Someone Else's Term project presentation

The project I would like to talk about is Davinder’s project on social networking and purposeful loss of privacy. In her presentation, she tell about the social networking are sites that individual use to interact and communicate with one another. She gave more details about the social networking. She thought Users should create a limited profile and use the privacy setting, so they have more control on their personal information. Also avoid posting everything online because once its posted online, its public and anyone can access to it now and in the future. She gave example to us, about the facebook, she thought social networking is a great tool to stay in touch with your friends and family but you have to be careful about what you post. Social networks are great fun and can be advantageous but people really need to understand that its complicated world and you need to step wisely. I feel her presentation is very clear, many details to support her topic, and two interesting videos from youtube bring us greatest happiness.

About My Term Project

My topic of presentation is “The Impact of New Media in China”, about the positive and negative impact of new media. Before I talk about the positive and negative effects, I told the statistics of the internet users and ratio of male and female user, and their activities. Then, I talked about the positive impact on new media in “communication” about email, cell phone, blog, online diary, and QQ and how these affect Chinese people and how it’s socializing, and i spent few time to introduce the QQ, QQ similar to MSN, both of them have space, IM, email, viedo camara, and so on. the difference is QQ have QQ Pet and QQ music. Then continued to education aspect and followed by business (www.taobao.com) -the famous website for online shopping and entertainment. After I talked about the positive effects then I talked about the negative effects. In communication aspect, a lot of people got hacked by email hackers. In business, many people selling illegal things online. Followed by the entertainment aspect and how kids are addicting to the video games and follow the scene in the game. At the end, I mentioned about the solution of the negative effects.

Our Class WiKi- So Far

In the contribution to our class wiki, I added new contents into New Media in Politics pages. I created a new page about the alternative media sources in New Media in US political. There are 4 main alternative media sources, such as Alternative news services, Alternative television networks, Alternative television programs, and Alternative radio programs. I provide some details to support each alternative media programs. I also edit about The World Wide Web and the accompanying explosion in “new media” has forced an upheaval in U.S. politics, and I list four areas, 1) Innovative ways to reach voters, 2) A radically changed news system, 3) An unprecedented flood of small donors, 4) Newly empowered interest groups on the left and the right.

The Next New Thing

Because of developing country or developed country, there are a lot of new inventions coming out, such as internet, since internet is really important tools to people use for their work, so if they lose the important files from the hacker’s attack. It will cause them spend extra time to do it again. There are many more problems that the hackers do. This is why I hope in the future we’ll have a computer that allows you to know if your computer is being hacked and by who and it will automatically block the hacker and report the police. Let say that if someone’s hacking a computer, it will report wirelessly and automatically to the owner of the computer (by text message) and to the police to let you know that you're being hacked. The owner and the police have the access to hacker’s information to find out what IP address it is and who owns or who uses it.

Privacy and Confidentiality

According to research, Privacy means the right of individuals to hold information about themselves in secret, free from the knowledge of others; such as how much you have in your bank accounts. And Confidentiality means the assurance that information about identifiable persons, the release of which would constitute an invasion of privacy for any individual, will not be disclosed without consent except as allowed by law; such as commercial secrets. In new media, such as Facebook, you have to enter a correct user name and password to open your page, if you have forgotten your username and password, you will be asked to provide proof to prove you are user. I think this is confidential information, because anyone can’t open your account since they don’t have correct password. However, you can choose friends to see or comment on your facebook wall, but only your friends can see your information. I think this could be privacy information.

Advice to Baruch College

If I was hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the College, First, I would suggest create more online education opportunity, Currently, we have a couple of mixed online & offline classes. Since we are living in busy daily life, it will provide more educational opportunity if creates more online courses. Second, I suggest Online Tutorial. We have a great tutorial service in campus, but they provide their service within 9:00 AM~ 8:00 PM. It’s still not enough time for people have class or job. I think if they provide these videos online. It will help student to improve their academic performance. The third, The College should have a system where each student can set up a list of classes that includes the correct number of credits for graduation. So each student can have checklist of what they took already and what still needs to be taken.

My New Media Class - So Far

There are few new technologies that can be considering new media. One of the biggest one is probably the World Wide Web and all the networks within it. Billions of people visit the Internet on a daily basis. People can interact with each other within seconds across networks (AIM, virtual worlds, & social networks). The Internet is very important to new media. It allows easy access to all kinds of information and information can be easily changed or added. Like in the reading "IBM Learning Programs Get a 'SecondLife'" it talks about how people who are employed can change information about themselves and even their avatars. Their avatars can have anything they want but when it comes to some kind of serious meeting with the online avatars you can easily change their clothing and other things to make them less distracting to other people. In the article "What's Next? Your Future in Social Networking" Chuck Hamilton said "Virtual worlds are quickly becoming a powerful tool and a driving force to what many are calling the 3D Internet – one that is open, immersive, innovative, and social." It also shows New Media become so important. New media is enhancing old media in both positive and negative ways. On a positive side, people are improving their quality of life. With new technologies, people are able to work on tasks faster and effectively. On negative part, people take advantage of new technologies and take easy way out of everything, and being lazy.