Wiki So Far

So far I have not contributed at all to our collaborative wiki page, but I have though about how I would like to add value and content. Instead of adding a new page, which I would have done if I were creative enough, I would like to add on to other pages. Specifically, I would like to add content into the investing and advertising page. Some ideas I have on the investing is to elaborate on the trading platforms because I believe more can be said about it. Regarding the advertising page, I would like to add information dealing with its costs, especially over the years, as well as its benefits.

P2P

File Sharing is the distribution of files through online means, in an effort to share with others a particular document, picture, video, program or even e-books. The main point of file sharing is a cheap, but most likely illegal alternative to having the files in your possession. There are many different ways these files can be shared, some include physically giving a file (USB), downloading off websites, etc.
P2P File Sharing is a form of the above-mentioned type which stands for Peer to Peer. This type of file sharing is the process of sharing files from an end-user (computer) to another computer directly. People use P2P FS in order to share large files like audio clips, videos, music, movies, and other sorts of large documents. Many companies use P2P technology in a way including Skype which actually formulated its company through P2P. But also Napster and Bittorrent are companies that brough this technology into popularity. Unsafe use of it can lead to viruses and other spyware that can harm the computer. Since this technology strips trvenue off the producers of the file, it becomes a very controversial topic that involves laws. Many wonder how duplicating physical copies may be unlawful, but doing it digitally makes sense. In the article "Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" they claim the same statement, “If you put 200 VCRs in your garage and start making and selling copies of films, you will get a visit from the police,” he said. “If you do it from a Web site, everybody says, ‘Hey, freedom of information.’" This is exactly one side of this controversial issue that we deal with file sharing.

Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and Confidentiality is a big issue with new media, as I have written a 10 page paper on. With the advancing of technology, we allow a LOT of information to be stored. Whether in Facebook or any accounts that require our information such as credit cards, we expect that our privacy be kept confidential. We we sort our credit card information in Amazon, we expect it not to be seen by any third parties. But periodically, hackers seem to get through the system and have control of this type of confidential information. This is how privacy and confidentiality is related to new media. We allow the risk when using social media as well. As much as we do not want our pictures to be seen by non-friends, it sometimes can be. Celebrities even have issues with leaked photos. We live in a society where hacking is unethical, but inevitable.

Advice

One suggestion to improve Baruch College using new media would be to create a blog only accessible to Baruch students. It can be similar to a reddit post, or a Facebook closed group page. In this blog post, we will post a topic, such as CUNY First, CUNY Portal, registration, textbooks; people will be allowed to post their opinions on the way Baruch is running things. Rather than improving one aspect, we can try to reach more of the students. If many of the students have the same opinion, it is obvious what the next step would be to take. Using blogs has helped people communicate and even lead to arrests, as the story in Brooklyn. If blogs has this type of power, than it should be able to civilize a school on a certain issue.