Blog: Next New

One of the new media can be created is creating a social media platform just like Twitter or Instagram, but it can only allow a comment that is positive. This social media platform can be called "PositiveA" standing for positiive for all people who are using this. This platform only allows the user to comment and praise for the other's positive side. No one will be allowed to post any negative or hateful comments or posts. This site is for those who are having a hard time in life to find something positive to look forward to. Also, a site where people find a place of belonging and happiness. Everyone on this platform will help one another by giving advice and encouragement. This can be a site to help save many to find comforts in life. In modern society, all social media platforms are filled with negativities and hate comments. It is extremely toxic. PostitveA will provide a peaceful, loving and positive environment for users to belong to. Nothing is better than receiving encouragement and love from others when he/she needed the most.

Blog: Wiki So Far

In the class Wiki, I had done some revision on some of the contents. I did some grammar correction and sentence structures. I have edited the Mass Media page on our class wiki. I also added a picture of the new media contents. I added a picture with all of the social media.

I did not add any new content towards our wiki page. This is what I will be focusing on throughout this week and next week. I think I will add new content in the Mass Media page to better relate to our class topic. This can be the influence of Mass Media. Also, I would like to add new content to the sports wiki. This is related to my term paper. I will talk about the Advantage and disadvantage of using social media in the NBA and its impact of its players.

Blog: P2P

File sharing is the transmits of the file to one or more people. It means that a person wants to share what he has across the internet and across by hand. It can be a document, a paper, music file or a written essay file. File sharing is what you have and share it with someone else.

P2P stands for peer to peer. It meant for giving something that a person has to another person. P2P file can be physically transfers of file or electrically. It happens when one person to share a file with someone else. The person can either physically handout the copy of the file, or he can also transmit the file through social media, email, downloads or websites. There are unlimited amounts of ways to share a file with today's technology.

One of the examples of P2P is lending a loan. According to the article "Peers find less pressure borrowing from each other" by Wendy Kaufman, it stated that in more recent days, it is harder to get a loan from the bank even if you have a good credit history. However, there is a new type of loan in the modern days. Where third party agent will get investors to provide loan to those who needed. This is an example of P2P, the loan is not provided by an agency or bank, but it is through another peer or person. It will have less restriction and limitation. It will have less interest rate for the loan. 

Citation 

Kaufman, Wendy. “Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other.” NPR, NPR, 10 May 2013, www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/05/10/182651552/peers-find-less-pressure-borrowing-from-each-other.

Blog: Privacy

In today's world, internet security is one of the main concern. The reason for this is that almost everyone in the world was able to use the internet, and the internet can lead to different media platforms. And social media platforms are extremely vulnerable to a different security threat, like privacy and confidentiality. Hackers can use worms or virus to get access to your social media accounts and eventually find out about your name, date of birth and even address. Privacy and confidentiality are extremely hard to protect due to the high level of technology that we have today. Social media platforms can be an easy way for a hacker to get hold of your personal information and eventually take advantage of it. Either expose your identity through online or even identity theft. New Media had help hacker's to find a target more easily and giving hackers a platform to penetrate the privacy and confidentiality.

Blog: Advice

Baruch College should expand its social media platforms. Not just on Facebook, which I see it regularly. It should be expanded from Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. Also, on Facebook, the follower of Baruch College FB page is not as high as I would expect it to be. Baruch College needs to get more followers and should post some different news daily. It is all about constancy and patient. Baruch College needs to use more of the flashing side of the Social Media Platforms. Should use more color picture and funny picture. Baruch College social media is extremely boring. It is lacking life and enjoyment. Which made Baruch College less fun.

Creativity and New Media

I have created an avatar in Second Life. This avatar does not represent or looks like me. This avatar was created through my imagination and creativity. I used this Second life platform to create an avatar with blue hair, small eyes, and a scar on the face. During this Second Life platform, I can use my creativity to create an avatar that I wanted to use. Through this platform, I can create an avatar that myself believe it was something that represents what I like. It lets me determine the type of hair, face, eyes, and colors of this avatar. It will also let me determine whether I want to display my avatar as a male or female. This let me explore a Second Life, a life that maybe deep down is who I wanted to be.

HW Creativity

New Media is a brand new way to foster creativity. During new media, anything can be accessed much easier and much more conveniently. Since new media can turn something from plain paper to digital, it provides opportunities for others to access that digital from frequently and modify that digital data easily. Anything can be accessed through digital can be modified and change much easier than plain paper. With easy access and modification, it means that anyone can express their idea and creativity on to that digital data. Like in the article "Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of its Critters, By Why?" by Brooks Barnes. In this article, it stated that there is a YouTube video where someone turned Bambi, Simba, and Winnie the Pooh into rap stars. This is something new, something that had never happened before. It was a brand new creative way of playing as Bambi, Simba, and Winnie the Pooh. Without new media, no one can have a voice over this Disney video. We will never see a rapping Disney video. Anything new is creative. No matter what the outcome will be. With YouTube, many people can have the opportunity to express their creativity for others to see. It is a gateway for others to access the opportunity that they never had before.

Citation
Barnes, Brooks. “Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 24 Sept. 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/media/24crank.html.