Someone Else's Term Project Presentation

The project I would like to talk about is Matthew’s project on Peer to Peer file sharing. In his presentation, the explained the immoral and immoral issues related to peer to peer file sharing. He gave details about who the information is transferred through the files and also why people use this site. The ways he explained the different point of view of people, artists and recording companies was also well prepared. In addition, he clarified how the P2P is related to new media and what is motivation behind the use of P2P. Overall, I found the presentation was well organized and entertaining. I feel he did a decent job with his presentation and the way he set up all the information he shared with us. It was clear, concise and interesting.

The Next New Thing

I do not know what will be the next thing is going to be, but I think maybe if we have an online interview by using some new technology. As far as I think, most people are afraid and get nervous when they go to an interview. Having face to face conversations make us nervous, especially if we having an interview first time. It will be very helpful for applicant if a company uses virtual worlds or some other new media to have first and/or second interview online and after that meet with candidate personally.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

In our class wiki, I am working as contributor for New Media in Entertainment. I added some information about online social networking. The wiki page had little information about online social networking but I felt that was not enough to explain what is mean by. I provided some more information like what social networking offer to individuals and what are some examples of online networks. Also I included information about virtual worlds that it allows users to create avatars of themselves or anything they want to be in virtual worlds. While I was doing the research, I found that the virtual worlds enable a company to do several things so I created a new point about “the need for a corporation”. Corporations can provide a meeting place, engage in v-commerce and build organizational experience in a virtual environment.

About My Term Project

My presentation is about social networking and purposeful loss of privacy. Social networking are sites that individual use to interact and communicate with one another. Individual create an online profile and share the information within the sites. Users post unnecessary information and share too much information on these sites which someone can download and use it however and whenever they want. Also employers are using these sites to learn about prospective employees. Social networking sites provide a privacy statement about the limit of protection but do not guarantee that the information posted on these sites will not viewed by any unauthorized person.
Users should create a limited profile and use the privacy setting, so they have more control on their personal information. Also avoid to post everything online because once its posted online, its public and anyone can access to it now and in the future. Do not add anyone as your friend if you do not know about that person. I think social networking is a great tool to stay in touch with your friends and family but you have to be careful about what you post. Social networks are great fun and can be advantageous but people really need to understand that its complicated world and you need to step wisely.

Privacy and confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are major issues of new media. When it comes to social networking sites, privacy and confidentiality have always been fundamental issue. Facebook is one of the targeted social networks with privacy and confidentiality concerns. People usually post unnecessary information on these sites which can be used against them. New media helps us to be advanced in some ways but we are not aware of the risks that we are putting ourselves into. I think the best way to protect ourselves on social networks is to put as little personal information as possible. Also social networking sites provide security settings, so make sure to use those settings to protect the information you post online. I think we always have to make sure that we do not put anything on internet that we would not want others to know it because anyone can access through Google or other search engines. Be careful when it comes to publishing personal and private information on social networking sites.

Advice to Baruch College

My advice to Baruch College is to starts to utilize new media by including online lecture. In Baruch if you miss the class for some reasons, you are in trouble especially if you have no friend there. I am not saying that student should not come to class. Baruch should keep the attendance policy. It’s only for students who can not come to college for some specific reason and this will be very helpful to all students at Baruch. I think it will be more helpful if Baruch College should have video lecture for some courses like math, accounting, etc. This way student can repeat the lecture and do well in these courses. I believe by doing this Baruch College can improve their students education quality if they use the online lecture through new media.
Also Baruch College has to start the professor’s evaluation online. Why de we have to cut the time from classes and waste paper on professor’s evaluations when it can be easily done online. Baruch College gets the result more quickly about evaluation and the result is also available to students fast.
Last but not least, Baruch has to improve Blackboard. Blackboard is the main platform for Baruch to be in touch with their students and professors also use Blackboard to post the information like power point slides and exams information. But most of the time, Blackboard goes under construction and is unavailable just when students need it.

My New Media Class - So Far

In this class we have viewed many forms of new media. New media technologies include blogs, wikis, twitter, second life, etc. The class notes introduced some technologies that I was not aware of like mashup, twitter and second life. Also I have learned that the new media gives many people an opportunity to communicate on a different level and encourage collaboration and information sharing between users.
The internet plays a great role in new media because it connects people from all over the world. In order for everyone to use new media, they must have access to the internet. Another way that the internet is helping people is through community blogs that can help fight crime like the one mention in the article, “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid”.
New media is enhancing old media with its new technologies. In the past, people watch their shows on the television but now they can watch them online through internet. Now there are many websites like Hulu.com where you can watch your favorite shows the next day if you missed it or even watch the same episode if you like in a few hours after it is broadcast on the television.