The Next New Thing

Small and skinny gadgets are in the trend today. How about we have something that is as small as the size of your watch? This gadget fits in your wrist and looks like your watch ; but with just one button it connects to the wifi, and with that one press: you can do the video chatting, get updates, listen to songs, and something that can even tell you when the next train is coming and more to that you can use it in the train also.

Microsoft in 10 years

Looks unreal, but I found this really interesting video and I thought of sharing it with y'all; since we're kind of talking about the vision for the future. :)

Our Class Wiki So Far

I decided to work on New Media in Food, Beverage & Hospitality Industry. We all know that New Media has influenced a lot of sectors and Food industry is one of them. When we say new media most of us including myself think about social networking and all. So I wanted to learn more about how new media has been fostering the food industry thats why i chose this topic. I haven't really contributed much on this area, but i have been doing researches.

p2p

File sharing means exchanging file from using computer with the means of the internet. P2P (Peer-to-Peer) File Sharing is a way of sharing files from one user to another without a need for special server devices. Some examples of p2p file sharing would be Napster, Limewire, Bittorrent and Kazaa. Using these sites seem attractive because they are mostly free but you really need to be careful while using them. The article "Minnesota Mom Hit With $1.5 Million Fine for Downloading 24 Songs" states that a women who downloaded 24 songs using limewire had a penalty of 1.5 million.

Privacy and confidentiality

Eventhough new media has made our lives immesely easy, it has its negative sides too. Privacy and confidentiality is one of the issues that cannot be overlooked. So much information is shared on the internet that anyone can steal each other's information easily. There is a danger of identity theft and increase in the crime with the increase in the use of new media.
For example, with the pictures that you post on these site anyone can steal and attempt that increases the danger of identity theft. Moreover, cyberbullying is another boggest issue amongst teenagers these days. Some teenagers do not know their limits of posting comments on their friends pictures or on their wall. Theier one nasty comment can offend immensely to the person he/she comments on. This issue can be so serious that it the person who is being bullied can even be compelled to take their own lives. When people are posting these comments, a lot of them do not realize that they are not just interacting with the computer infact anything they write is affected to another human being and the computer is just a medium that helps them communicate with each other. I recently watched a movie, Cyberbully, and i thought that it was totally educational and also epitomizes my point here.

Advice to Baruch

As a CIS major, I do not think that there is a lot of additional resources for us to get help for our homework other than the professor and your classmates. I am a beginner in programming and the classes I am taking this semester are a bit challenging for me. So I have always wished if we had a tutoring service for CIS classes as well. Therefore, we could use the new media( for example blogs) as a platform to interact with each other, post homework problems and suggest solutions(not like direct solution, but just ideas to get them started).

About My Term Research Paper

I am glad that I chose a topic of my interest and enjoyed writing this paper. I did the research though articles on websites, scholarly journals, books, newspaper articles and the movie The social network. I learned a lot throughout this research. It was overwhelming to see some of the negative consequences of using these sites. For instance, I have always been hearing that people get fired because of these sites, and actually got to read some examples.

Creativity and New Media

Group Projects can be really hectic- You need to give extra time to meet your group and all the members don't always live close. Hence, considering the value of time of all the group members, I created a group on Facebook to discuss about our group assignment for Computer Ethics(CIS 3270) class. We can drop a question anytime and response to it promptly. In addition, we can also have a group chat so we do not have to meet physically that often.

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(I spray painted on the texts and the group members.)