دور شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي في ثورات الربيع العربي

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The Arab region has witnessed in late 2010, unless witnessed over the decades, after they kept the Arab countries outside the waves of change and democratic transformation for many reasons, which prompted many of the specialists and researchers to talk about an exception Arabs In this field or the existence of a contradiction between Arab culture and democratic values.

But the Arab world start in this period witnessed the beginnings of the disintegration of the structure of authoritarian regimes by the protest movements and popular uprisings.

The Arab world entered a new phase in every sense of the word meaning, Associated with this stage protests and a wave of revolutions that swept several Arab countries for change by the youth, And use of new media for communication and coordination among them, What was the security forces stationed on the issuance of the people know how to deal with it, At the forefront of social networking, which found a young Arab outlet to express their hopes and their ambitions and desires for change.

The rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter and and other modern virtual networking, opened the doors to several questions regarding the role played by modern means of communication and social networking in the Arab revolutions, Which pushed the world to re-calculations in the field of dealing with the mechanics of modern communication technologies, especially social networking.

The social networks are main and important factors that have contributed to the process of political movement and the Arab revolutions; they contribute to removal of political fear, and break the silence media applied to the Arab public opinion, In addition to others roles and contributions for these networks to the degree that some people considered the decisive factor to the success of these revolutions and protests.