The Use of Television Visual Technologies in Presenting Terrorism.

This study examines how rt Arabic and Sky News Arabia channels present the news about isis through their newscasts; revealing the visual technologies these networks adopted in covering isis. This study centers its analysis on a sample of news stories solely about isis in two international news networks, rt Arabic and Sky News Arabia as broadcast on their satellite channels and their websites from the period 2014 to 2017. The study found that among the eleven different types of newsroom visual technologies identified in the study, both channels relied on graphs most frequently to present isis news visually. However, unlike Sky News Arabia, rt Arabic employed limited usage of visual technology to cover the brutality and violent acts of isis in its coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]