ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the significant and multi-faceted role that the new media technologies played during the Syrian revolt, with the aim of reflecting on how the new information technologies have changed people's power, journalism and conflicts in many and diversified ways. The unwrapping of Syria's chapter of the Arab Spring has been influenced by an unprecedented and overwhelming role that the new media technologies have played since the early days of the Uprising and to a large extent in the years that predated its outbreak. The chapter argues that the Syrian media scene experienced three major phases in its development. First, the emergence of alternative sources of information through the digital space that acted as catalysts, mobilisers and organisers of the popular movement. Second, the evolution from media activism to citizen journalism and finally, the professionalisation and diversification of the media sphere amidst an intractable conflict.
