Blog: Wiki So Far

I have not contributed anything to our class wiki yet however, I will be looking forward to adding content under "News" since I did my term paper on print and online newspaper. My goal is to research deeper into details and concentrate on news and the perspectives of the people who uses this type of media.  

Blog: P2P

        In "Digital rights management", the website stated that illegal file sharing is to make downloading easy and cheap. The concept of easy and cheap may cost you viruses that can be attached to the illegal file sharing website. File sharing is the practice of sharing or offering access to digital information or resources, including documents, audio clips, videos, graphics, computer programs, images and e-books. It's a service thats multipurpose that has evolved from removable media from network protocols, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP).  Operating systems also provide file-sharing methods, such as network file sharing (NFS). One of the most popular, but controversial, method of file sharing is called peer to peer or P2P file sharing because of the use of peer-to-peer software. P2P also allows users to directly access, download and edit files. It allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program. There are times third-party software whom facilitates P2P sharing by collecting and segmenting large files into more compartmented pieces. Examples of P2P file sharing would be BitTorrent, Gnutella and DC++.     

Blog: 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? 

If I was hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the College, I would suggest an idea relating to marketing. I would develop an app, in this given example I would just call it “BCText”. BCText will be an application that would be distributed to the Freshmen who first enter Baruch College. It will be a mandatory application they will have to sign so they can get into the system. Basically, BCText is an application that allows students to access all of needed textbooks, books, texts, articles that are given by professors within that school. You can easily type in the professors name and lists of texts from that specific professor would show up. It’s easy, convenient, and helpful. If everyone signed up for it, the cost of texts, textbooks, books, and articles would be a lot cheaper. 

Blog: Privacy

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

New media is a growing source that is convenient to everyone because of the speed of technology that’s taking over the globe. Information can travel at the speed of light, which makes it easy for security to protect sensitive information. People who are intelligent enough can use available fast technology and resources to hack into systems such as credit card companies. In the article “Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach”, by Dara Kerr, she talked about the company target who works hard on security to protect credit card users. They said that credit cards with credits that encrypt personal information are harder to hack. It’s clear to say that  if you have a credit card, try to change it to a card with a chip to prevent yourself from being hacked.