Blog: Next New

In this new digital era, we have the option to buy almost everything online.  I am the kind of person who prefers to buy online rather than in a physical store because it saves me time, transportation and I can do it from the comfort of my home or wherever I am at the moment like on my way to school or work. The only problem I do have with shopping online is when I buy clothes. Most of the time I do not get the right side, or it doesn’t fit me in the way that I would like to. For that reason, I would like to have a platform where you have the option to upload a picture of your whole body, and then the platform allows you to try the clothes on. With that option, you can see out if the clothes fit you, or if you need to get a bigger or smaller size. I think that allowing the customer would prevent a lot of returns or exchanges to the physical store. 

Blog: 2P

According to Wikipedia, File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. A peer-to-peer network allows computer hardware and software to communicate without the need for a server. Peer-to-peer file sharing refers to the distribution of digital media over a P2P network, in which the files are located on individuals' computer and shared with other members of the network, rather than on a centralized server. Some examples of P2P are: Open-source Software, BitTorrent, Air BnB,Uber, Spotify, eBay, Etsy. In the article, Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios, the author provided one of the problems of the P2P which is that the easy access to a pirated video online and make omovie business lost money.

Blog: Wiki So Far

When I first tried to add some information to Wiki, I was confused about how to do it. Since then, I haven't tried to upload anything on the Wiki. However, this is what I am planning to upload in there. 

1. I saw that a lot of users added some famous YouTubers, so I wanted to add another one that I know very well. 

2. Then, I will add to the sports section, how this last Worl Cup use new technology for all the games. 

3. I will add an example from my work experience in section Trust under Accounting in Social Media. 

4. Also, I will add another App to date under the Love section which is only for girls. 

Privacy

In this post, discuss how the issues of privacy and confidentiality are related to new media.

Privacy and confidentiality are one of the significant concerns in new media. In most of the new media, you need to sign in to get access to them where you need to write your basic information. Some of them ask you for more than that such as your credit card information because you need to pay to make reservations in a hotel's, buy tickets to fly or as Amazon where you can buy anything that you can imagine. Most of those platforms give you the option to restrict the information that you can share and with who you can share it. However, with the advancement of technology, some programs and applications are easy to download and let your electronic devices get infected with any virus. Those viruses are used to hack or leak your personal information and steal your identity. For example, last year, Marriot, which is the hotel and conference center, was hacked leading the exposition of information of more than 500 million guests.  Privacy and confidentiality is one aspect that experts are still working on so their users can navigate on the internet with confidence.

Advice

You are hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the College. What are some suggestions you would make using new media?

The Walk-in hours for the undergraduate and orientation department is limited while there are a lot of students who are in need to see an advisor. During the registration period, students spend hours and hours in the waiting room. The orientation department has the option to talk with an advisor online too; however, it is only for 15 min, and you have to be lucky to find a blank spot to make an online appointment. I would like to create a group on Facebook where you can see the advisors available after office hours and also during the weekends. Because no all the students might use Facebook, I could add a section on the Baruch website that offers the same idea. The option to chat with your advisers after office hours and with no limited time. 

Creativity and New Media

I have not realized until I took this class, Principle of New Media that in one of my previous class, CIS 3367, I was using New Media to do more than showing what I have learned in that class. I created a video on YouTube named Miss Dorita's Income Statement where I showed how we could use Excel Tools to create an Income Statement. However, now I can say that with this video I could use New Media to share some of my knowledge to other users who might be interested to learn how to use Excel's business tools. One creative way to share knowledge is by using Social Media on different platforms. In this case, I used YouTube which is a dynamic way to explain something. To create the video that I posted, I used Screencast-o-Matic website which allow me to record what I was doing on a screen. Another aspect that I could do with this video was to promote Miss Dorita's channel adding her channel's name, Facebook page and her picture on my video. At the moment that I create the video, I did not realize that I was using Social Media to promote another channel. With New Media, I can also promote my video on different platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. 

HW Creativity

Social Media is an online platform where you can share and find anything that you can imagine. Social media allows us to give our opinion on any topic, and we can find other people who can have similar thoughts as us or completely different thoughts as us. Social media enhances our creative in the way that we can learn and expand our knowledge when we have to analyze a specific topic to exchange ideas, support our opinions, and debate them. In the article Twitter Serves Up Ideas From its followers, it explains how some Social Media let their users be the creators and let them redesign the platform. Much Social Media let their users be their source of inspiration. For example, Twitter added the @symbol to see every time they are mentioned, and that innovation was thank to one of their users. In the same way, Lego allows their users to create their own Lego design, and then they sell those designs. Also, Social Media is being used to promote brands, so more of the marketers can use those platforms to show the different ways they can advertise their brands.