This article aims to explain how the interrelationship between the Internet and politics has been addressed on the basis of the literature review on the subject and to build bridges between them and the study of the civil sphere. It sets out the arguments that have indicated the need to pay greater attention to the relationship between digital transformations, order and social change in different areas. Subsequently, emphasis is placed on how internet-related political processes have been the subject of various investigations. It is argued that optimistic and pessimistic assessments of the relationship between the internet and politics may be better clarified in the light of three different but not exclusive investigations: cyber democracy, virtual public sphere and cyber activism. Finally, the civil sphere is proposed as an approximation that makes it possible to articulate these areas and bring them along a route of research in which a fruitful dialogue between sociology and anthropology can emerge.