Images: The New Global Language of the Internet
summary
Oxford names the emoji face with tears of joy word of the year and Instagram reports 400 million users posting over 80 million images a day, arguing visuals become a global language. Examples: the photo of Ison ctie galvanizes aid; Katie maor uses Instagram to document Ebola relief; Helen Downey moves from hobby to a Gucci commission; sha Isa grows to 37,000 followers and a delivery business. Research shows images register in as little as 13 milliseconds and Boomerang loops catch viral attention.
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chapters (41)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:18I joined Instagram
- 0:38What I understood about Instagram
- 0:56A common aspiration
- 1:20Word of the year
- 1:59Images
- 2:29Instagram
- 3:43Social Media
- 4:02Language
- 5:00Historians
- 5:42Titanic
- 5:55Afghan Girl
- 6:15Syrian Boy
- 6:58Humanitarian Crisis
- 7:33democratization of images
- 7:59changing things
- 8:27Katie Mailer
- 10:10New Doors
- 10:26Helen Downey
- 11:11Gucci
- 11:34Fashion
- 12:24Fashion Week
- 12:44Fashion Shows
- 13:12Storytelling Power
- 14:23Visual Advertising
- 15:29Shaky Issa
- 16:27The New Global Language of Images
- 17:19We want more flexibility
- 17:37We dont just want still images
- 17:49Video is blurring
- 18:11Boomerang
- 19:11Be yourself
- 19:27Authenticity
- 19:41Latte art
- 20:10I am a terrible photographer
- 20:36People like the more authentic ones
- 20:51Gigi Crouch
- 21:42The next 5 years
- 22:15Find your own authentic visual voice
- 22:40The power of images
- 23:06Thank you
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