Fatemah Azimifard; Siavash Salavatian; Alireza Emad-Addin
Abstract
Selecting a proper photo for news in websites has always been emphasized. Because it’s the photo of the news that persuades or discourages the audience to continue reading. The ...
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Selecting a proper photo for news in websites has always been emphasized. Because it’s the photo of the news that persuades or discourages the audience to continue reading. The photo also shapes basic understanding of news. The present study was conducted to compare news contents with news photos, in the three news websites: IRNN, Al-Alam and Press-TV. Using semiotic analysis of Peirce, the researchers tried to find out the semiotic elements of pictures. Kress & van leeuwen pattern for Critical Discourse Analysis of photos and semiotic analysis of Barthes has been used also. Thus, 30 news from these three websites, during a two-month period (Azar And Dey 1394 (22 November 2015 to 20 January 2016() was examined. Results of the analysis show that Press-TV had the best performance among three websites in choosing relevant photos for texts. Furthermore, in 16 news proper relationship between the photo and the text exist and in 8 news, there were no relationship.
