Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Next New

( Not sure if this exists yet) Online Interviewing Service - Media Sources such as LinkedIn and Indeed all have apps that you can search and apply for jobs. But what about an online interviewing portion to this apps and companies? It would be so much easier for a company in New York to do a pre requisite interview with someone who was living in lets say Texas. It would make the process much easier instead of potential employees going on long trips to just get rejected.
I think this might be a great idea since it would help employers and possible employees in the job search process.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Wiki So Far


I will admit that working on the Wiki was a little difficult for me to grasp at first but after I looked it through I tried to make helpful contributions.  I contributed to the page What is New Media and wrote the best explanation/ definition. I also edited one of the other links on spelling as I was reading through what others posted. I also contributed to the Health and Fitness page because I can related to it alot. I think my contributions may be better when I figure out how to use pictures in my posts!

P2P


 File Sharing is the exchange of cyber data between users on the internet, sometimes between 2 users or multiple users on certain content. File sharing has made the gathering of information much easier in the sense that you can share and receive almost any type of content through a network.

P2P File Sharing is sharing media between users. It stands for Peer to Peer sharing which basically means you're getting your media from other users. It gives you the cyber access to media such as books, videos, movies,music, games, websites and more. P2P software is required for exchanges of media.

Examples of P2P file Sharing are through Limewire, Frostwire, Kazaa and Napster. All of these in which were very popular when i was younger and it was the easy thing to download all of my iPod music off of. In the article Content producers should take advantage of P2P, not fear it by NMA staff; they used another P2P site called Pirate Bay to release a film. Sites such as Pirate Bay give people the opportunity to take movies and music and other types of media for themselves. Although using these sites and software are easy to do they pose large consequences of viruses and legal problems.




Monday, April 11, 2016

Advice to Baruch College

Using Media is a great way to outsource to the campus community freshman and seniors and employees alike. Some suggestions might be to create a Facebook page and an Instagram account where students can be featured and put their input on whats going on on campus. Another cool thing which I don't know if it has been done yet is create some Geo tags for Snapchat, this way there can be a feed of snap chats based and fueled by Baruch Students. A good way to get students involved is have a place on social media in which students can voice their opinions on things that they believe are important.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Privacy

In our age of new media, privacy has almost become non existent. It seems to be very hard to keep personal information to ourselves. We're now aware of hackers and identity theft, its a struggle to put information on social media without others having access to it. When we interact through social media and different networking sites, we may not realize the type of information that we are posting. Easily other users can see everything that we have put up, sometimes us as posters do not see the harm we can do to ourselves by simply sharing too much. On social networks such as Instagram, people who follow and do not follow you can see what you like and post depending on your privacy settings. Take Facebook, people can see nearly every aspect of your life! People put almost everything on Facebook: Check- Ins, Pictures, Videos, Posts and much more. It seems even though these social media outlets have privacy settings, your cyber life is not always that private.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Creativity

New Media fosters creativity in multiple ways. Today more than ever the business for graphic designing and app and web developers is booming. I think the age of new media fosters creativity in multiple ways. We can create lives outside of reality and live in a virtual world, you can envision something and create a prototype using computers and web applications. You can design a website and upload photos and graphics to get yourself out there. People now have the ability to produce an online portfolio and resume as well as a hard copy. You can be creative because you have the benefit of internet at your hands, in my classroom i get creative with my 2 year old students, we Zumba. I use YouTube nearly every single day to play different music for them and make sure they are having the best time. New Media outlets such as Pinterest allow me and my head teacher to find new and innovative ideas to freshen up our classroom and make it more interesting for the upcoming year.
In the article Twitter Serves Up Ideas From It's Followers by Claire Cain Miller we see that creativity sometimes stems from who is following you. People watch Twitter to see whats trending and the smart thing that Twitter does is give the people what they want. Instead of them getting taken down for followers, they listen to them give them what they want and this way they don't have to compete.


Creativity and New Media

So this is my character that I created in the simulated game called Episodes. It is an app that can be found on the Apple App Store. The theme or episode that I was in was based off of the movie Mean Girls which happens to be one of my favorites. I was able to chose every aspect of the avatar that I tried to make resemble me as best as I could. I enjoyed that I was even able to have the avatar use my real name, so in the story line I was addressed as Daniela Cohen. I had the ability to chose everything from my hair, clothing, name, eye color and shape and much more. Its amazing how realistic simulation games are these days and I cannot deny that it was actually fun to do.