Article Title: Virtual Shop Fronts: The Internet, Social Media and Caribbean Civil Society Organisations. Author: Kristina Hinds Harrison Email: Kristina.hindsharrison@cavehill.uwi.edu Please note: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Globalizations on 8 May 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2014.904163#abstract. Abstract The Internet and, of recent, social media seem to promise the ability for non-state actors to more easily participate in domestic and international politics. ‘Global civil society’ can become ever more global with the help of these ‘new media’. This paper uses the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) case to question the capacity of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to positively contribute to the insertion of developing country civil society organisations (CSOs) in a global civil society. Notwithstanding the possibilities that ICTs may open, Caribbean CSOs are not yet able to effectively tap into these potentials. Caribbean CSOs face resource constraints that ICTs alone may be unable to solve. However, the most significant hurdle that Caribbean CSOs face to elevating their work within global civil society is their relative powerlessness within global civil society. The paper contends that this limited ability to be of influence is historically contingent and illustrates that hierarchies exist within global civil society which mirror asymmetries of power inherent in the state system. Key Words: Global Civil Society; Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Social Media; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)