Social Media as Empowerment Agents for Citizens in the Changes of Islamic Awakening

Social media and social nets have been known as considerable phenomena in recent years; regarding their abilities, usages and affects, they have been centered on, particularly after revolutionary changes of Islamic awakening in The Middle East and north of Africa rising, as some believe, by them. The paper has studied the way in which social media affected Arabic revolutions; those viewed by some to be formed and progressed by social media and called as revolutions of facebook and twitter. Regardless of the measure, and acknowledging the very affection, the paper has intended to survey manners of this affection and concluded that social media have been of deep and considerable part in developing and deepening citizens` abilities and protest movements. And again, the paper tries to study the extent to which the role players of Islamic awakening have used social media such as facebook, twitter and youtube to increase awareness of people and to order political conditions. It should be state that in the paper, the changes in Arab countries have been regarded as Islamic awakening.