Our Class Wiki - So Far

On our class wiki I have been working on "What is Social Networking" in the section "How Business isusing Social Networking". That is all that I have contributed to it.

About My Term Project

My term project is about New Media & the Digital Divide. It consists of the history, young people and kids, the labor force potical campaigns, and Other countries like Brazil and European Union. It will also be about bridging the gap in the digital divide.

The Next New Thing

New media today en corporates almost everything we use. One of new media I think that would be helpful in today's society is one that people that don't know to much about new media can simple to use and be beneficial to them. This could help them keep up the way new media is going forward in the future. I think this can be a good thing for new media if does that. There are some people that don't know how to use the new media technology today.

Privacy & Confidentiality

In today's society of new media one of the biggest issues is privacy and confidentiality. An example of this is social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook. On sites like Facebook and Myspace most of the people that use these put up information that is not necessary to be on the social networking site. The information that most people put up are phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and other important information too. With that important info on the site which could viewed they leave themselves vulnerable to identity theft or something else. On the social networking sites they give the option to choose who can see and can not view their profile information. The community must use caution on what information they put and who can view it because you never know what someone will do with that information.

Advice to Baruch College

Baruch College getting more and more up to date with new media in our society today. One of the things Baruch College is blackboard. It really is a good way for us students to see any assignments or our grades on assignments that we did for class, and for professors as well to put the grades in and keep track of a student's progress in the class. Even though blackboard is good there is a downside to it though. Last semester blackboard more than once was down for days. The students couldn't see their grades on assignments and also get information about newly posted assignments. Professors couldn't put in any grades or retrieve any grades if that was there only source that contained their students grades and they could not post any new assignments on blackboard. Baruch College can start using the wiki and all the professors too who use blackboard as an alternative to blackboard to post new assignments, grades and students can use it too. The wiki is simple to use so I can see as an alternative to blackboard if it goes down again like how it did last semester.

My New Media Class - So Far

In today's society the technologies that are part of new media are social networking websites, blogs, mashups. The internet is very important to us because it allows us to stay connected with others from anywhere. New media is enchancing old media for example like in Second Life which is in the article 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction by Nicole Saidi which explains how Second Life helps kids with autism to act in the real world. That is new media in today's society.

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

Virtual worlds play a role in today's society. Both in our business lives and personal as well. In the article IBM's Virtual World for its Employees: IBM Learning Programs Get a 'Second Life' by Ed Frauenheim which tells how IBM employees under go training to learn how to do their job correctly through the virtual world of Second Life. Also in the article iReport: 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction by Nicole Saidi tells us about kids with autism and how the world of Second Life helps them learn how to interact with people in the real world. The benefits of a virtual world is that you can try again and don't have to worry about messing up like in the real world like in both articles the employees and of IBM and the kids with autism get a second chance to learn and fix the mistakes that they did in the virtual world like Second Life. There is a darkside to this though, which is that it is time consuming. I have a feeling that this technology is going to be used in every business that requires training and help people with a mental illness like autism in the future, despite that it would take up time.