Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Our Class Wiki - So Far
I haven't started contributing to my wiki yet i but i started my research. I will be contributing to sports. I will be talking about all the sports that impact our american society and how the media affects it. Basketball, Football, Baseball and hockey. New media techniques have caused the sports that we love to change.
P2P File Sharing
File sharing is when information is transferred from one computer to another using the internet. there is another type of file sharing called p2p file sharing. P2P is also known as peer to peer and that is another type of file sharing. It is the sharing of media from peer to peer.
BitTorrent is a type of P2P file sharing. "BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3". (The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, Wired, January 2005) This is an online site that lets download files and it is P2P as well. It is over the internet and accessible to all users.
BitTorrent is a type of P2P file sharing. "BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3". (The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, Wired, January 2005) This is an online site that lets download files and it is P2P as well. It is over the internet and accessible to all users.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Privacy & Confidentiality
With the arrival of new media, our privacy has been deteriorated. Once we post something on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter it is in the system forever. The world wide web is literally world wide. Somebody could save a picture you posted, so even when you delete it, it is still in the system.
We use Facebook to make friends and network, and people can save every single post we make. People blog every single event of their lives and they think since they keep their profile private outsiders won't be able to see what they're saying and what they wearing. Once something is up, its up forever.
Our confidentiality and privacy is decided by what we post. If we don't choose to use new media outlets, we are safe from this
We use Facebook to make friends and network, and people can save every single post we make. People blog every single event of their lives and they think since they keep their profile private outsiders won't be able to see what they're saying and what they wearing. Once something is up, its up forever.
Our confidentiality and privacy is decided by what we post. If we don't choose to use new media outlets, we are safe from this
Advice to Baruch College
Communication between students is difficult, so new media can help bring students together. Baruch can create an app, just for Baruch students, and keep it particular for each class. So whenever you enter a new class, everybody in that class is in a separate group, including the professor. There is a means of communication between classmates and the professor. This makes it easier for group projects, communication between the professor and students, adjustment to the class and making study groups.
This is how new media can make it easier for students to adjust. Students are always having a hard time making friends, this app that is strictly for Baruch students can help in the friend making process as well. It can act as a Facebook type app, where students can vent and other students can comment and relate.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Creativity and New Media
Snapchat has transformed the messaging game by sending pictures instantly. The really cool thing about this is that you can draw on each picture, and this fosters a ton of creativity. My friends and i try to draw things that are current and there is a back and forth on who has the better picture. There are tons of colors and filters that you can use to help you with your masterpiece.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Creativity
New Media is always fostering creativity. This creativity is being used in the music world by regular people who create "mashups". A mashup is a combination of two songs, the vocal of one song and the beat from another.
In 2003, A man by the name of Jeremy Brown created a mashup of a Jay-Z song and a Beck song. These two songs are nothing alike, not even the same genre but New media has allowed us to create this new type of music. This mashup was so creative and catchy that it was commercially available for download on itunes.
Jay-Z made an official mashup using new media with Linkin Park. This was a collaborative album, a mixture of rock and rap. Each artist used their own old individual tracks and out them together.
As you can see, New Media is always fostering creativity.
The New Math of Mashups from The New Yorker Magazine 2005
In 2003, A man by the name of Jeremy Brown created a mashup of a Jay-Z song and a Beck song. These two songs are nothing alike, not even the same genre but New media has allowed us to create this new type of music. This mashup was so creative and catchy that it was commercially available for download on itunes.
Jay-Z made an official mashup using new media with Linkin Park. This was a collaborative album, a mixture of rock and rap. Each artist used their own old individual tracks and out them together.
As you can see, New Media is always fostering creativity.
The New Math of Mashups from The New Yorker Magazine 2005
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds
What is a virtual world? By definition its a is a computer-based online community environment that is designed and shared by individuals so that they can interact in a custom-built, simulated world. They interact with other people by using avatars, which is a three dimensional character.This sounds pretty amazing, and it can be used in a multiple ways.
One way it is being used is in the hospital. There is a given situation such as a black out and the nurses have to perform all the necessary actions to get all the patients what they need. This is a scenario that can happen and when it does the virtual simulated drill will have the nurses prepared for when it does occur. This virtual world can also be used to train medical and nursing students in clinical skills. This makes them prepared for when they have to perform on an actual human being. The cost of each different mannequin is quite expensive, but you cant put a price on an actual human being.
Another way it is being used is by making people spend less money on things they don't need. People are using virtual worlds to create their avatars and buy clothes for them instead of themselves. Crazy right? But statistics have shown, that people who are buying all these clothes for their avatars are spending less money on materialistic goods. This is a means of saving money. People are having a real pleasure when they see their avatar wearing the finest of clothing and jewelry.
The pros of having a virtual world are that it can help you be prepared in certain situations. The cons are that it can consume people and have them live in a screen, which is quite unhealthy.
Virtual worlds can foster creativity like in the example above. They allow people to spend money and customize themselves like they never could. This gives a euphoric feeling. Also it can create new fashion trends.
I believe soon that we will sit in out living rooms all day and be zombies while we do everything in a "virtual world". We would live out our fantasies and not care about how we actually look, but only care about how we look in the "world".
"Avatar II: The Hospital" by Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal, April 13,
No Budget, No Boundaries: It’s the Real You by RUTH LA FERLA, the New York Times, Oct 22, 2009 p. E1. Available
One way it is being used is in the hospital. There is a given situation such as a black out and the nurses have to perform all the necessary actions to get all the patients what they need. This is a scenario that can happen and when it does the virtual simulated drill will have the nurses prepared for when it does occur. This virtual world can also be used to train medical and nursing students in clinical skills. This makes them prepared for when they have to perform on an actual human being. The cost of each different mannequin is quite expensive, but you cant put a price on an actual human being.
Another way it is being used is by making people spend less money on things they don't need. People are using virtual worlds to create their avatars and buy clothes for them instead of themselves. Crazy right? But statistics have shown, that people who are buying all these clothes for their avatars are spending less money on materialistic goods. This is a means of saving money. People are having a real pleasure when they see their avatar wearing the finest of clothing and jewelry.
The pros of having a virtual world are that it can help you be prepared in certain situations. The cons are that it can consume people and have them live in a screen, which is quite unhealthy.
Virtual worlds can foster creativity like in the example above. They allow people to spend money and customize themselves like they never could. This gives a euphoric feeling. Also it can create new fashion trends.
I believe soon that we will sit in out living rooms all day and be zombies while we do everything in a "virtual world". We would live out our fantasies and not care about how we actually look, but only care about how we look in the "world".
"Avatar II: The Hospital" by Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal, April 13,
No Budget, No Boundaries: It’s the Real You by RUTH LA FERLA, the New York Times, Oct 22, 2009 p. E1. Available
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