THE SOCIAL REALITY 14 december 2015
PORTO VEHLO 7 November 2015
Photo: Nacho Doce Reuters
No.4
Rio Pardo, next to Bom Futuro National Forest, during a tropical storm in the district of Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, August 30, 2015. The town of Rio Pardo, a settlement of about 4,000 people in the Amazon rainforest, rises where only jungle stood less than a quarter of a century ago. Loggers first cleared the forest followed by ranchers and farmers, then small merchants and prospectors. Brazil’s government has stated a goal of eliminating illegal deforestation, but enforcing the law in remote corners like Rio Pardo is far from easy.
INTRO
Social media is taken a bigger role in life than ever before. The Dutch spent approximately 33,5 hours online per month. But what is there to see online? Is it valuable content or just nonsense? I analyzed the news photographs and took one component of it and searched what social media has to say about this particular part. This often leads to big contradictions in the amount of posts. The thing that catches my eye was the plastic garden chair. They are blown over by the wind. Probably a familiar thing for all of us. While I researched the Internet I found out that these chairs are more familiar to us than the tropical storm in Porto Vehlo.
Worldwide Plastic garden chair Google 7 November 2015
news posts about Porto Vehlo that day google result on plastic garden chair