New Social Movements

The Civil Rights Movement in the USA, women's movements all over the world, peace and anti-war movements, environmentalists, gay and lesbian rights groups The rise and fall of various new social movements (NSM) can be observed throughout the last decades. But what is new about NSM compared to former social movements? I will define NSM in contrast to former social movements - the German party Alliance '90/The Greens will be pointed out as a special example of a NSM that became a party and therefore a political institution. At the end of my work, we ll have a outlook at a post-new Social Movement, that is Microblogging and it 's application area.