The Next New Thing

A new type of “new media” would be allowing to expand on the google glasses. Although the google glasses can help use GPS and answer general questions, we can develop a form of glasses that allows for 3D video camera with friends/family or even employers. It can be used for personal needs or business conferences. This may gives us a more realistic touch to seeing visually communicate with someone.  It also saves us time without having to use a computer/internet connection whenever we need to.

Our Class Wiki- So Far

I am planning to contribute to Wiki pertaining to politics that occurred during the election time in November. However, I might like to create a page under fitness and allowing tips on work outs for beginners. I might add youtube links to show fitness gurus that demonstrate the particular workouts that I mention throughout the page.

P2P File Sharing

File sharing is allowing an individual to share files that vary from music, pictures to downloaded documents to known or unknown members of the internet.  P2P file sharing, however, allows multiple computers that are connected through the internet and a P2P program to share files. In The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, it is stated that BitTorrent is a P2P file sharing program that allows for excessive amounts of  downloads  and uploads to occur at once. Other P2P programs include Kazaa and Tunngle.

 

Advice to the College

Brooklyn college currently does use new media through Facebook, Instagram and other outlets. However, I think the best platform to expand college information would be through either Facebook or the Brooklyn college website. First off, the BK administrators should make better use of their power by organizing their events accordingly. Most of the time, we are not informed of an event taking place unless its mentioned in class or posted around the campus. This is not efficient because not everyone will see these posts when they are on campus. There should be more than 1 administrator for Facebook. One administrator can focus on school events, another on schools academic information, and maybe another can focus on the interest of the students needs/concerns.

Another change to better the Brooklyn college would be to update the website. I recall having to spend more than the time required to find what I need and that wasn’t even useful enough that I had to call the college to get more direct information. The homepage should be well organized into different groups which then should be organized into sub groups to direct students to the core of their needs rather than having them go around in circles. Overall, it’s not about starting something new but rather improving what we already have into useful tools for the students.

Privacy & Confidentiality

Throughout the semester, we have discussed in great lengths about new media and it’s influence in different spectrums of our lives. Some of the new media outlets were Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr,etc. On all of these sites, we are the given a settings/privacy option to customize the viewers interest in who sees their posts. However, this does not mean it guarantees 100% privacy for the individual. For example, I remember once going on Forever21.com and adding couple of clothes in my shopping cart and then closing the tab to come back to later. Later that day, I logged into Facebook and the first advertisement I saw on the right side of my page was to my Forever21 website that displayed the clothes that I have viewed earlier that day. It then began happening every time I visited an online site and went back on Facebook. This shows that my privacy in both ends aren’t fully capable of keeping my page fully secure as I would have liked it to.

The idea of privacy and confidentiality are related to new media because they are both intertwined with each other to create a profit for both ends. First off, our personalized site uses our privacy information to provide services that are individualized and more in synced with each of our own needs. It’s a method that gives new media the upper head in always being a step ahead of its users.  Secondly, the sites sells our private information to other businesses to increase their services to the users. It’s almost a cycle where the individual shares its private information on a new media which then gets shared to other new medias to profit off of.

Creativity and New Media

Here is a picture of me from my high school years. My known features were the long hair and glasses.

Using “MyIdol” App from the App Store on my Iphone, I was able to use my picture above and create an 3-D avatar that performs many activities from ballet dancing to  some karate moves.

Click here to see me in action as a zombie. I used the same app and created a short video using my own voice (as a Zombie) and saved it to my iPhone. Then, I transferred the video from my iPhone to YouTube.

 

 

 

 

Creativity

“Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?” by Brooks Barnes shows a clear depiction of how new media can foster creativity. This article focuses on how Disney has continuously let YouTube users do mash ups of editing snippets of animated movies and TV shows. Using Disney property without authorization is clear and obvious stealing that will inevitably lead to any particular video to be deleted by YouTube. However, it seems that parodies and internet mash ups are tolerated by Disney/Nickelodeon as long as its purpose is more towards entertainment that is more creative and expressive of two different ideas into one. Pirating, however, is just plain stealing therefore it is not approved by Disney. However, that same use of content when used in a rap song with Winnie the Pooh or SpongeBob SquarePants can be used for comedic purposes that attracts viewers for the sole purpose of creating laughter rather than invading these private companies content to profit individually. I think it’s quite easy to tell the difference between both ends of the spectrum when Disney reviews these contents. For example, using Winnie the Pooh content for the purpose of showing an episode or scene from that show would be infringement that will get deleted right away. On the other hand, a rap song called “Crank Dat” using Winnie the Pooh visuals leads to the creatively of combining Disney’s property as well as the individuals level of creativeness leads to a more tolerable and enjoyable video for both parties to display to the rest of the world.