Wiki So Far

I contributed to the YouTube wiki page. I added another section called YouTube TV. The day it launched, I found an article with the information on the new developing technology. YouTube took on another platform of media. They are in the progress of building this new subscription service. This service will contribute to the necessity of cable being obsolete, such has Netflix and Hulu programs. I will continue to research this topic as it is still developing. 

I have also been going through the wiki pages to see if any catch my eye for more research. Although looking through social networking, I want to contribute the research I did for my paper. The topic was social networking so I have a lot of knowledge I want to share on the subject. 

P2P

File sharing is the ability to contribute your own work or files to other people.


According to NMA Staff in "Content producers should take advantage of P2P, not fear it"  they specify that P2P file sharing is peer to peer distribution of content.

For example, The Pirate Bay is a website when you can share files with other peers. The initial concept of the site was to advertise the Steal This File. There are other blogs notated in this blog such as "Digg, Slashdot, and BoingBoing" to bring people together to download multiple files.

Privacy

New media comes with plenty of issues with privacy and confidentiality. For example, In the New York Times, Tim Arango published an article "As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes" where he goes into depth about the copyright issues on YouTube. Warner Music has a partnership with YouTube to monitor footage uploaded by anybody with possible issues of copyright issues. Resulting in these issues people are subjected for their videos to be monitored on a daily basis which violates privacy at a certain level. Also videos do get taken down if there is an issue found with it. Another article in Wired by David Kravets, goes into detail about how Google was opting to manually go through copyright issues that arise on Youtube. However this article was updated two days later stating that Google has retracted that statement. Youtube does need to manually go through the videos rather than taking it down automatically because some of the content that is published do not violate any rules of confidentiality and privacy. These are some issues that arise in new media and privacy.

Advice

  Using new media to improve Baruch can initiate constant evolving. As students we use media to research, to be up to date, and share amongst each other. Suggestions I can make is suggesting a platform that includes all of the new media we can get. As in having one domain for vlogging, blogging, posting, sharing, etc. Having all these accessible concepts, allows us as students to find everything in one content. Instead of having different accounts through different platforms, having to remember passwords and different usernames. There should be news and entertainment occuring together to give the most information at once. Speed and consistency is what we seek when looking for information. To have an organized domain appealing to everybody at every demographic and putting a creative spin on it is what I would suggest for applying new media to Baruch. It would have to be like nothing created before, which is why suggesting everything in one domain would give more access at a faster rate.