of world history. They are the masses of Lawrence Lessig, “who ignored the elite and got ignored by the elite” (Lessig, p155). They are Jay Rosen’s “People formerly known as audience” who were once at the receiving end of media consumption. In the article Jay Rosen described these people as follows:
“The people formerly known as the audience are those who were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another-and who today are not in a situation like that at all.” (Rosen, p13)
Most of the participants of these social movements are the people who do not enjoy luxury of power, and represent the working middle and lower class. They are the “ninety nine percent” of the “Occupy Wall Street” Movement.