Media Ecology is made up of many different components. Each component needs the others to continue. One component can’t carry on without another. Everything works together.

Media Ecology is made up of:

• Government and Law
• Money
• Audience
• Social Media
• Institutions
• Creators
• Distribution
• Technology

For my music magazine. I would be the creator. However to produce magazines you have to have the money to fund for it. You need to make sure the magazine is suitable for children. People would read the magazine. For people to read the magazines you need to distribute them somewhere. You cannot create a magazine without the technology but then the states and institutions have to provide the technology. Everything relies on each other. All the parts need one another too co-exist.

This map is to show what would happen if media ecology didn’t have government or law

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In media we created a Fire Station that was Ecological. The old man’s dinosaur would get stuck up the tree and the people in the fire station would save it. The government would pay the Fire Stations workers and then the workers would help the citizens of the town. The citizens would pay the government when they were helped and everything would need each other to work for the whole system to work. This way everyone is happy.

The point of the lego exercise was for us to understand and show how a part of life would work in a ecological system. We were put in groups and were asked to choose a place that we could turn into an ecological system. We chose to do a fire station. Then we had to recreate the fire station out of lego and explain our system to the class.

This helped with my understanding of ecologies because we got to visualise and interpret it in our own way. This way we could understand things better. We could see how the systems all interlink and how media interlinks and components rely on each other.

These are the photos of my ecological fire station