Syrian media entrepreneurs have broken the government’s monopoly over information.
![Wael Adel, 30, the manager of Nsaeem Syria radio station, records material in the studio in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/201442105753931580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Enrico De Angelis is a media researcher at CEDEJ (Egypt-Sudan). He has lived in Cairo since September 2011.
Syrian media entrepreneurs have broken the government’s monopoly over information.
![Wael Adel, 30, the manager of Nsaeem Syria radio station, records material in the studio in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/201442105753931580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The idea of the Internet as an intrinsically democratic medium should be left behind.
![Social networks are often forums for like-minded people leading to further polarisation of society [Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/201411465359137734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)