The Next New Thing

A useful new media for Baruch students would be a new app such as the Facebook but for students. This would be like a social media app for only Baruch students that would allow them to connect and communicate with each other. The app would be right at the palm of their hands and it would allow them to communicate with professors as well. Also from this app, we would be able to get the Baruch academic calender as well as other necessary Baruch announcements. Also students would be able to put up questions or comments they have about certain classes. Students and professors would be able to post up pictures and videos through this app.

P2P File Sharing

1.) File sharing is when digitally stored information is accessible from a provider. For example computer software, or computer programs, videos, pictures, music etc.
2.) P2P file sharing is peer to peer file sharing. This is done by using a peer to peer software and internet access. Peers can basically give each other a variety of files. Basically the user has access to all types of media files.
3.) Computer programs, software's, multimedia such as pictures, videos, disk sharing, etc.

The article on Wikipedia about Digital Rights Management is pretty interesting. It takes us back to the topic about privacy and confidentiality. DRM helps stop online infringement and copyright issues.

Privacy And Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are both very important whether it has to do with new media or some other aspect. A lot of times we are unaware of the fact that we are putting up a lot of our personal stuff online. For example, many times on social networking sites such as Facebook, we put our personal information, but don't put the proper security or privacy settings on our pages. Same goes for other social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter. With the use of Youtube, you have copyrights which prevents people from using other peoples work to claim it as their own. All these measures are taken simply because the internet is so enormous now, you never know where your work or personal information is going. Furthermore, any work that you do put online, such as even a small piece of work such as a poem, maybe used by someone else without using your reference. That poem is your own individual intellectual property and you might not want someone else to share it. Therefore, privacy and security is a major issue when using new media and the internet in general.

Advice

If I was hired by Baruch College to improve their usage of media, I would
1.)  Open up more online courses using blackboard. Blackboard is an awesome way to use technology to instruct courses. For example, our CIS class is an online course. Its easily accessible to all students who are at Baruch and it would maybe decrease the traffic in the college if this was done.
2.) Incorporate more social media websites in courses. For example, instead of writing papers all the time about certain topics, blogging about topics is much more interactive and perhaps students will be more interested in reading the material and writing about it. This kind of change might be much more intriguing and interesting to students.
3.)  This would be a stretch but if we could have virtual classes where the instructor is basically teaching the class online with all the students at the same time on a webcam, class might be more exciting.