Next New

There are many forms of new media in the world today. One of the more popular forms of New media is Virtual Reality. VR is mainly used through video games that put you in the world of that game simulating a real game feel. A lot of people always want to go this or visit this, but either cant due to certain reasons or just dont have the time. That is what a new form of VR can due. VR is mainly simulations. These simulations can range from going to concerts and sporting events to climbing Mount Everest. The range of possibilities is unlimited. This form of media can help people accomplish dreams of theirs without really even doing it. It can also create happiness for people.

Wiki so far

As of right now I haven't contributed to the class wiki, but I plan to contribute within the next week. The research I have been doing is related to the topic of my term paper which was about whether or not social media is good or bad for our health. I just want people to know the consequences or even the benefits of social media on our health. Most people just use social media for simple purposes. Reading tweets or looking at images posted by friends, family, or celebrities we may follow on the several social media sites that exist. Health is the number one thing in life. We should always take care of it and should know what can make it better and what could make it worse.

P2P

File sharing is a common thing I feel is in the workforce. People within a company work together and sometimes need to know the same information. File sharing is the ability to transmit files from one computer to another through either a network or the internet. Besides the basic file sharing there is also P2P. P2P is peer to peer file sharing. P2P is the form of sharing and distributing digital media through peer to peer network sharing. In the article "Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other" by Wendy Kaufman talks about a from of P2P. In the article Kaufman talks about a woman who cant get a loan for her credit card debt and even if she could the interest rates were very high. Instead of going to a bank she used Lending Club which helped her get a loan at a reasonable rate of  6%. Instead of bank helping her out, her peers did instead. Another example of P2P is Gnutella.  Gnutella allows connecting to the network and sending out a request for a file the individual wants to 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Advice

In college we as students learn many different things. From the most basic english class to a 4000 level math course. With all these different class there is going to be a lot of work involving a lot of different information. When we need help with questions when at home we usually resort to our notes and textbooks for help. If those dont help we go online and search the questions in hope that there is some place that contains the question with a detailed answer to that question. The most popular sites for this is Chegg Study and Coursehero. While these websites are helpful the only issue with them are that we must pay to see the answers we need. What I believe Baruch College should do is create a free site similar to Chegg and Coursehero with all questions answered by Baruch Professors. This would be great for students because it is free and we would know that the answers we are getting are from professionals and will be right. This can improve grades and even help professors know what topics people are struggling in.

Privacy

Today we are in a world where as of right now new media and other forms are at its peak. With that the topics of privacy and confidentiality have also emerged. There is a lot of rumors about how the government is watching us and is invading our 4th amendment right to privacy. This is somewhat true. After 9/11 the government passed a law called "The Patriot Act". This actually allowed the government to listen in to calls, track internet searches, and look and text messages. This was used for anti-terrorism. Besides that we can control our privacy and confidentiality on our own through our ways of new media. Majority of the forms of new media have settings where you can control privacy. For example with sites like Twitter and Instagram you either make your account private or public. If it is public anybody can see your profile. If it is private people need to request to follow you to see your profile. But even with all this people can hack into anything they can think of. Issues involving privacy and confidentiality can be prevented, but in reality it can never be stopped from violating. 

Creativity and New Media

What I did for this blog was create a Memoji. I did my best to create myself in the IOS software of an Apple iphone. These memojis are very cool and fun to do within any form of a conversation through text message. With your memoji once you create a model of yourself you can send different expressions of standard emojis, but with your face. Not only is it you, but you can send the standard emojis given, but create expressions out of them as well. Also, with your memoji you can send animoji. This when you record yourself through these memojis. It is fun way to use new media to foster creativity. It makes text conversations quite funny. 

HW Creativity

In the article "1+1+1=1" by Sasha Frere-Jones gives a perfect example of how media fosters creativity. In the article it talks about a DJ that is creating mashups of different songs. This DJ found different songs that either have the same tempo, same instrumental, and same genre. Because of this the DJ created songs that had a good flow to them. Any form of media can foster any form of creativity. An example can be Do it yourself (DIY) project. People can watch and/or see different things that will inspire them to do the same things or some variation of what has been done. Somebody can be watching a Youtube video of something being built and that person can now want to do the same thing. Because of that media platform it inspired some form of Creativity. Others can do what the DJ did with different songs or others can even make short mashup movies.