THE USE OF INFOGRAPHIC VIDEOSON THE PAGES OF SATELLITE NEWS CHANNELS VIA FACEBOOK: THE BBC ARABIC PAGE IS AN EXAMPL

Abstract

The study deals with one of the modern visual forms to be implemented in facebook thereby
establishing studies concerned with visual language and its aesthetics in order to present a clear
vision to implement infographic on social media generally and on facebook particularly.The
method followed in the current study is the descriptive approach in order to describe the
variables of the phenomena concerning the topic of the study The findings of the study show;
first, infographic video in the survey study, focus on the "Time in suite" could be seen in the
topics covered by the infographic included in the survey. Second, predominance of the used
traditional constructivism on videos supported by interviews over the other videos. Third, the
visual language of the surveyed videos are characterized by being well developed and
coordination of their components. Forth, the aesthetics of visual language are coincident with the
communicative properties of the broadcasting platform (Facebook).Fifth, the dominance of
conventional responses regarding the reaction of BBC home page users on Facebook concerning
the visual content of the infographic videos.