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Research on Roby Muhamad

BACKGROUND research  In the searching of biography OF Roby Muhamad we found out he is such an adorable figure to recognize about. Roby Muhamad, is an Indonesia entrepreneur and scientist borned on May 17th 1975 that known for his work with social network dynamic. His work scope are about physics, sociology, and psycology. He got his first undergraduate degree of physics studies in Bandung Institute of Technology. He took magister program in Bandung Institute of Technology in the majority of theoretical physics to deepen his physics knowledge. Not only in science field of studies, but he also  earn his doctororate in sociology from Columbia University. Roby Muhamad  currently teaching in the Phycology Department in Universiry of Indonesia. Other than being a lecturer, he also a co-owner of the location-based dating app called yogrt. Roby Muhamad along with Duncan J. Watts took a part in putting forward Stanley Milgram’s hypothesis on six degrees of separation, and it wa...

Social Media for Environmental Protection

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Earlier this year there was a forest fire in Riau, Indonesia. This forest fire since then has affected other countries such as Singapore. Throughout this week, Singapore is choked with thick/dense haze and the haze is now reaching unhealthy levels. To combat the forest fire, activists helps out the locals. Of course helping the locals is not an easy or cheap thing to do, thus activists reach out to the people around the world through social media so that the activists will receive donations to help out the locals. Usually through the social media, activists will reach  out through social media by posting about the forest fire in order to spread the awareness of this event, they then will get more people to help them combat the forest fire or they will receive resources essential for the locals to thrive and survive. According to a Huffington Post article posted in 2017, Social Media can be a perfect tool for crowd gathering by supporting and spreading the awareness and messages i...