The Impact of Images on the UAE Media: Assessment of Media Experts of the Image Manipulation in the Press

Abstract

As communication technology broadly expanding awareness the way postmodernists put it, relativity has become a little common among youths in media in the UAE, in addition to middle age people who work in magazines or feature supplements, who deal with postmodernism school as part of their job in treating pictures through the graphics and other methods of picture manipulation. Still, a little older and middle age people in media prefer either to stay modern, or go ahead to after postmodernism, in an attempt to regain human sense of the image, in its original source, though, some would be constrained to the reality of his media organization agenda. Credibility, thus, mainly depends on how the press organization set its agenda and not on the method used to process the picture. Affecting the appearance in media is not affected by those who work or related to the media in anyway more than 10%, preferably not to exceed 5% of alteration, otherwise, the picture will lose its essence and become affected in its credibility. And this is what the results in many forms of research conducted at this study such as focus groups and questionnaire have shown. Minor technical alteration to picture, such as, adding some frills to figures appearing in pictures, or changing colour, or adjusting contrast is highly acceptable among people of different ages in media in the UAE. Digital editing of pictures in media can incorporate unrealistically multiple images into a single image to lose great extent of its credibility, as found by 71% of a questionnaire participants. Professional photojournalists regard pictures edited digitally as fine art and not photography. This is what this study all about.