The Next New Thing!

Picture this: Imagine a machine that allows you to lay down to transport you mentally to a virtually simulated world just like ours. In addition, you are able to interact with people virtually designed to behave the same as us. This machine can transport you to places such as Paris, Hawaii, Japan, Argentina, or wherever your vacation goals are located. Physically, your body would remain inside the machine but your mind and body can move in the virtual place you would like to visit. It's like a dream that you can fully control and sign on or off anytime. Multiplayers can be involved if they also have the same machine. A long distance relationship couple can both meet each other in this virtual world and go on dates. Although this might take a long time to develop, with technology constantly improve year by year, our future inventors can come up with this product.

Our Class Contribution- So Far

To contribute t o the class wiki, I have started by editing some grammar and punctuation mistakes under Sports and Investing. I am also doing additional research related to eBay( my term paper) and plan to add Amazon along with it. Also, continuing research on MMORPG games and its effects on our social media and society today.

P2P File Sharing

File sharing is when a person is transmitting a computer data or a file through websites or an application. File that are share can either be shared publicly or privately. Some website and application such as Google Drive and Dropbox allows their users to share documents, videos, files, files, etcs. P2P file sharing is peer-to-peer sharing and its when content is distributed through torrenting, internet or any other media. In the article "Content producer should take advantage of P2P, not fear it, sites like Digg, Slashdot and BoingBoing, as well as host of smaller blogs, all played a part in bringing people into the massive swarm of sharers that helped the film reach more than two million downloads and an estimated 3m viewers. Some well known P2P file sharing would be Pirate Bay and BitTorrent. Users can share files such as textbook pdf, games, movies, tv shows to their peers. 

Privacy and Confidentiality

New media is a great way to connect and share with people in the internet, but there are consequences when it's posted. When posting anything to any social network platform, one should consider their privacy and confidentiality. Revealing any personal information and posting it on the internet can backfire on a person. There were YouTuber's that posted video's of how much they hated on their current jobs and when their company found out about the videos, they were fired. It is always best to double check the privacy settings and be aware of what is being posted on the internet.

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?

My advice for Baruch College is to offer courses that would include Twitter in their syllabus. Like the article we read, "New lesson plan: Temple professor invites students to tweet during class," by Emma Jacobs, Twitter was used in Jordan Shapiro class. This can help big lecture classes and students that are shy to tweet out their question or comment. If a student can not make it to a professor's office hours they can tweet them their concern or direct message them also. 
Another way Baruch can improve by using new media is clubs and different social networks during club hours. Clubs such as people that play the same MMORPGs. People that play the same video games can connect and socialize with each other. Students can connect with each other on a platform that can improve less shyness and more engagement in school's events and activities.

Creativity and New Media

New media fosters creativity in many different ways. I used to play a MMORPG game called Maple Story. The player you create in this virtual world would need to complete tasks/quest and may also party with other virtual players so that they can help you complete the quest faster. As you level increases the environment and quests will get harder. Players get to design their character and pick a "job" based on their stats they chose.




Here are the characters I played in the past. All these characters are unique in a way because of the jobs they are assigned.



Everyone starts off here, where they design their character but it has limitation to their equipments because they start off at level 1.



One of the main towns in the game, Henesys.



This is the Free Market, where other characters would sell rare equipment that they acquired.

Creativity

New media can foster creativity in many different ways. It can range from rap parodies to mashups and leading to YouTube videos. It shows that anyone that anyone's creative content can be shared online as long as they have access to the internet. In the article, "Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?" by Brooks Barnes shows that Disney's has not remove viral mash-ups video of their character's such as Bambi, Simba and Winnie the Pooh doing the "Crank That(Soulja Boy)" due to copyright laws. "Our audiences can creatively mash video from our content as much as as often as they like," on the other side Nickelodeon is allowing Youtuber's to mash-up their content. It takes a lot of creative thinking to actually find a scene from the movie or show to mash up a rap song with.