The Next New Thing

 Alibaba's Taobao announced they will using virtual reality technology to make a new way to shop online in China. I think it is a "new media" coming soon. Consumers can wear special goggles to break time and space contstraints to casually stroll around the mall in the world. They can try all kinds of goods by using VR technology to restore the real scene when they shopping. For example, when you are at home, after wearing special goggles to enter Taobao website, you can choose to go to New York's fifth Avenue or you can choose the British retro market. Additionally, when consumers choose a sofa in a virtual environment, but you can see directly sofa at home, and look at the size of the color is appropriate.When I hear this announcement, I felt unbelievable. However, I believe the stronger technology, the more newly media coming.

Wiki so far

I have not do my contributes on Wiki yet. I am plannig to do research the topic of Psychology, because I am interested in what people think through their deep thoughts. And I will edit classmates' contributes pages  what I like too. After I finish my research, I will post the some interesting Youtube Video and some stories.

P2P file sharing

File Sharing is that users can sharing computer data and information through network no matter in public or private. File sharing allows people to use same files that can be able to read or edit it. 

P2P file sharing is peer to peer file sharing which can access media files like book, movie through by third party or software programs. There are many examples of P2P file sharing, such as Tribler, BitTorrent.. For example, in the article" Peers find less pressure borrowing from each other". Google is teaming up with the nation's largest peer-to-peer lender. 

Privacy & Confidentiality

Social new media make teenagers’ ability to communicate with people in real life deteriorated. At the same time, they expose teenagers’ privacy. For example, data show Facebook's privacy options put teenagers at risk. According to the radio podcast at Sophos, ninety three percent of Facebook users prefer its privacy options to be opt-in rather than opt-out. Forty six percent of the users accepted strangers’ friend requests. Eight nine percent of the users in their twenties posted their full birthday. Almost a hundred percent of the users posted their email addresses. Those kinds of settings put Facebook users in a position that will easily expose their identities. Anyone can easily be friends with others via Facebook and know them more by the information posted on Facebook. The information sharing in social networking is all public. In a class project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009, “Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree analyzed more than 4,000 Facebook profiles of students, including links to friends who said they were gay. The pair was able to predict, with 78 percent accuracy, whether a profile belonged to a gay male” (Lohr P. A1). With this powerful data mining, there is no privacy on social networking sites. Once teenagers’ privacy is at risk, their safety is at risk as well. Offenders can easily use this technique to get closer to teenage users, and the teenagers’ safety is in danger because of the exposed information on social networking sites.

Advice to Baruch College

 Now, most of teachers and students at Baruch College use Blackboard and student email to communicate with each others. So firstly I recommend that improving using Twitter account. Because   I learn more about the useful of Twitter from this class, and Twitter is a great platform for collaborate and communicate thoughts and idea with each other. Another new media I want to improve is using mobile application to access the Baruch events and include the any action tools about Baruch and CUNY first. I think it is more convenient for students.

Creativity and New Media

New media foster creativity and make virtual world for persons. It is my fist time to touch virtual world, and I use second life to build a scape I really want to be. The following picture is my favorite looks and flying in the flowers. Entering in second life, I have to choose a character and a destination I really want to but in real life I couldn't. Through new media's creativity, many things would be real in the mind.

Creavitity

New media provides a great platform to improve people imagination and creativity. New media foster creativity and help business to build their beneficial strategy. In the article, "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers", it states that companies use Twitter to get their customers feedback. Companies can improve their weakness and keep their strengths so that build higher profit. As we can see, new media foster creativity and not limit people thoughts. And make impossible ideas become real change.