Our Class Wiki - So Far

I am a contributor for the new media in art section. In my research, I want to include topics as computer graphics, computer animation and digital art. I believe that modern computer art is devoted to produce very interesting and high quality photographs and paintings. However, that most fascinating thing about media art is computer animation because it can be accomplished by one person using a variety of software to create funny animated characters often look like real ones. I also focus my attention on graphics because technology is constantly growing and create an amazing work of art through computer tools and softwares. One of my favorite “ modern era” artists is Olga Kumeger, author of video- paint performance. She uses advanced computer technology and computer graphics together with music dance to create astounding collections of arts. If you are interested to see her art, this is a link to her website.
http://www.kumeger.com/

The Next New Thing

In recent years marketing efforts have been focusing on new media as a great tool to launch modern pad to advertising companies. A next big thing will be concentrating more on advanced technology to promote products and services efficiently. I believe that cellular phones have recently entered into a scope of new media as a great way to build a brand for the company. Although, we watch TV or listen to radio and a lot of advertisers screaming to get our attention, we can hardly remember the meaning of these ads that we go through. This happens because we have a chance to skip or flee when it comes to it. The difference is that the mobile phone never goes unnoticed. We cheek text message every day. Therefore, pop up ads in the cell phones is much faster to get our response than any other forms of advertisement. The ad may be also personal. These ads allow you to know where your favorite band will perform, and what kind of movie will be playing in the theatre next to your house. Location- based advertising is another future possibility. Local companies may track phone users and send appropriate messages to them. For example, restaurant’s owner can send a message about special serve of the day when you pass by.
Cell phone advertising is considered to have an edge over other forms of advertising and expected to have excellent growth down the line.

About My Term Research Paper

I have been fascinated with social networking sites ever since it first emerged. Over the years, websites like Face Book, Twitter or MySpace have sprung up and significantly impacted our lives whether like it or not. I believe that social media participation become an essential tool in making new contacts, recruiting employees, or simply keeping touch with a world. If you are not part of it the world is leaving you behind. The main reason for choosing my topic related to social media was to explore the phenomenon of these sites and investigate their influence on society. There are many articles, books or magazines available covering various topics about social network sites. Therefore, obtain necessary information wasn’t very difficult task. I used Baruch library’s database where I could obtain many very interesting ideas on this particular topic and chose the articles which was related to my research paper.
Social websites became very popular. That it leaves many people wondering how these services benefit our lives ?
While reading many interesting articles, I discovered that social sites create plenty of opportunities, especially for business owners to reach out to millions of potential costumers and employees. Moreover, I was surprised that everyday about 60 millions of people in the United States login to social sites to connect with their high school classmates, hook up with their old friends or stay in touch with family members .
As well, social sites are the perfect place for self-promotion, a place for achievement to be acknowledged. Also, building a significant community membership is a great way to turn it into a profitable online business. However, I have also learned that social network sites have negative effects and blind spots. It should be remember that not everyone on the internet has pure motives and we should use safety precaution and be selective about whom we accepted as a friends or funs. I believe that my paper will contribute to the field of new media because not only presents the brief history of social networking but also shows positive and negative effects of it and advice how to create a great profile and learn to make friends without putting yourself at risk.
Social network sites are a great spaces where people not only communicate but become tied by common ideas, visions or friendship.

Privacy & Confidentiality

As time goes, humans come up with new inventions, which improve the quality of our lives. One of them is an internet which is an amazing and intimidating place as well. It can help make you dream come true, and it can be your worst nightmare. I believe that internet is a global phenomenon and embrace all aspects of modern life from conduct business, shopping and to be able to communicate with other people daily. In the click of your mouse, you can order ipod or interesting books and have it delivered to your house. However, the internet is also a place where people have an opportunity to commit crimes. Computer thief is not a person who is wearing traditional stocking mask over his face or carrying a gun. He enters your computer, accesses your personal information and disappeared long before you notice that something is wrong. The only good thing about this is that you don't wake up with a bump on your head or any other injury. There is a little it can be done to prevent identity crime. Despite being careful about what personal information you may become a victim of identity theft. Criminals are everywhere on the Internet and just waiting for a person's mistakes to still money and to go on shopping sprees, open new accounts or take out auto loans in your name. Therefore, it is necessary for a strengthen the sense of awareness about the information, we send to different people. Another reasonable solution would be to send our data encrypted, which can be read by those specific individuals, who are intended to receive information and be capable of decrypt it.

Advice to Baruch College

Baruch College is a great school.However,I would recommend some changes to improve quality and flexibility of education. One of them is to create more classes on line.It allows students to work at their pace because all of us have different learning styles. In addition,it would be very helpful option for students who work full time because it enables them to study material in the way that works best for them.
My second advice to Baruch College is to improve computer courses and divided them into two components lab and lecture.The lecture part should explain the computer terminology and concepts. The lab part should give students some hands-on experience,especially with a computer program like C ++ or Java. I believe these computer courses together with the lab provides a background that should be useful for students and help them in their future careers.

Twitter Discussion

I really enjoyed twitting with my colleagues. I could follow students and be followed by them. They provided me with useful and funny information. I believe that Twitter is a great place where people can start discovering and sharing information with others. However, as I used the blackboard or in class discussion, I don't have to limit my answers to a certain number of words, and I could find a little bit difficult to convey a piece of a message that fits into 140 characters.Moreover, It is sometimes to intimidate to participate in class discussion. Therefore, I prefer to twitt in my own comfort zone

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

Nowadays,computers are very essential elements of people's life because it has been used constantly at homes, schools or work places. Modern computer technology can literally take us to other worlds and different dimension of reality referred to as a virtual technology. It is also allowed users to be engaged in a world that is sensitive to the user’s sight, hearing and touch. There are different ways that advanced technology can be used. Many universities have set up virtual campuses where students can meet, attend classes or take place in various students' activities. This technology has also an enormous impact in the health care system as well. For example, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can give us a very detailed imagine of the brain structure and quickly detect any abnormalities. Moreover, according to article “Naughty Auties, Battle Autism With Virtual Interaction”(2008),people who suffer from brain disorder like autism or Asperger's syndrome can benefit from using computer interaction to communicate with other people which can significantly contribute to improvement of the syndromes. It is also helped to reshape a business relationship. In real life, it takes hours to move back from one meeting room to another. In virtual worlds, the whole team can be quickly transport to another working locations in a matter of seconds. However, people spend more time in front of computer screens, and I believe that there has been a reduction in personally communication between them. Moreover, number of studies had shown that most human communication is not based on their verbal but non verbal communication through the internet. The virtual world can foster creativity because users can manipulate and create or interact with objects or people, which are similar to real world experiences. I truly believe that education, entertainment or workplace will be greatly transformed by virtual reality and will put it in a driver's seat of countless industry.

Social Networking

In the past, the only way for people to be involved with social networking was to attend meetings or events that were designed for individual to meet other people. Because of advances in technology as internet, there is now more efficient way to meet people or conduct business on line. It is obvious that all types of companies can greatly benefit from social networking sites by advertising their businesses for free or low costs and uploading interesting videos, publishing advertisements to reach broad range of customers. Many successful marketers are using social marketing tools to promote business and build a network of friends with a common interest, while offering support, advices or exchange information and earning income. Social networking websites are being used by millions of people, and it's become a part of everyday's life. Most of the social sites contain directions of some categories such as former classmates, tools to find friends or simply to join to the specific group of people to share common interest or hobbies. One of the interesting futures about social networking is that members can create their own web page and post their profiles to expand their circle of friends. Moreover, healthcare professionals use these sites to share information about diseases, the way to cure them and share their information about latest developments in medicine. Charities and non profit organizations also use them to request varies aids as food, medicine or clothes for people in need. Social networking sites are known as online communities where people can be connected with each other. Unfortunately, these sites became also the stomping grounds for many on line predictors whose desire is to find a way to harm other people, especially teenagers. Therefore, the best way to protect youths is to educate them about the danger that exists out there.
Social Networking Technology
Great Wall of Facebook

Check Out Social Networking Sites

Over the past few years more and more social networking sites have been developed. Some of them have grown into gigantic communities, fulfilling their purpose to allow users to communicate with friends, strangers or even seek job opportunities in the comfort of their homes. I have recently visited few social networking sites and compared them to each other. Some of the important names in social networking would be Myspace, Facebook, Friendster and LinkedIn. I became a member of a Facebook about two years ago. In the beginning, the website seemed to be open mostly to college students. Over the years, I could observe how rapidly the site has been growing as time progressed. Apart from the fact, that Facebook site became available to all users and has added various applications as music, dating or games in order to reach a broad range of population. It is also provided significant information for curious employers, who are looking for future candidates. While accessing other sites as Friendster, I notice that it can be viewed as a “mini Facebook” because it has a similar user’s interface and profile layout. In contrast, Friendster is much less popular than Facebook, and it has been using to meet "Stranger" rather than to socialize with friends. Another well known site that I want to mention is Myspace, which remains one of the biggest social network giants with 200 million members. It is also open to all comers. Moreover, it turns itself into the platform where other companies may launch their own applications and Internet services. Facebook and Myspace sites allow users to do different kind of things. For example, Myspace puts heavy emphasis on new media as music video and films that have not been a leading part of the Facebook experiences, which is more about communication efficiency. I believe that MySpace targeted younger members as teenagers, high school population and give them an ability to create desired background or upload the favorite songs. When it comes to social network sites it appears that everyone is obsessed with Facebook, which seems to become more popular than MySpace website. However, I also want to bring up another great site, Linkedln. It is a primary career network which is designed to capture all professionals from "cradle to grave". But, when compare it to the Facebook site it seems that Linkedln doesn't offer any multimedia or attractive graphics, but it is still an incredible system for recruiting and business networking.

Blogs vs Wikis

While analyzing two major new media applications:blog and wiki,which both are web 2.0 applications,I found some similarities and differences between them.
A blog is usually maintained by its owner who regularly enters his comments on various topics such as music,politics or philosophy.Blog is more as a personal journal on line that can be frequently updated by the individual and reflects the personality and character of its owner.
In contrast,a wiki is a webpage as well, but it can be editable by all its users who may modernize it any way they want.One good example is Wikipedia,a big encyclopedia on line with thousands of articles on various topics.It is constantly evolving and can be changed by anyone.
I believe that convergence have a significant impact on today’s technology.Convergence is the combination of all different media into one operating platform,and it makes possible for one element to provide multi – service.One good example is Internet,which provides the most significant convergence service because it combines all know communication media into one single service available on a computer screen.
Since the Wikipedia is free to access,the contributions made by doctors, economists and other professionals should be rewarded for their quality and valuable ideas and allow them to earn a reasonable profit.Moreover, Wikis are usually collaborative,unlike most blogs because it permits content creation or revision by any person.It may also be created as a company internal network, where every employee may leave feedback or advices how to improve company performance.Blogs can be also use for collaboration in many ways.One of them is to create a blog which can be accessed by scientists in the particular field as medicine in order to allow them to publish their ideas and develop treatments which may bring hope to millions of people suffering from the diseases.
I believe that a good idea for a wiki that has not been done yet is to make it more secure by allowing a user to edit only his own text and left comments or rate on other people’s publications.

Work Cited:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
www.informationweek.com
www.cnn.com
www.nytimes.com

Old vs New

With the fast paced world we live in today, it is obvious that traditional paper and ink have been eclipsed by the power of modern technology, especially internet. New media consists of various blogs and websites that provide us with a necessary information in a matter of a few seconds unlike the traditional encyclopedias or books, where reader has to spend hours to find necessary information. Another positive aspect of new media is that it keeps up with the current events, breaking news such as the recent tragedy in Haiti or provides information about events which take place during the winter Olympic Games, dissimilar to old media as newspaper, where readers have to wait for morning newspapers to learn about any major events.Moreover, New media offers an access to information which can be changed, modernize or share with other people compare to old media as books where the written words are often impossible to change.

TERM PROJECT: Social Networking - Positive And Negative Effects On Society

For my term project, I will be analyzing the Social Networking Websites as Facebook and My Space. In the beginning of my paper, I will provide a brief history, and I will also discuss a rapid development of social networking for the past few years. Then I will describe some positive and negative effects these sites have on society.

WHAT IS NEW MEDIA ?

New media is an advanced technology that people using every day included Internet, websites, streaming video, computer games, and many more.
I strongly believe that internet is a very important part of new media. It is not only allowing people to obtain a multitude of diverse information, but also it is helping to accelerate globalization by transferring the necessary information and knowledge in various fields to provide educational resources for developing countries to improve their standard of living, increase efficiency in production. Advanced Internet technology became a base for economic growth, without it these countries will fall further into poverty and economic ruin with little hope for survival.
Moreover, through the internet people can use technology as video conferencing, email, chat rooms or other communication tools to connect in real time and conduct businesses with each other.
I believe that new media is outperforming traditional one because it can provide a broader and easier access to information like news, which can be obtained from various sites faster than from local newspapers. Because of the modern internet technology, I can access a digital library which provides thousands of books and read them in comfort of my home instead of taking a long trip to the local library.