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Contact: Brendan M. Lynch blynch@ku.edu 785-864-8855 University of Kansas @KUNews
LAWRENCE Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey. Grumpy Cat. "Peanut," the Ugliest Dog in the World. These might be a sampling of the most familiar animals to millions of users of social networking sites like Facebook.
But one doctoral student in geography at the University of Kansas recognizes social networking sites as a potential boon for scientifically documenting Earth's biodiversity, particularly in developing nations. In fact, for this idea, Vijay Barve was just honored with a Young Researchers Award from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, an international organization focused on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet.
Barve said that social networks could supplement data available via established biodiversity web sites.
"Though data about birds is available on sites like GBIF, social networking would add a lot of data on groups like butterflies, moths and other insects," he said. "Basically any organism which can be identified using photographs to certain confidence would be available on social networking sites."
In a paper recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Ecological Informatics, Barve demonstrated social networks to be a viable source for photo-vouchered biodiversity records, especially those that clarify which species exist in what places within developing nations.
"There are two main reasons why geographic and taxonomic gaps exist in developing nations," he said. "First, because of colonial history, most of the historical collections are deposited with European museums and are not largely digitized yet due to lack of priority. Second, most developing countries have not invested in curating and digitizing biodiversity in their collections yet."
Barve has pored over photos of monarch butterflies and snowy owls on the photo-sharing social network Flickr, finding them to be a rich source of biodiversity data. Not just photos, but also their associated metadata, make this possible, he said.
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In high school, Shane Fischbach 15 checked his Facebook incessantly. Like the vast majority of his peers, he consistently liked statuses, posted photos and received updates on the college acceptances of friends he hardly knew.
At a superficial level, (Facebook) didnt make me any happier, Fischbach recalled. I would go on and sort of satisfy this addiction for snooping into other peoples lives, and what would happen is I would get systemically less happy because, by definition, people are performing on Facebook.
Disenchanted with the superficiality of the site, Fischbach decided to terminate his relationship with Facebook and unplugged in March of his senior year of high school.
Fischbachs decision places him in a small minority of undergraduates who abstain from using social media. In an age when efficient communication and widespread connectivity are increasingly emphasized in students lives, the move to digitally disentangle stands in stark contrast to mainstream trends. Fostering relationships today involves more than a mere exchange of telephone numbers or emails addresses, with the Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and Instagram feeds taking a prime role. To many, social networking has exploded into an art of self-advertisement, and the use of and participation in social networks seems inevitable.
Within this increasingly plugged in landscape, Fischbach and other Brown students are intentionally opting out.
I think its natural to want to be connected to people you care about, said Reem Rayef 15, who recently deactivated from Facebook. But I dont think its natural to be so in (tune) with so many people that are so marginally important to your life.
The inauthenticity and prevalence of online presentation and communication similarly motivated Pia Brar 15.5 to deactivate her Twitter account.
But as a visual arts concentrator with a focus in photography, Brar retains her Instagram account to stay in the creative process and uses the platform to post her photos regularly, she said.
Though Brar is a heavy Instagram user, she said she remains skeptical of the superficiality of modern social networking sites.
These sites are playing on the vanity of humankind, Brar said.