Syrian Digital Public Space A study of the concept and Constraints of formation

Abstract

Digital space, through many digital interaction mechanisms, has contributed to the creation of spaces for discussion, communication, exchange of ideas on the public affairs. this represents an important point in creating a general and digital space, as an alternative to a public space that did not arise in the Arab social reality for political, social, and historical reasons, in contrast to the Syrian situation and the comparison of the public domain that is digitally formed with general space in the sense of Habermas, Fraser and Calhoun, the researcher reached a public conclusion based on a parallelism in the purpose between the space formed in Syria and the public space, and which is the crystallization of public opinion and the parallelism in the manifestations and similarities in the general features, that the public digital space in the Syrian situation is a public domain but incomplete for rational discussion and criticism and the formation of public opinion, has its tools and methods that correspond to the immaterial nature, complete with the crystallization of discussions in the space on the basis of monetary rationalism, and it is produced gradually through the development of the level of consciousness, and its future is linked to the factors that drive and discouraged its completeness as implied by the researcher.