叙利亚现代传媒发展主要分为两个时期，以2011年席卷西亚北非的“阿拉伯之春”运动为时间分割线。前一阶段是叙政府采取严格新闻管制、官方媒体“一统天下”的传统媒体时代；后一阶段则是纸媒衰退，新兴社交媒体颠覆旧有新闻秩序、在叙利亚内战爆发过程中发挥重要推手作用的“新媒体时代”。叙利亚传媒业态的发展变化，既是基于互联网的移动通信技术在新闻传播领域广泛应用的必然趋势，也是折射这个国家经历政治动荡和社会剧变的缩影。
The development trajectory of Syrian modern media was divided into two stages by the Arab Spring，a movement that swept across West Asia and North Africa in 2011. The former stage was the era of traditional media，when the Syrian government imposed strict press control and official media ruled. The latter stage was the era of new media，when print media declined，and emerging social media disrupted the old order of the press and played a major role in triggering the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War. The development and changes of the Syrian media landscape are both an inevitable trend of the widespread application of Internet-based mobile communication technology in the field of news communication，and a reflection of the political turmoil and social upheaval that this country has experienced.
