Visual framing of Kashmir crisis: In Arab and foreign Journalistic Websites:

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer, Department of Journalism, Faculty of Specific Education - Mansoura University

Abstract

The descriptive study aimed to reveal how the Arab and foreign press websites employ the study sample for the illustrated frameworks in addressing the Kashmir crisis, and to monitor the most prominent indications and latent meanings to be presented to Arab and international levels?” the study employed survey method and content analysis tool to analyze (64) News and (68) pictures related to the crisis in three websites which is (Al sharq Al awsat, New york Times, Al-Ahram) from 1/1/2020 to 31/12/2021 and the interpretation of the results in frame work of visual framing theory, the results showed that the majority of journalistic materials Which dealt with the Kashmir crisis and include pictures  by (85.9%), and 96.9% of those news included one image of presented topics, and size of images were less than topics size by 64.1%, and the majority of the images were objective which dealing with the crisis by 83.8%,  The armies were the most prominent active forces mentioned in the visual materials under study by 78.1%,  as the sample of images that presenting the crisis are based on showing the aspects of life suffering of Kashmir Muslims by 45.6%, and the law framework the most prominent frameworks that photos are used to present crisis by rate of 73.5%.
 

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