ABSTRACT
Global citizen as a still-developing concept may be connected to sociopolitical movements, such as the Arab Spring that began in late 2010, which are harbored and sustained by the Internet. The Arab Spring is a complex and wide-ranging event; thus, to focus on the impact of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and its links to protests activity in North Africa and the Middle East is to perhaps regard only one part of this phenomenon. The term global citizenship is problematical, not just in the obvious fact that it has no legal standing of any kind, or a governmental body to support and defend it. The concept of global citizenship itself seems to have entered the mainstream public discourse: A simple Google search of "global citizen" yields over ten million results, and the number seems to grow with each new search conducted.
