Multimodal Representational Meanings of ISIS’s Victims on Facebook

Abstract

After 2003, Iraq faced different terrorist groups that committed massacres against the Iraqis. They presented their violence in media using social networks and particularly Facebook posts. This article investigates the representation of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's portrayal of three images posted on Facebook posts. The article focuses on the representational meanings using Kress and Van Leeuwen's (2006) model as an analytical framework and the discussion focuses on narrative processes. The findings of the current study highlight the effective role played by images in the process of meaning-making by means of narrating the concept of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria style and to portray their ideology through disseminating the message of fear and intimidating.