The aim of this project is to reveal the new patterns of (re-)constructing civil power on the public stage through scrutinizing the patterns of protest culture. It focuses on protest culture as shaped by the abovementioned internal and external factors in the countries with different quality of democracy. In this process we will trace the role of media in fostering or hindering the articulation of civil power on the public stage and thus enabling or disabling “networked public”. No doubt, when planning and organizing protests, digital media plays a key role, while popularization or demonization of protests largely depends on both digital and traditional media. Both those in power and protesters instrumentalize the media for their agenda-setting and framing, as well as for utilizing their strategies of public persuasion. In this case, the media can act as both a medium and an agent influencing the construction and deconstruction of protest culture. Finally, it is essential to scrutinize the wider audience’s vision of the “social wrong”, the perspectives of its “repair”, and their views about external constraints and internal capacities that might contribute to or challenge the enactment of the social justice politics.