Web-based social media and brokerage in international relations

In recent years, the Internet phenomenon has been at the forefront of boundless connections. New communication technologies such as Web 2 technology and virtual social media based on it have created a huge change in various fields, including politics and international relations. This article aims to show how Web 2-based social media has changed our understanding of brokerage in international relations. What does this change have to do with international relations? In answer to these questions, it is hypothesized that Web 2 has changed our understanding of brokerage in two main ways: First, it has allowed brokerage to be found on an individual level; Second, this individual agency can be so independent, given the exposure to information and access to it outside its environmental structure, that in turn it has challenged the power of the structures that operate within them. These two points apply to the field of international relations, questioning the dominant theories of international relations that support a state-centered and structuralist approach to international relations, and highlighting the need for critical theories in the study of international relations. he does. In this regard, we will study examples such as the Egyptian revolutionary movement and the terrorist group ISIS, as well as the French yellow vest movement.