This study analyzed the characteristics and direction of the visual information contents design in which information providers induce information receivers to make a choice in assumption that social media-based information contents would develop into ...
This study analyzed the characteristics and direction of the visual information contents design in which information providers induce information receivers to make a choice in assumption that social media-based information contents would develop into data image- and visual information-centered contents. The analysis found that the characteristics of image-oriented visualization were mostly found in social media. In the information contents exposed to social media, visual language plays the role of verbal language. In addition, emotional communication contents (ex: Harmony between imager and typography, visual poetry, visual essay, photo essay, etc.) have been the mainstream. In the information contents, in addition, there has been the development of texts among the following information: contents where objective facts and subject fictions are mixed; advertising information which induces form and adjacency information; mixture of personal information; private and personal information. Because of the mixture of personal information and visualization of social media contents between public and personal information in an easy-to-understand-and-decode manner, it is forecasted that the visualization, simplification and mixture of contents would be the mainstream in media phenomena.