Friday 20 September 2013

Facbook as an ecosystem



Kuttainen (2013) states I week eights lecture that a billion people worldwide do not have clean drinking water yet we waste millions dollars trying to clean up the pollution from plastic bottled water. Many campaigns have launched as well as many Facebook pages such as Keep Australia beautiful that promotes cleaning up pollution  and stopping it altogether, but there is only so much one person can do when they are so low on the food chain of society.
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Facebook can be thought as of an ecosystem of the internet savy and in every ecosystem there is a food chain. As Buchanan states ecologists who think about food webs do not always have in mind how the lion hunts down the wilderbeast just the end result(2002).the same can be said for some studying the food chain of Facebook they see the end results about how popular someone is by how many friends they have but they don’t necessarily think about how they got that many friends.
References
Buchanan, M. (2002). Tangled web, in nexus: Small worlds and the groundbreaking science of networks (pp. 138-155). New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
Kuttainen, V. (2013). BA1002: Networks, narratives and the making of place, week 7 lecture. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

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