The Next New Thing

This may be a little while off but I have envisioned glasses or contact lenses that are connect to the internet and that pull data from social networking sites. So when you are walking down the street you will be above everyone's head there facebook or tweeter name and maybe even some of there recent posts. You will be able to stand in the middle of Google street view on Google maps and see the pics that had been posted. This would be very interesting and I hope something of the sort comes out in the future. 

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Our Class Wiki - So Far

I have not done any wiki work yet. I have been reading on politically related media effects and plan to write about how new media is affecting politics. I plan to do this over the next few weeks. That is really all there is too that so far, wish there was more, but there isn't.

ArcPolitic

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P2P File Sharing

File sharing is the exchange of digital file via the internet. This is something that is innate to the infrastructure of the internet. You cannot have the internet without the sharing of digital data. Data is bits and the internet is simply moving bits of ones and zeros.

PSP File Sharing is the latest evolution in this digital exchange. According to the article "The Bittorent Effect", one third of all internet traffic is exchanged through one PSP application called Bittorrent, and this was back in 2005. This really is crazy if you think about it. There is so much collaboration and exchange of data via the internet through PSP software that any traditional hard forms of media will soon be all but extinct. These programs allow you to pull bits from not only one person, but from hundred or thousands at a time. That way, the file downloads at a much faster rate.

Some examples of PSP software are Bittorrent, Utorrent, and kazaam. They are all widely used and very useful. They are in fact, too useful. This new software threatens whole industries like the movie and music industries. This will soon cause a change in traditional thinking and everything will be online. Then, the government will step in and place new laws and restrictions to the exchange of data on the internet. It may not happen in the next 5 years, but it will happen.

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Privacy & Confidentiality

This is a very interesting topic and can be argued in many ways. I personally believe that many New Media platforms are destroying our privacy on the internet. If you think about traditional social relationships they are actually based on very defined rules. Lets take this class for instance. The class consists of a teacher and students. We speak to each other in a certain way. This is not the way we speak with our parents or friends, but our teacher. Such a relationship is very important and cannot be used within the bounds of another relationship. I could not talk like a teacher to my brother because he would find it odd. With new media, these defined roles can become illegitimate because someone you know will see you in a different role. Then their view of you will be undermined.  

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Advice to Baruch College

If I was hired by Baruch college there would be many New Media technologies I would strive to have Baruch adopt. The foremost of these would be mobile device communication software. This would link all mobile devices together and allow for networking and collaboration. I would also upgrade the wireless signals and speed because these are extreamly slow.


A Baruch networking site would also be fun and entertaining. Clubs could record their meetings and post them or so live streaming meetings which students could view from anywhere. These are a few of the technologies I think would be beneficial.

ArcPolitic

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About My Term Research Paper

I am really happy to have this paper done. It it my last paper of midterms and was the longest in size. I researched "How Video Conferencing is Affecting Communication". I spent a lot of time on Baruch's library looking for references. I found about 6 on there but ended up only using about 4 of them. The rest were from websites I found on google. I wrote the paper of the course of three days. I covered the history of VC technology, the elements of communication, how VC technology is good for the environment and cost effective, how it allows you to communicate anywhere at anytime, and how this technology will allow the expansion of educational opportunities to those who currently do not have them. It has changed how we speak with family members and work associates. It is also going to continue to develop and  expand over time. This was basically the jest of my paper.

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