Next New

Suggest a new type of "new media" that doesn't currently exist. Describe it.

I suggest a new type of New Media called "CLASS". CLASS promotes networking between classmates and professors. Anyone can access CLASS with verified student code. It's free to use and also application (Android and ISO) versions are available as well. This will lead encouraging better communication in classes, and easier grouping for class projects among students than traditional ways

The form of New Media is Web-based-system, using basic web browsing. Mentioned earlier, it also support the application systems. Both of web page and application, users can share thoughts and ideas via chatting room, idea board, and study room. In conclusion, it is an ideal new media for education to avoid a lack of communication and to foster a better class environment. I'd like to work on this new type of New Media further more. 

Wiki So Far

Create a new post on your blog with the above title. In your post, discuss the following.

...what you have been doing to contribute to our class wiki. Pages you have created and/or edited. Describe in general terms content you have added. If you have not added any content yet, then at least describe the research you have done and what you are working on towards this goal.

I am working on a Wiki page for cloud computing system. Description of cloud computing: Cloud computing is computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid. I plan to research on the cloud computing system to add  another category on our Wiki page.

P2P

The file sharing is to transmit files from one computer to another over a network or internet. These days, many people share their own files through the internet. In recent years, companies like Dropbox or Google have developed the cloud computing system to make transfer easier than ever before.

The P2P file sharing is an abbreviation for Peer-to-Peer file sharing. It allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content. The peers of such networks are end-user computer systems that are interconnected via the Internet.

For example, torrent is well-known P2P file sharing according to the article in WIRED Magazine, it reports Bram Cohen who is the creator of BitTorrent, one of the most successful peer-to-peer programs ever about 150,000 users a day. BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3. In the article, Bram said “The more files you're willing to share, the faster any individual torrent downloads to your computer”. This can be pros and cons of the torrent since the speed of downloads varies depending on the number of peers (ThompsonClive, 2005).

Works Cited

Thompson, C. (2005, January). The BitTorrent Effect. Retrieved from WIRED: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html

 

Privacy

Privacy related to New Media is one of the popular issues in these days. Privacy is level of protection available to all data and information that a person enters a social network, in the degree of accessibility to them than other Internet users or may have. So the providers such as Facebook provide the services like privacy Settings which the users are able to decide what they wants to share with other users. Risks are being caused by fake profiles, impersonation and access to information from minors. The results could be, for example, people who were robbed while they were in enjoying holidays (Credit card hacking - licked personal information). Secondly, workers who commented on their heads improperly (level of privacy). Lastly, couples who discover infidelity (caused by cyber dating). 

Advice

I'd suggest that, by using the Social Networking Services of New Media, the college would be able to promote the reputation and ranks of the college as well. Facebook page, Instagram, twitter, and etc will bring out more information to other people who are outside of Baruch. In addition, Baruch college should improve on their New Media related classes since the subject, New Media, becomes much important than before and essential in our daily life. For example, the college should provide New Media as a major subject. I believe they currently provide the New Media subject as only a minor program. However, if the college support the major program of New Media, not only students have more choices on their majoring, but also the college will have benefits such as reinforcement of the technology side. Eventually, the Baruch community will have beneficial effects on economic side by hiring more professors and staffs in related fields.

CREATIVTY

Being creative is such a key factor in any fields or industries to evolve to the next level. The new media has been developed in many different type of forms. For example, twitter bring up all the new markets by using the hashtag functions. I believe it is one of the strong point of twitter and has lots of potential to discover creativity in terms of expanding hidden market that we haven’t found out. Retweet function also makes the tweeting exciting and it will provide variety of information into the twitter communities. From the transactions, the twitter will be able to algorithms that have infinitive possibility to expand the creativity such as medical industries being able to develop and aid vaccines for areas or countries where need for. Likewise, the creativity with new media has no boundaries to expand into the real world.

Creativity and New Media

This is a new social media called "Learning New Language"(LTW). Once you select your language as input and output you want to speak with, the social website will automatically find a conversation partner in a chatting window. It will provide an auto-translate function and you can learn and make friends spontaneously. People can not only share pictures and files over the social website, they can but also save the conversation record in their social networking sites or something. This will be a new type of social media that can lead building up variety of social relationships, communities and educational purpose genre.