The Next New Thing

My suggest for the new type of new media that havent existed yet is to develop an app called "Notifications".  When you hear about notification you must think of some kind of application that gives you notices. It will work the same way like Facebook or Yelp. This app is based on users contributions. It will let you know what you should notice on the current period. I will call group of users using this app is community. In this community, we share information, notices that we see in our situation such as traffics, events happening, ...  This app will give users the needed information which is contributed by other users. And notifications will be group by its characteristics and locations. For example, when a user contributes information about an event, it will pop up on the page of users in around that location (you need the share your location to get updated) or people have the same interests ( you need to pick the topics that you re interested in such as: food events, traffic,...) This will help we generate the "live" - information faster and more accurate. Besides that, we can use this app to update/ let others users know about the status of your train (whether it has any delays/ reroute. So that other users can manage their trip efficiently. With this app, things will be more convenient!!!!!!!!   

Our class Wiki

What I have done so far:

I recently uploaded and added some pictures to different topic such as: Art/ Advertising on Social Media.
I also edited the content and rearrange the information for these sites.
Besides that, I edited information on the Privacy matter and social media definition on Advertising Social wiki.
Moreover, I'm working on a new post about "Pho" - Vietnamese traditional noodle and will be uploading soon

P2P file sharing

         

File sharing can simply be understood as sharing files between users. It is a private or public sharing of a computer data within a network. This is the act of distributing data b/w users in a network. A user will upload or set their data under shared mode to give other permission to access to their files. Likewise, other people can download a *free* data under this concept.  

P2P file sharing: In this term, P2P stands for Peer to Peer. You can understand Peer to Peer here as from person to person; however, in P2P file sharing network, peer stands for a computer system and P2P file sharing is used to distribute/share data in a network of computer system. The very interesting is that file can be shared directly between the system without the need of center server. 

BitTorrent is one of the most popular peer to peer file sharing apps today. According to The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, BitTorrent is most successful p2p file sharing apps ever. It let users quickly download/share enormous amount of data or files hundreds or thousand times bigger than a single MP3. There are about 40 million downloads in 2006.    

Besides that, there are many other P2P file sharing apps such as: Lucky Wire, Morpheus, Vuze

References: Clive Thompson, The BitTorrent effect http://www.wired.com/2005/01/bittorrent-2/

Privacy and confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are always the big concern in New Media generation. Nowadays, people tend to become more open in social networking. A lot of people have a habit to share their information on social networking. They share their friends, there location, what they have, where they have been,… From a Facebook accounts, we can figure out a lot of information about that person. It will be safe when you share your information with your friends or the person that you know well; however, you never know who is tracking you. That would be a great threat for you when you public too much personal information on social networking. According to a report about trust and privacy concern within social networking sites “100% of the Facebook members reveal their real name in their profile, compared to 66.7% of MySpace members. 94% of Facebook members include their email address, compared to about 40% of MySpace members.” (Catherine Dwyer. Starr Roxanne Hiltz. Katia Passrini, 2007).

References:

Catherine Dwyer. Starr Roxanne Hiltz. Katia Passrini.” Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of Facebook and MySpace”(2007).AMCIS 2007Proceedings.Paper339.http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2007/339/?utm_source=aisel.aisnet.org%2Famcis2007%2F339&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages

Advice for Baruch College

BlackBoard is one of my biggest concern @ Baruch. If I were hired by Baruch to use new media to improve the College, I would concentrate on improving communication on Blackboard taking advantages of new media involving in technology. My suggestion is to make Blackboard becomes more responsive and easy to access. Nowadays, creating an app used on smartphone isn't too hard, why don't we create a Blackboard app that can be used the same way as Facebook or Twitter? I think it's too complicated and inconvenient to access to Blackboard through website. That's the reason most of students hardly check their blackboard. If we had a Blackboard app in our phone, it would be very easy to get notification and make communication between us becomes more responsive. The app doesn't need to be very details but should be included essential feature such as update new posts by professor, assist discussion broad, access to material,...

          

Creativity and New Media

Long time ago, when I was young, in order to capture the feeling, I started to write diary. This is a very old and simply way that most of 20+ know how to do. Time files and I have never stopped capturing my feeling and the moment I love. However, I have constantly changed the way I do it.When I first know about Facebook, I loved to share my stories, my journey through notes, posts and pictures. Until I knew about Youtube, I am passionate about watching other stories and journeys.

I used to think about having my channel and share my own stories capturing in my way... And I really did that in this assignment.

Here is the video that I made with the intention to capturing and sharing the great time of my life in my way. I chose Youtube to be a place to share my story :)
The video captures that first time I tried to make cookies with my little cousin. We really had a good time together over the weekend.

I'm not sure if it's creativity to everyone but to me, doing something in a creative way is creativity.    
Check out my other videos about my 2 Journeys to Virginia

Apple picking and Strawberry picking


 

Creativity

Never than before, New Media has fostered our creativity. The definition of creativity is not only limited in creating an art but also used in all of our life perspectives from business to society.

There is an article in New York Times "Twitter Servers Up Ideas from Its Followers" . This article mainly tells us how Twitter adopts its follower's ideas as well as other company uses social networking to conduct a research on their customer idea about their product/service. "The company watches how people use the service and which ideas catch on. Then its engineers turn the ideas into new features". In fact, it is a very creative way to benefit your business from new media. Not just only Twitter, Facebook also tries to listen to their user's ideas to consecutively improve themselves to fix the demand. 

New Media allows everyone to be a creative individual.We can also see how creative people are in one of the largest social media sites -Youtube. People try to find a creative way to express themselves form v-log, videos, musics... And of course, New Media not only fosters creativity but it also is the creativity transportation. 

References: Claire Cain Miller.Twitter Servers Up Ideas from Its Followers. New York Times. Oct 25 2009.   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=0.