The Next New Thing

Everybody has proposed so many wonderful ideas. New media is going to new heights, new directions and who knows where that is going to take us. I propose a  phone that will have a camera but instead of a regular screen displaying the image, there will be a projector reflecting a 3D image of the person you are talking to which would take communication to the next level. During the conversation, you could also project real images of anything you would be talking about just like in real life, as if you were really in front of that person or thing. That device generating the image would come with a transparent (invisible) screen when you are not using the phone but would change from translucent to a different light color to attenuate the ambient light so that when the image is projected you get an image as close to reality image that would move as a regular person would..

Our Class Wiki - So Far

In our CIS 3810 Class we have learned to work with WIKI, by editing or even creating our own.

I have experimented WIKI and have updated some grammatical or typing errors. I also have added an article about 2012 New Media winners since there was an entry for 2011 and nothing was available for 2012.  You can check out these winner by clicking the link below

2012 NEW MEDIA AWARDS / WEBSITE AWARDS / WINNERS - Once more, contributors to the field of New Media are being recognized for their contributions. Read all about it.

I also am working on creating my own page about crowdsourcing. New Media, Entrepreneurship and Crowdsourcing ‎. I am a Business Management/Entrepreneurship major and I find that even though the class is about New Media, other business major students like myself might find the subject interesting. New Media, Entrepreneurship and Crowdsourcing ‎ 

P2P File sharing

There is a new way to make use of the internet and one's computer: it is file sharing. File sharing is the process of making digitally stored information available to other users for use. As reminded by  Choi, David Y, Perez, Arturo on their  paper named  "Online piracy and the emergence of new business models " the internet was originally created by the government to allow military and scientists to share new development and new technology. But companies like Microsoft have commercialized the software industry which turned file sharing into something illegal. Originally, this was not the case. But as demonstrated by the Napster case, file sharing now falls under copyright laws.  

File sharing include P2P, peer to peer file sharing which is the use of a software to  research other users who have open content and access their file whether it music, movies, books etc.. The document comes in bits and pieces and is reorganized by the person who downloaded the document. This is  considered highly illegal and the United States contrarily to the European countries strictly  reinforces copyright reinforces copyright laws and punishes piracy. 

But people are resisting and moving to different places and countries once their operations are cracked down as mentioned by Eric Pfanner in his article "Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" But, online piracy and file sharing has contributed to great innovation and provided new business models as the people working  on creating them or the people using them can provide groundbreaking information that can lead to successful businesses.

Sources

• Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" by ERIC PFANNER, The New York Times, April 13, 2009, p. B4. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/technology/internet/13iht-piracy13.html

• Choi, David Y; Perez, Arturo. Online piracy and the emergence of new business models (Conference Paper). USASBE/SBI 2006 Joint Conference Proceedings. Tucson, AZ. ed. Toombs, Leslie A. 2006. http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/research/usasbe/2006/pdffiles/papers/cases/016.pdf

Advice to Baruch

New Media is getting more important by the day and As a new hired by Baruch College to improve the College I believe the school could take many other steps to improve the College New Media standard.  
I think that Creative Commons is a great idea as it allows people to make themselves known through open source. So, in the same spirit I would create a platform to allow students to propose ideas that could be beneficial for students, or the school in general. It could also be used for and by alumni as well.  Say, for example a student or an alumni had an idea to start a business, they could present it to that platform and get feedback from a large educated group. This could open more doors or give access to an even larger pool than just say Facebook because more people would know about the project. 

Privacy & Confidentiality

The  emergence of new media tools such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have been creating some tension between copyright owners, the public and site managers. Copyrights owners have requested from companies like YouTube to take down videos posted because of the copyrighted content of certain material used.

 

Tim Arrango tells us that the "law provides a four-point test for the fair use of copyrighted works, taking into account things like the purpose, the size of an excerpt and the effect the use might have on the commercial value of the actual work." but because YouTube is generating revenues because users are posting videos, copyright lawyers argue that the commercial aspect of the copyright law applies.

This privacy and copyright issue hinder creativity as people are afraid to post videos or do not contest the copyright companies decisions to take down their videos even though there are groups of free lawyers representing them according to the article About fair use, and the problems of old media: As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes" by Tim Arrango

Writers and  artist are now posting their works online for the public to taste for free. people can download unknown artists  songs for free. This gives the artist exposure to the public who can sample their and decide based on the number of downloads if this artist is able to make a name for himself just like Allan Vilhan in the article  by Andy Raskin "Giving it Away (for Fun and Profit) Creative Commons encourages artists to share and distribute their work for free. And that could be the key to a new multibillion-dollar industry". The artists makes money however if a company wants to use their music for a movie or soundtracks for a commercial or a game for example. A new company, Creative Commons,  is making a name itself serving as the intermediary between the artist and rest of the public and leading the way to a new industry.

Creativity and New Media

New Media fosters creativity. Not everybody is into virtual world. I for myself have not explored it yet. However, there are many ways one can express their creativity through New Media whether it is for social or professional purposes.

One of the way I express my creativity is through my facebook page. There, I can post articles, links, pictures, video or let my friends know about my interests, talk about what's going on,  express my opinion and play games when I have the time. It's like a one stop shopping place anything can happen.