Civic Networking in the Cyber Space and its Impact on the New Social Movements in Middle East

Internet and cyber space have been assuming increasing role played in the formation of political upheaval in the recent years. Author, in this paper, is attempting to study how opposition has used these media in fomenting social movements in some of the Arabic nations in the Middle East. The main question now raised is how the structural opportunity provided by cyber space will help social movements developed into a civic network. Could the structural opportunities provided by digital opportunities result in the formation of public sphere of digitally direct social movements? Main data in this research is gathered through reading documents, articles and books and as such it is a library oriented research. Sociological and historical methods were employed in the gathering and analysis of data.