Towards a proposed vision for an innovative digital news platform and the communication needs of deaf and dumb users

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Department of Visual Communication, Faculty of mass communication, Ahram Canadian University, Egypt

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The current study aimed to reveal the digital characteristics of an innovative news platform, which is commensurate with the communication needs of deaf and dumb users. About identifying the characteristics of the digital news platform that is most preferred by the study sample. The study was applied to a deliberate sample of digital media users from the deaf and dumb category in the governorates of Cairo and Giza), whose number is 210 respondents. The questionnaire was designed in both its printed and electronic forms, and applied with the help of 2 Sign language interpreters, taking into account the nature of the time period and its data, and the study relied in its theoretical framework on the Media Dependency Theory , as it is one of the theories that examines the effects of the media on the public.
The study concluded, in its most important results, that the study sample relied on social networking platforms, the most important of which is Facebook, as well as (news applications), to follow up on current events. Its results are that the characteristics of the proposed perception of the digital news platform that enhance the communication process for the majority of the study sample were formed in a news application that includes a mixture of general and specific news for this category specifically, which comes within the framework of a mixture of text news, videos and images accompanied by sign language with the possibility of transforming the news The text of the signs drawn, and communication with one of the news interpreters into sign language, with providing the news with a camera icon, and linking it to the translation program, with the possibility of audio recording of the news, to help the hearing impaired listen to the news, and to be a paid news platform linked to the Internet.

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