The Next New Thing

If i have to suggest new type of new media that would be a social networking site just for Baruch college so that students can easily interact with each other. In addition, this particular social networking site must be mandatory to all the students and professors. Further more, all the assignments and projects should be posted by professors in this site so that student can easily access. Students will also post their assignments and projects in this site to their respective professors page. It will help to reduce the papers that we use for printing. Basically students will use this site as a social networking site and also for academic purpose.

Our Class Wiki- So Far

For our class wiki, i have been working on " How Business is Using Social Networking" topic. I am contributing my ideas in it. I have worked on the section called Disadvantage of social networking Era. I have also write my view about how the employee use social networking sites for recruting. Since my term paper was about Social networking, I gather a lot of information by researching it. I am planning to write more about how business is using social networking in up coming days.

P2P File Sharing

File sharing means sharing files in a network. It allows people to view the same file and allows them to modify,copy or print. P2P File sharing is a system of sharing files between network users without the interference of servers.  Some examples of P2P file sharing are Lime wire, Bittorrent and Kazaa. As in this article,"Valley View: File sharing joins the mainstream", it stated that BitTorrent has made possible the downloading of large files of copyrighted material such as movies and music for millions of users. So P2P file sharing like Bittorent has made easy to those people who love to watch movies in free.

Advice to Baruch

As a new employee to improve the Baruch college by using new media, i would like to use social networking tools.  I wish if the professors can use Facebook to interact with student. Facebook has been so popular among the students. It would be very helpful if professor create a group in Facebook and post discussion topics and assignments. By doing so almost all the students will take a look at it and it would be very beneficial for them.  It also creates strong relationship between professors and students.

Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and  confidentiality has been a great issue related to new media. New media like social networking sites have faced some privacy issues. The social networking sites like Facebook is been a platform for hackers to hack the information. Though Facebook has a privacy setting some people don't use them and got into trouble. In Facebook you can limit your information to your friends only. But some people don't do that and put up their information as viewed by everyone which creates a identity theft and like. Some bad peopl can crop the pictures from Faceook and put up in appropriate websites.

About my term research paper

My research paper topic is Social Networking: A purposeful loss of privacy. I did use internet, articles, newspapers and scholarly articles to research my paper. i found lot of things related to social networking. For instance, now i know that in India traffic officers are using facebook to find out who is violating the traffic law. I learned social networking has played a vital role in people's life. Social networking has been part of everybody's life. For instance, Facebook has now 750 million members. I did research on new media like Facebook, twitter and like.

Creativity

New media has played a vital role in our daily lives. Blogs, social networking sites are some of the new media. I think using blogs make us being creative. You can create your new ideas and post into blog or post it into social networking sites where you can share your new ideas with your friends. Furthermore you get feedback for your creative ideas.  You tube also has played an important role in creativity. People can post their funny home videos, can create their own music and post in you tube.  These websites like youtube helps people to be more creative than ever.

According to the article, “Disney tolerates a Rap parody of its Critters. But why?” it states that YouTube users are using clips of the cartoons and put them in a rap song. It generates more viewers and more feedback. This is how people are being creative using You Tube.