Our Class Wiki - So Far

I have not done any contributions to class Wiki yet. I want to use the research I have done for term paper. My research was about using New Media technology in Education, how and where it can help and where it should be controlled more strictly. I collected a lot of information from scholarly articles and research papers with actual experiments. 

P2P File Sharing

File sharing is practice of distrubuting electronic files (docs, music, videos and etc.) through Internet. It is used to share useful information for business or to share files for entertainment purposes. 

P2P file sharing is form of file sharing that involves users exchanging e-files directly through Web. P2P is a technique that enables many connected computers work as one sharing not only data but also hardware resources that can be accessed remotely.

Examples of this can be file sharing web site like RapidShare, Kazaa, The Pirate Bay, and software like BitTorrent. According to "The BitTorrent Effect" article from WIRED, BitTorrent allows sharing files that are stored on ones computer with everyone else, and what's special about this software is that by using P2P technique it allows to download files from different sources that are located in different place simultaneously increasing the speed of the download from hours to minutes. 

Privacy & Confidentiality

As Joe Nocera, in his article on New York Times ‘The Wild West of Privacy,’ points out care for personal privacy is pretty much out the window. Companies collect a lot of information and data about our lives and habits. They make millions of dollars selling that data to anyone who is wants to buy. Facebook is probably is experience on this. The app on our phones can track your locations and frequently visited geographic places, on top of tracking our browsing habits, to give us relative advertisement. It's amazing how these site magically advertise a restaurant or a retail store you passed by recently or a product that you searched using internet. I guess for the most part, they are just trying to make money without actually hurting us, but these kinds of activities will backfire one day that no one will see its coming.

Advice to Baruch College

I guess I would not be the first choice to hire as a new media promoter since I am not so involved in posting and tweeting and so on. However, if I would make suggestions to Baruch College in using new media, I would say school needs to be more active and responsive to the students on social media sites and through other tools of new media. I follow few Baruch pages on Facebook, and for the most part I see frequent posts and announcements. But, I feel like there should be more useful and relevant information. I think announcements like school closed days, class cancellations, holidays and schedule changes needs to be distributed through social media sites, emails and etc. Distributing useful information as above doesn't cost anything on the digital world.