Next New

The new type of new media that I would suggest is a relationship vending app. By definition, we can enjoy different kinds of relationship from buying its services, for example mother and son, father and son, girlfriend and boyfriend. How this work? Register members can select different relationship packages and actors from the app, and whoever is selected has the right to agree or reject, but two sides must finish their obligations until the contract is over after compromises are made. Through using this app, we can make more peers or friends that have same background and interests to register members. Moreover, register members can be selected by other register members. So, people could easily help each other out if they are struggling of their studies or lives through using this app. Ideally, it could be applied to college students, because college students are having tremendous stress, so they could release their stress through using this app by meeting their best helpers. Overall, this app could spread positive energy to people, because make people who suffer from lioness feel better. The reason that people suffer because they don’t have anyone to listen and solve problem for them. Therefore, this app could help people who suffer from depression or anxiety. The slogan for this app would be “There’s always people to help”. Lastly, to make this app better, the system must exam the authenticity of each register member. So, it could be easily detected fraud and protect each of the register member.

Wiki So Far

I am doing research on retail and new media. I want to write about the history of a clothing company, Uniqlo. I worked for it before, and now I keep buying clothes and accessories from them. The reason of why people like its stuff because it offers good quality products with affordable price. We could purchase their stuff through their web page, or the app. It sends notification whenever they have the new styles, special promotion, and final sale. Also, I am looking for another subject content to add on as well. Lastly, I am also interest on the new media in web design.  

P2P

File sharing is a convenient way that we can distribute and share digital media by using internet. P2P file sharing is a way that peer can share file to another peer via internet platform, for example, BitTorrent, Dropbox, and Google Drive.  According to the “Digital Rights Management” on Wikipedia, that we can share various of media, for example; music, photos, videos, games, and electronic books, and the copyright of these media are regulated by DRM technology. In the article states that “an e-book reader or e-reader app typically use DRM technology to limit copying, printing, and sharing of e-books. E-books are usually limited to be used on a limited number of reading devices, and some e-publishers prevent any copying or printing.” 

Privacy

New media changes our lives significantly, especially to our privacy.  Much of our privacy are exposed by different social networking sites in today's digital age. It is not just affecting to ourselves personally, but it's also affecting to our family and friends. According to the article "Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations" by Daniel Reed, that talks about the ownership of a photo from family union gathering.  It is hard to argue who owns the right to these photos, because whoever in the photo is participating in the photo, including the photographer. They are having the right of these photos. So, our privacy is vague because whoever participated in the event could share the right to distribute the content of someone who also participated in the event. On the other hand, our credit card information could potential at risk while we are using new media. According to the article, "Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach" by Dora Kerr, talks about Target, a retail company leaking numerous customer's bank information, which they need to implement a new program that costs approximately $100 million. By doing this, hopefully can secure the transaction and keep customer's information confidential. 

Advice

First of all, I would suggest Baruch College to create a social networking page. So we can meet and make more friends through the social networking pages. In addition, we can easily contact to our professors if we can develop this network. On the other hand, we could also establish a forum that specifically for students to comment to their classes, but everything will be confidential. In this case, we have more information of understanding the class that we will be taking in the future, and avoid of much hesitation of selecting classes for most students. Lastly, hopefully we can have a website that record the lecture, so we can review it when we miss class, or use it to review for the midterm and the final. Overall, my suggestions are to use social media to foster connectivity within campus.

Creativity and New Media

This is me using the Snapchat. It is very funny animation and easy for anyone to use it to have different costumes.  It is in a form of video, but I just take a screen shot of it. Happy Halloween!

HW Creativity

New media foster creativity in a way of having feedback from the audiences or the receivers. According to the book, Creators, Audiences, and New Media: Creativity in an Interactive Environment by Isaac Bell talks about the interaction between the creator and the audiences are essential for the development of creativity. He states that "attention is also paid to the different kinds of value for creativity and interaction established by [freedom]. In this book talks about, "online creators deal with the difference between traditional and new media versions of success and integrate digital tools and distribution to find creative fulfillment", in other words which online creator have more freedom when they available to the from using new media because in that way these creator could be easy and efficient to access to the the feedback and to reach the audiences.