Wiki So Far

So far on the Wiki, I have been doing my own research before creating/ editing the pages. I've been doing research on New Media on Transportation and how it has changed the way people travel around the world. Just from visiting another state for the weekend, these services became much more effective and efficient than regular taxi cabs. Social media has had its influence on the methods of transportations by allowing users to pay online instead of scrambling for cash, having a concrete solid path to the destination without much error, being able to share with other people and cutting costs by half, and by being able to know who your driver was in case of anything that went wrong, it is an easier way of reporting them. Another page that I have been doing research on is Advertising through Social Media. Celebrities generate most of their income simply by taking photos with products advertising them to their users. For an example, Kim Kardashian can take a photo with vitamins telling her followers that these vitamins have aided her hair growth and made it become stronger. Thus, the company have a target set audience and both parties can benefit from the ease of free social media advertising. Another page has been the Fashion and Social Media page, in which clothing brands such as H&M and Forever21 can create accounts using social media networking sites to share their products with society whether it be on a model or on a celebrity. These networking platforms can really benefit companies in the ease of appearing constantly on the audience's phones. Along with users who truly want to buy from these companies can follow their social media accounts. Thus, these companies can benefit from the target audience. Lastly, the influence of new media on love, in which multiple sites have been created to help users find people that are very compatible.

P2P

File sharing is the public or private sharing of computer data in a network with various levels of access privilege. File sharing basically means sharing files in a network, even if it is in a small local area network. This allows for a number of users to access the same file to read, view, modify, copy, or print it. P2P file sharing stands for peer to peer sharing. It is the process of sharing digital content like electronic books, multimedia through a direct connection between two peers or nodes over the P2P network. This helps of a P2P client software which allows a computer to get connected to a P2P network. The peer that hosts the connection is called a "seed" and the one that downloads it is called a "leech". There are several examples of P2P file sharing such as FileScope, LimeWire, and BitTorrent. LimeWire allowed for users to download their favorite music onto their devices to listen to at anytime they wanted. Another P2P sharing network is BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol for sharing large amounts of data over the internet. BitTorrent has become one of the most actively used file sharing networks. For an example, "If any one of them misses their favorite TV show, no worries. Surely someone has posted it as a "torrent." As for movies, if you can find it at Blockbuster, you can probably find it online somewhere - and use BitTorrent to suck it down," (The Bittorrent Effect). Overall, there are several advantages when using P-2-P file sharing is the incredible speed of downloading files and the free access in doing so. 


The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, Wired, January 2005.

Privacy

There are a lot of issues that can arise when becoming a user of new media such as privacy and confidentiality scares. Nowadays, social media sites ask for private information such as full name, day of birth, address, school location, work place and position, and so much more. The more users open up their world to their followers they are also opening up to unwanted followers and possibly too much information. From a simple Instagram post, of an individual standing in front of their house for a background photo, a hacker could figure out the location of the post and use the picture as help to figure which house is the right house. In other terms, hackers can hack into an individual's private data and steal their identity! They can use their identity for their own malicious desires. For an example, a hacker can use their credit card information to furnish their home, and rack the individual into debt. Users must realize the environment of which they are posting these materials on and understand that no matter what, it is public and can be accessed by anyone. 

Advice

If I were hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the college I would try to implement social media sites such as twitter to create short (yet effective) discussions and even update students on when assignments are due. For an example, an English Professor can tweet out "Final Papers due tomorrow @ 5pm #GoodLuck" It is short and concise but gets the major point across. Twitter could also be used to alert students of when a teacher will miss class, instead of having to find out once they are already at school. Baruch College needs to utilize the real-time sharing factor new media has to offer its customers. Another possible suggestion is for Baruch College to allow the usage of new media such as Skype to enhance class discussions. With connectivity around the world, Baruch College students can discuss materials with a student or professor around the world and engage in an authentic conversation that can not be duplicated in a textbook.