Next New

The next new media could be having all these electronics out today such as a smartphone or a tablet embodied into our own human system. Just as how new technologies appear in movies, one of these features includes holographic. Although we already have holographic, it is nothing like what is shown in the movies such as Black Panther and Iron Man where characters name Shuri and Tony Stark uses the hologram to help them do their scientific research. Microsoft has made something similar called "holoporation" which allows consumers to project a full-body likeness into a remote location. But this technology is far away from being sold commercially. When we have the holographic technology ready to use, some of the advantages are storing an unthinkable amount of information and data,  using as a tool for visualizing patient data while training students and surgeons and being complex optical device and difficult to make will make an incredible commercial security market and many more advantages. I believe with the works that have already been done, holographic will eventually enter into the mainstream as how smartphones and laptops have entered into our lives.

Wiki So Far

I have not added any content yet, but I was doing research in relation to cloud computing. I have been looking into Aliyun, which is the Chinese platform of cloud computing that came from the famous company Alibaba. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both its international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem. In January 2017, Alibaba Cloud became the official Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee. On the cloud computing page only consists of firms in the States, so I would like to bring some diversity in this platform from other countries.

P2P

File sharing is the ability to transmit files including documents, multimedia and graphics and many more from one computer to another over a network or the internet. File sharing has always been debated whether it should be done or not, especially by the production studios and music labels. "Using a search engine, anyone can find free copies of movies, still in theaters, in a matter of minutes" (New York Times). P2P file sharing is the process of sharing digital content like electronic books, multimedia through a direct connection between two peers or nodes over the P2P network. An example of a P2P file-sharing platform is BearShare. BearShare lets one finds, downloads, shares, and publishes audio and video files. It lets the users to quickly locate and download any type of file available on the P2P network. 

Reference:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05piracy.html

Advice

If I was hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the college, I would make some suggestions such as providing better communications system and a better mobile view with school websites. I would first provide a better communications system by have a 24/7 automated response regarding the frequently asked questions that can be easily solved so we would not lose the time to try to reach to a representative. For the questions that may need further assistance then are proceeded to an online chat. Usually by online chatting most probably would have been solved, if not, then they can make an appointment to meet in person.

The second thing that I would improve is that mobile device’s view of the school website, whether it is the home page or blackboard. These websites seem to not fit the mobile devices size and it is difficult to navigate the web with the unfitted screen.

Privacy

Protecting personal information security is one of the important factors when one is surfing the web nowadays. With the beginning of the new media era, whatever one posts on the internet will remain on the internet forever even if he or she deletes it later on. With such public and social advancements, the privacy and securities policies and constantly being updated. These social networks can help individuals create a public or a private account for others to see. The government and tech companies spend billions to try to protect their citizens and their customers’ information private. Hackers are able to hack and get sensitive information and create an identity theft, which can cause serious damage to the person. It is important to stay on top of your own belongings which can be more than physical objects, but with social media accounts, social security numbers and etcetera.

Creativity and New Media

This is an avatar I use on my iPhone with iMessage, it is able to capture my facial expression and it is a lot of fun using this feature.

Creativity

With the emergence of new media, people are able to express their creativities to the rest of the world via platforms like YouTube, and other people can put in their thoughts and potentially create something better. Whether it is imitating a character or creating a piece of art through a time lapse. There are many forms of creativity. An example can be a mash-up where people edit videos with snippets of animated movies and TV shows. This would usually cause copyright problems with the originating companies, but it has become a way, people create things and it became part of the mainstream. “Our audiences can creatively mash video from our content as much and as often as they like,” said Dan Martinsen, a Nickelodeon spokesman. “By the way,” he added, “that was a very nice edit job by whoever did the SpongeBob mash.” It has become acceptable for people to use it as a form of creativity. Along with the new media, people are able to show their creative piece of work to the rest of the world. 


Reference:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/10/050110crmu_music