The Next New Thing

One new media that I would suggest that does not yet exist is a camera on certain locations where people can take a picture on the spot. My friends and I were talking about this few weeks ago. So how it works is that there will be camera installed in certain locations such as times square, Rockefeller center. People can take a picture by inserting a dollar and then send the picture to their email. they can choose the way they take pictures. I think this will be a great way for people to have a great family picture without bothering other people or making someone in the family take the photo

Our Class Wiki - So Far

I have not wrote anything for the Wiki page. My plan is to write about Sports, specifically about Fantasy Baseball. I already have my research for this topic. I will be writing about how the new media improved the way people can compete in Fantasy Baseball. How fantasy Baseball work. Also, How usage of Fantasy Baseball impacts user's everyday life.

P2P File Sharing

               We hear a lot about File sharing nowadays. But what is it exactly? File sharing is simply transmitting a file from one computer to another. It's a great way to keep in touch with close ones without going through troubles. It's also very efficient for businesses. Just like file sharing, there is something called P2P file sharing. P2P follows the same methods of regular file sharing except it involves digital media sharing such as books, music movies. It makes having entertainment much easier. According to take advantage of P2P, by Jaime King, some examples of P2P file sharing are bulletin board system, coatroom and hotlines. These are just a few article mentions. There are more that people uses

Advice to Baruch College

Some suggestion I would make to use the new media is that reach out to every single students in campus for their support. With more students supporting the new media, It will be meaningful. The new media is useless without it's audience. Another suggestion I would make is that, let people be creative. Let people express their feelings in the new media page. That way the students will be happy and the new media page will be full of positives

Privacy & Confidentiality

Privacy and Confidentiality has been a big discussion of late. Social Networks created strong privacy setting keep our information from reaching other users. However, The social networks are selling our information to other parties to make their profit. Selling information is their leading source of income. This is what new media has come to. Our friends and family might not have information many companies already have enough to pursue our interest. When you sign up for Social media, you give them rights to sell your informations

Creativity and New Media

These are my close friends from High School. We weren't able to take a picture all together so I decided to manually put them into a picture just for a memory. I used a software called Picture Merge Genius to merge couple of pictures all together. It's not the best looking but it helped me create a memory

Creativity

New Media has had many impact on creativity. Back in the days when people didn't have access to technology or weren't able to access information they would need, people weren't able to completely express themselves. Now people can be as creative they want. For example, according to
1 + 1 + 1 = 1, by Sasha Frene Jones,a DJ name Jeremy Brown took apart a two song and created a mashup. He was able to add some of his own instrument sound to two songs from 2 different generation and create an amazing mashup called the "Frontin on Debra. His mashup was well known and it was made available in iTunes. This is one of the many type o creativity that new media has fostered.  People can do whatever they like. There's no boundary. If you have good ideas, you can express it through social media. The resources will always be there