The Next New Thing

New types of new media are always coming out. the next big new media is going to be a mix of dating app like tinder and app like snapchat. It will have the trying to find someone of tinder and the communication of snapchat this way it makes it easier to talk with new people because you are able to send them pictures to get the conversation started. This will take away from some of the awkwardness of talking to someone new.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

I have not added to the class wiki yet but i have started research, my research is a continuation of research from my paper and the affect of new media and positives and negatives of new media. I've also done research on how new media has affected sports, the way we receive sports information and updates on our favorite teams.

P2P File Sharing

File sharing is the sharing of computer data over a network or internet. Brain Stelter and Brad Stone article Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios states "The campaign failed miserably. By the end of the year, illegal copies of the Batman movie had been downloaded more than seven million times around the world, according to the media measurement firm BigChampagne, turning it into a visible symbol of Hollywood’s helplessness against the growing problem of online video piracy." That was in 2009 and file sharing has only grown since. P2P file sharing is peer to peer file sharing and its the distribution of digital media. Some examples of P2P file sharing are uTorrent and BitTorrent which are two torrent sites that use P2P these two torrenting site give access to many media sources including music, movies, textbooks, etc. File sharing has continued to grow and will only continue to grow over time.

Privacy & Confidentiality

Privacy and Confidentiality go hand and hand with new media. With new media outlets including sites like facebook, linkedin, etc. Our privacy and confidentiality has become less and less, our information including pictures, birthdays, interest, etc. are all out there all over the internet. When we put this kind of information on the web through sites like facebook it makes it possible for people to find our information. Once we post something we should assume its out there and that anyone can see it, thats basically what happens and once you post it often times there is no turning back even when you delete it people could have taken a picture or saved it. What we post determines our privacy and confidentiality.

Advice to Baruch College

Dear Baruch College

Some suggestions for new media would be creating a Baruch social media, on online site that connects you to all Baruch students. This allows you to find other students from Baruch and connect with them and make friends. This Baruch only social media site will help you find people who share the same interests as you do, while knowing that they attend the same school as you. this will also allow to connect with classmates and make it more convenient for everyone. New media has become such a powerful source, it can only continue to increase the positives with connecting to fellow students.

Creativity and New Media

I created my own avatar on http://avachara.com. Which is pretty cool they let design your own avatar and you have full control of what he/she looks like. You can make it look like you or nothing like you its all up to you. Basically you start of by choosing skin color, then facial structure, then you can pick an outfit for your avatar etc. I think it's pretty cool designing an avatar because have full control over how it looks. Its fun seeing at the end how your avatar came out ad how you can change it look many different styles. The screenshot is of an avatar I tired to make look like myself as much I could. 

Creativity

New Media fosters creativity in many ways, one of the many ways are mash-ups in music. Which takes two songs and combines them using the vocals and beats from both songs. Mash-ups take a lot of creativity and work due to the need of two songs on the same key. Sasha Frere-Jones article         " 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 The new math of mashups." talks about Jeremy Brown, a.k.a. DJ Reset took a song named Debra by Beck instrumental and searched for a vocal to go along with it Sasha Frere-Jones "Brown found that an a-cappella of “Frontin’,” a collaboration between the rapper Jay-Z and the producer Pharrell Williams, was approximately in the same key as “Debra.” The two songs are not close in style—“Debra” is a tongue-in-cheek take on seventies soul music, while “Frontin’ ” is hard and shimmering computer music—but the vocalists are doing something similar." New media fostered Brown's creativity in collaborating two songs from completely different genres. This is only one way new media fosters creativity and there are many other ways it does.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/01/10/1-1-1-1