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I feel like since we are living in a digital society, everything already exists out there or has been created somehow. So, thinking about a new media type that does not already exist is a bit difficult.  Living in our current political climate, I think that it is a necessity to know if what we are reading and listening to is completely factual or not. This type of new media I am suggesting would be able to fact check for you, so you are obtaining reliable and correct information. Let’s say the speaker is giving statistics about whatever they are talking about. The application would tell you if the numbers are correct and if his or her speech sounds similar to someone else’s speech. I also think that it would be really cool for this application to tell you who is speaking, if you do not already know, and tell you where the contents of whatever they are speaking or writing about is from. This new media is extremely relevant today and I wish that I had it right now to navigate th
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Wiki So Far

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So far for our Baruch wiki I have been playing around with the website and just getting an idea of what information I want to add. I have been clicking on random pages are just reading through them. I have made spelling and grammatical edits on business page, sports page, and the fashion page. I also added an image on the YouTube page. I am planning on adding a few more sections for certain topics. I want to make the Fashion section a Beauty and Fashion section. Social media has affected the beauty industry in so many ways. I will add content about apps that you can download and basically try on makeup to see how it will look on a picture of you. Many makeup companies are completely online now, which adds to the way that this industry operates. I might also include feuds within the beauty industry that have begun on YouTube and some other social sites. Also, when I was on the Health and Fitness page, at the few bottom had a small section on social media’s impact on
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P2P

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Since we are living in a digital society, everything can be done and shared on there. File sharing is the practice of sharing or offering access to digital information or resources, such as documents, videos, graphics, computer programs, images and e-books. File sharing can be done privately or publicly. With file sharing, numerous users can have and edit the same document at the same time with no issue. File sharing implies a system in which users write to or read files to users with a certain level of access.  Peer to peer (P2P) file sharing is the most common form of file sharing. Even though this is the most used form, it is also the most controversial method of file sharing. P2P file sharing allows users to directly access, download and edit files. The use of the P2P software is done through third party software. This method has revolutionized the way that we use the internet. The P2P file sharing is mostly associated with spreading pirated content. It should be used for
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Privacy

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Now that we are living in a digital society, it is important for us to understand if we even have control over our own privacy and confidentiality. New media has definitely revolutionized the way that we look at our privacy. It is completely different from even how we evaluated privacy 10 years ago. The fourth amendment to the Constitution protects the privacy of ourselves, our homes and our belongings. The internet was not around when this document was written, so are we protected on the internet?  “We are fast approaching a privacy crisis in the United States. Google, Facebook and other big Internet companies collect information about us, which they deploy in the service of advertisers” (Nocera). Big companies are taking our information from these new media sites and selling them to other companies to make more money and just increase the flow of information. Since there are no rules and regulations regarding new media applications, no one truly knows what is right from wron
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Advice

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I believe that Baruch College currently does a pretty good job with keeping up to date with all the changes in new media. They utilize various social media sites to share and inform their students, alumni and future students. Their website is also updated. If I was hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the college, I would make a few suggestions. First, the relationships between students and professors can be more interactive and engaging. Many professors that I have had just use PowerPoint slides to teach and are only available outside of class for maybe 2 office hours. That is not sufficient time, especially if you are not grasping a topic or there are many students there in the same position as you. An interactive portal or blog would be really great. The professor and students can easily post questions, problems and solve any issues more efficiently. You are also constantly learning all day with a site similar to this one. Textbooks could also be digitalized
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Creativity and New Media

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New media and creativity go hand in hand. There are so many forms of new media that I could have chosen to express what I am passionate about. Growing up I never really used social media and I still don’t really use it. Instead, I created a Medium blog for one of my previous courses, but I still post updated content once in a while. I was told to write about something that I truly care about and am passionate about. This is why I chose to have a fashion blog with a more political and socially aware twist. The beauty and fashion industries are constantly changing and evolving to become more diverse and inclusive, which is amazing.  To get started, I had to create a profile and write a little bit about me. This is when I decided to make it a fashion blog. Using Medium is pretty similar to posting here on Blogger. For each entry, I listed a title with a brief description of what I would be writing about. Within the body of the text is where I got into my main points of what I c
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Creativity

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New media is a means of mass communication using digital technologies. There are so many different forms of new media, it is hard to keep up sometimes. Whether you are blogging like me, playing a virtual reality game, listening to a podcast or just tweeting, you are using a form of new media. Since there are so many options, each one fosters tons of creativity differently. Creativity can be both good and bad depending on the point of view that you take.   In the New York Times article, “Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?”, Brooks Barnes writes about how Disney keeps a close eye on all of its content. Disney usually does not approve of making their cartoons explicit or alternating something to change the meaning. If these videos are not harming anyone or the reputation of Disney, they are usually left alone. This specific video put “Crank That” by Soulja Boy over clips of Winnie the Pooh. I ended up watching a whole bunch of videos that utilized this method
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