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Social features this study focused on are the transitional ones appeared in
societies during temporary and exceptional periods exist between an old regime fading
and a new one generating. Social researchers defined and classified it in two main
categories; Positive Features and Negative Features. The positive are: ambition, pride
and honor, strong willing to change, cooperation, purposefulness and innovation.
However, the negative ones are: lack of security, vandalism, collision and conflict,
suspicion and intolerance. Examining research hypotheses proved statistical
significances using Chi-Square test between differences of frequencies in the two
newspaper websites (npws) of the following variables: issues shown in visual clippings
(vc), density of citations, coverage attitudes, complaining–asking for relief-practicing
certain activities as a content, purposefulness and innovation as positive features,
suspicion, collision, conflict, intolerance, fear as negative features, existence of
unidentified masses, normal citizens, and reporters as human resources for the vc
content. Correlations relationships using contingency coefficient were generally weak
except those between npws and issues shown in vc (52), citations (50), attitudes (44),
reporters (43) and free business (45).