Wednesday 11 January 2012

BLOG GROUP NOTES

*CANNABIS, Sam Hoh*

- link to health, medicinal
- members of nettle family
* textiles
* hemp
* medicines
- 400 chemicals in marijuana
- can help with a lot of illnesses e.g. AIDs, arthritis 
- argument against is mental health problems
- for, rely on it and believe its treating it, can't die from overdose, gets rid of dealers
- 973 die from pharmaceuticals each year, 0 from marijuana

*TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL MEDIA, Emily*

- social networking
- if facebook were a country it would be the third biggest
- spend an average of 55 minutes on it a day
- Australia has most users of social networking
- most popular youtube video is Justin Bieber 
- 80% of twitter is from mobile devices

*CLOTHING INDUSTRY, SLAVE LABOUR, Simon*

- more people now in slave labour than ever before
- more than 1 million given title of a slave in US today
- GAP Kids...child slave labour in India
- 250 million kids working in developing countries
- massive slave labour in chocolate and fireworks

*BRANDING, Imogen*

- Coca-Cola, idea behind original bottle, recognition...helped shape the modern day centre
- social effects, consumerism
- branding of cities, NY attracts 35 million a year
- logo development of apple, nike, pepsi
- 75% of buying decisions based on emotion


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