Blog: Wiki So Far

I have done research for my research paper and even looked further into this subject to completely understand it. Social media has a huge impact on our lives and I find it important to understand how it does and to try to stay socially aware of everything. I have tried to add content based on my subject in order to help the class understand the subject as well. Instagram is a very popular application that almost everyone on social media has. Its impact on society can be seen as beneficial and detrimental. It is in fact both and this shines through when you actually relate it to your own life. I use Instagram as mainly as way to track events that I've been through, but have noticed the effects its also had on my life. I try to record a lot of things to put on my profile rather than actually be there in the moment. Experiencing things is completely different to how it was even only 10 years ago. New media has significantly impacted our lives and it is important to understand how.

Blog: P2P

File sharing is the ability to transmit files through local networks or wide area networks such as the internet. It is important to understand because this is how everything is done online nowadays. File sharing can help in ways ranging from making more efficient business practices to being able to get accurate news within seconds of an event happening. P2P file sharing is how media is shared through "peer-to-peer" networking technology. An example of this might be playing video games on LAN server when there is no internet or when a friend is in the same room as you. It could even be transferring eBooks, movies, or music. I would be able to potentially stream a movie from Netflix using this type of technology, read a book from Scribd or even download music from Spotify to help me study one day. One problem that emerges though is the "growing problem of privacy, which the American entertainment industry says accuonts for the loss of $20 billion a year in sales." With every process brought to the public also brings a way to make money out of it. Because of this, there are services that charge users for eBooks, streaming services or even video game memberships. As a result, people try to get around this and end up pirating these services in illegal ways. This article states how this has become a problem with allowing web access to users.




Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?

Blog: Privacy

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

With new media, we see an emergence of hordes of data that people on the internet have access to. There are many positives with new media but this is one of the negatives that everyone sees when they come into contact with social media. Our information is not private and this is what people have warned us about for the past few years. There is a politician named Jon Ossoff who is running in an election, but the other campaigns have tried to put him in a bad light where they defame him using old clips of himself that they found on social media. It is said that his new type of warfare in politics shows how much new media plays a part in our everyday lives whether we know it or not. I believe that privacy should be something that is regulated very closely. Most recently, there was the Zuckerberg incident where millions of account's information was leaked from the Facebook website. However, old politicans did not know how to handle this matter as it was a different era from how they grew up in and could not try to penalize him for this scandal. People have their everyday information readily available online and do not realize how much of an impact this can have on their lives. 

Blog: Advice

I think that having such an active school requires the school to have an active social and new media presence. I think that some of the biggest systems that the school can improve upon include the cunyfirst, cunyportal and the overall social media layout. Cunyfirst is constantly down and is very hard to navigate. Creating an online application that works would be ideal to help students check their finances or statuses online on the run. Just this week, it was very hard to try to pick classes because people had theirs scheduled but the website itself was down. Cunyportal is very slow as a website and has a lot of useless content on it. A lot of professors use their own websites to teach their students or don't utilize cunyportal to what it could actually do. Social Media from Baruch is also very bad in the sense that no one is ever really kept in touch with what is going on campus. There was a moment when we had to receive the news of school being cancelled from the snow by the mayor on the news because a lot of students do not check the website or our emails since most of the information coming from there is usually spam and we tend to ignore it.