Our Class Wiki - So Far

       When I did my assignment, I used our class wiki. I researched the class wiki at first and I looked at lectures of New Media. After reading all of each lectures, I tried to edit the wiki. I searched New Media in Social Networking that they have detail description, and it helped me a lot when I wrote my term paper.

P2P File Sharing

    

         File sharing is the public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network with various levels of access privilege. While files can easily be shared outside a network, the term file sharing almost always means sharing files in a network, even if in a small local area network. For P2P file sharing is the process of sharing and transferring digital files from one computer to another. P2P file sharing could play an even larger role in your computer activities in the future. It can be an efficient way to share large files with others, such as personal video recordings or large sets of photos. For example, commom P2P examples are Skype, BitTorrent, and Napster. In my opinion, Skype is most famous P2P file sharing that I can send instant messaging and voice communication. According to "Content producers should take advantage of P2P, not fear it," written by NMA staff explained that we should spend time to think what a new media age might look like that its political and social shape might be. Moreover, it will be focus on revenue.  

Privacy & Confidentiality

       

          Nowadays, privacy and confidentiality are big issues in the world because some hackers found our information from Facebook, and they sell the information. Similarly, if celebrities use social media such as Instagram, other people found every single major and minor detail about them, so losing privacy is a side effect of using social media. New Media has a lot of advantage to people. However, I think privacy and confidentiality is too weak for people.

Advice to Baruch College

        
           If  I was hired by Baruch College to use New Media to improve the College, I should advertise college that using digital marketing. I will post about introducing the college on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter to other people who browse colleges to transfer or apply.  Another thing is that I would recommend professors to make lessons like online at least one day. Then, the video which about lessons makes students watch at home.  

Creativity and New Media

I created my avatar from Sims. When I created it, I spent more time than my expectation because Sims wanted to make an avatar specifically. Therefore, I could think about how am I looking like this. I felt like I learn the basics of creativity. I tried to looks like me, but Sims did not have enough appearance about Asian. However, it was a great time that I could aware of my self.

Creativity

      From the article, "Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?" by Brooks Barnes described that the Walt Disney Company bear videos which YouTube user posted the cartoon parody to the song "Crank That." In my opinion, even the user infringe a copyright of the Disney cartoon, it became popular more and more because a lot of people watch the video. After people watching the video, they might be interested in the Disney cartoon. Therefore, the Walt Disney company gain a big issue even though they did not make a lot of efforts to advertise. They were using the effect of new media that both of the Disney and YouTube could became so popular from the user's creativity.

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

        From virtual worlds, people can communicate with gesture, graphical images, and text. Virtual worlds have several types that such as Second Life and The Sims.

        Second Life is what we watched Youtube. From the Youtube "The Office: Second Life is the same", he explained that Second Life is a game, but it did not need to get a score. It was just same as his real life except he was flying. Virtual world can be used such as education and research. People can try new things in virtual worlds because trying new things might be dangerous for people. If we want virtual worlds to foster creativity, we should try to solve the disadvantages of virtual time what we read from our assign reading. After people solve the obstacles about avatars and detail a virtual environment, virtual worlds can be better and same exactly about real world.

         In my opinion, the Virtual worlds will develop more and more. In the future, people might be using virtual reality gear and games consoles to virtual world's games.