The next new thing

The new type of media that I imagine is people could have real live experience in the virtual world. It is a new way of human interaction. I can imagine when people sleep on a super bed then they are in the virtual world interacting with others. It could make people confuse about the real and virtual world, but they could experience something that they wouldn't experience in real live. For example, people could live in the ocean for a day. It must be a great experience that they could never experience in real live.

Wiki So Far

I have not yet contributed to our class's wiki. I have been doing research on the technology category and I am planning to add a sub-content called "OnePlusOne". It is a new android cellphone that only sell to customers with invitations. I will continue to do research on two other categories, photography and advertising. I would focus on how photography has been become an important factor for social networking applications. People used to share moments with text only, now a lot of people just upload a picture with a line to express themselves. For advertising, I will research more on the benefits of advertising by using social media.

P2P File Sharing

File sharing is the transmission of of various types of files such as audio, pictures, video between two computers through network. P2P, Peer-to-Peer file sharing is one the of the most popular method of file sharing. P2P file sharing allows one person to offer their file to another person and they could download it as many times as they want. An example for P2P file sharing would be copyrighted music share between people. One person upload a song on the internet and give everyone access to download it. This is the most common thing now, whenever we want to download a song we could just google it. There must be a free copy there for you to download. According to Wendy Kaufman's article, "Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other," technology provides a great sharing platform between peers because the cost is very low or free. Torrento is a great example for P2P file sharing. People can easily access, share, download, upload and search for files. However, the convenience of P2P file sharing might cause people in trouble because it is illegal.

Work cited:

Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/05/10/182651552/peers-find-less-pressure-borrowing-from-each-other

Privacy

As social media has taken a huge part in people daily live, the issue of privacy has become more serious. Even though social networking sites like Facebook allows users to change their privacy setting on their own desire, but their information is still searchable in public. Nowadays privacy is too hard to be protected because personal information is too easy to be searched in public. Some states started to talk about that we might need regulations to protect privacy. I hope they will come out with some rules that could really protect privacy, otherwise it would be more serious in the future.

Advice

New media has been used broadly for educational purposes. Baruch College should also take the advantage of it. One of my suggestion would be if a class has been scheduled cancel, the professor could record a video for the lecture and send it to the class. So that the class could follow the regular syllabus and the professor doesn't need to worry about delaying the class schedule. Another suggestion is I encourage every major could create an official Facebook page. It is not necessary have to be run by the department, it could be run by a professor who's very passionate about it or a formal student organization. For example, There is an official Facebook page for CIS majors, students exchange course experience and sometimes professors would leave comments below the post. This could help students to get information more easily and faster.

Creativity

New media has created a whole new platform to foster creativity. Youtube has made an ordinary person famous faster than wild fire. People like Justin Beiber owe all his success to youtube because that’s where he was discovered. It is a great place for people to express their creativity and talent through videos. A lot of people made mash-ups of their favorite song like “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” with Disney cartoon characters or Spongebob. Like a Nickelodeon spokesman said “Our audiences can creatively mash video from our content as much and as often as they like.” 

Work Cited

Barnes, Brooks. "Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?"The New York Times. The New York Times, 23 Sept. 2007. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.

Creativity and New Media

Many say the internet now consumes the majority of our lives. When we wake up the first thing most people look at is our phone, whether it’s for social media or the news. Even though people are spending a lot of time on new media, it also expanded our creativity. Like in my video I managed to create this video using Biteable.com.