What I realized about television is that TV was not
really developed a lot when it comes to “interaction”. We can have social interaction
by using computers and phones. On the other hand, television still stays in a
one-way system. Information is delivered only from producers to viewers. I am
expecting the one-way relationship to be a two-way relationship in the future
by adding a new technology. For example, if a live-chatting system is adopted
while viewers watch TV shows, the viewers can discuss about what will happen in
the TV show they are watching or share feedbacks about the TV shows with
producers or writers right away.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
The Next New Thing
Modern
society's new media is usually involved in computers or smart phones which we
are using and carrying all the time. However, there is one more device we live
with on a daily basis but most of people forget about. It is television.
Even though new technology allowed us to watch TV shows on the internet, most
of people still wait for their favorite TV shows’ new seasons and would like to
watch them on television.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Our class wiki so far..
I have not contributed to our class wiki yet so I will just
describe what I have done on my research paper. My research paper’s topic was “loss
of privacy and social networking”. When it comes to social networks, the
privacy problem becomes a serious issue in our modern society. I basically stated the significance of the
problem and several types of social networks in my introduction. And I
categorized the issues by three aspects; generally, economically, and morally.
In the economic aspect, I used some articles related to loss of privacy at work
and how it can affect employees at work. Also I mentioned about increasing cyber
crime costs. In moral issue, I used scholarly article which is about
participatory surveillance. Also, I stated responsibility issue caused from
loss of privacy on social networking. Since I researched about privacy issue, I
am planning to contribute about this topic on our class wiki under Privacy
section.
P2P File Sharing
File sharing is basically the practice of distributing or providing
access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio,
images and video), documents or electronic books.
In IT society, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing has become popular for the
Internet users who want to share information by uploading and downloading.
BitTorrent
and The Pirate Bay are the most successful peer-to-peer programs which let
users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are
hundreds of thousands of times bigger than a single MP3. Back then when people
just started having an idea of P2P system, Napster was popular. However, it was
usually used just for the free videos and television shows. Unlike Napster, people
can be connected to the communities in the BitTorrent for the purpose of
sharing information between like-minded thinkers to share their passion, such
as politics and science.
Citation
Choi, David Y; Perez, Arturo. Online piracy and the emergence of new business models (Conference Paper). USASBE/SBI 2006 Joint Conference Proceedings. Tucson, AZ. ed. Toombs, Leslie A. 2006. http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/research/usasbe/2006/pdffiles/papers/cases/016.pdf
Monday, November 11, 2013
Privacy & Confidentiality
Nowadays, almost everyone is involved in new media such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or LinkedIn if they know how to deal with internet.
People find their old friends and keep in touch with them or find jobs by using
these social networking sites. However, it seems like people give up their
personal information so easily just to join social networking sites on the internet. They put their real information like their address, phone numbers, birthdays etc, but one important fact they easily forget is that identity thieves, scam artists, debt collectors, stalkers, cyber criminals and
corporations seeking for a market advantage are using social networks to
collect various data from the users of the websites.
This issue causes another serious problem "Confidentiality". Users who put their real information usually trust the websites they use, but the employees who work for the websites' system might get tempted to sell the users' personal information to others. And this is the starting point where you get all spam text messages and advertising emails from random people or companies. However, it's not something that we can always avoid by not putting our real information. A lot of websites make us to put our phone numbers or emails to send us confirmation codes. It is mandatory for people who want to join the websites these days. Now, who is going to take the responsibility of privacy issue became everyone's homework. The users? the companies(websites)? or the government?
This issue causes another serious problem "Confidentiality". Users who put their real information usually trust the websites they use, but the employees who work for the websites' system might get tempted to sell the users' personal information to others. And this is the starting point where you get all spam text messages and advertising emails from random people or companies. However, it's not something that we can always avoid by not putting our real information. A lot of websites make us to put our phone numbers or emails to send us confirmation codes. It is mandatory for people who want to join the websites these days. Now, who is going to take the responsibility of privacy issue became everyone's homework. The users? the companies(websites)? or the government?
Advice to Baruch College
First of all, I would suggest to make a better version of Baruch college app for smart phones. Baruch College already has an app where students and faculties can get some information regarding to school such as calendar, news, course catalog etc. However, most of students don't even know about this app. It looks simple and has core information about school system, but it's just pretty much same as the Baruch College website. I would like to make this app better and more useful for students by adding some systems.
I will make this app available to put students' current courses they are taking and this system will be connected to blackboard, so that students can be informed when their classes are canceled or they can check new posts on the course blackboard without logging on blackboard on computer every time. Of course, this proposal needs another system which is alert. It is kind of annoying to go check website's calendar every time I am not sure if the school is closed or not like today. Today was a veterans' day and I expected to have no school since it is national holiday, but the school was open and I took some time to check if the school was open on the website. Also, this alert system will be helpful to inform students and faculties when the school has to close due to unexpected heavy snow or tornado.
There is another section called "People" on this app. When I clicked, there was nothing that I can do with. I can make this section to chat with classmates in a casual way. Students can have a short discussion about their projects by using this app.
I will make this app available to put students' current courses they are taking and this system will be connected to blackboard, so that students can be informed when their classes are canceled or they can check new posts on the course blackboard without logging on blackboard on computer every time. Of course, this proposal needs another system which is alert. It is kind of annoying to go check website's calendar every time I am not sure if the school is closed or not like today. Today was a veterans' day and I expected to have no school since it is national holiday, but the school was open and I took some time to check if the school was open on the website. Also, this alert system will be helpful to inform students and faculties when the school has to close due to unexpected heavy snow or tornado.
There is another section called "People" on this app. When I clicked, there was nothing that I can do with. I can make this section to chat with classmates in a casual way. Students can have a short discussion about their projects by using this app.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Creativity and New Media
I also used the app "Bitstrips" which is a new app and able to be connected to Facebook. People can create an avatar with this app and make their own cartoons to express their emotions or status. This app looks good by itself, but I want to add some more new technologies on this and make it better in a functional way.
Since Myspace has fallen in the social networking industry, I want to suggest them to apply this kind of app on Myspace. The best thing about Myspace is that people can share their favorite music. So, this app will work better with the code "music" on Myspace. The new app will allow users create their avatars and express their feelings not only with cartoons but also with musics that they want to share in order to show others how they are feeling at that moment.
Since Myspace has fallen in the social networking industry, I want to suggest them to apply this kind of app on Myspace. The best thing about Myspace is that people can share their favorite music. So, this app will work better with the code "music" on Myspace. The new app will allow users create their avatars and express their feelings not only with cartoons but also with musics that they want to share in order to show others how they are feeling at that moment.
Creativity
New media technologies are thought to be significant tools for enabling creativity and
innovation. When we had only traditional media technologies (analogue), there were some limitations of possibilities because the traditional media was usually based on one way system. However, as the technologies improved a lot, the system started having mutual interaction from one way. People started share their new ideas in more convenient way and they became main producers to make the new media technologies better. The New York Times article titled "Twitter Serves up Ideas from Its Followers" shows that how the users in new media are important and became innovators for new technologies. In the article, economists have long thought that producers — the people making products and running companies — are naturally the ones coming up with new ideas, Professor von Hippel said. In fact, he said, consumers often come up with ideas for products, and companies wait on the sidelines to see if they have mass appeal.
innovation. When we had only traditional media technologies (analogue), there were some limitations of possibilities because the traditional media was usually based on one way system. However, as the technologies improved a lot, the system started having mutual interaction from one way. People started share their new ideas in more convenient way and they became main producers to make the new media technologies better. The New York Times article titled "Twitter Serves up Ideas from Its Followers" shows that how the users in new media are important and became innovators for new technologies. In the article, economists have long thought that producers — the people making products and running companies — are naturally the ones coming up with new ideas, Professor von Hippel said. In fact, he said, consumers often come up with ideas for products, and companies wait on the sidelines to see if they have mass appeal.
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