Comments on some one else presentation

All the presentation was geat. I enjoy all of them. Among them I like Anselmo Bailo.'s presentation. His presntation was great and infromative. Being a business student it is important to know how we can make more money with small investment. Anselmo gives very good examples of how businesss make money in recent decades. New media helps business to save money in advertisement and make more money by attractng more customers. Nowadays business can do free advertisement by using new media technologies like blogs, social networking sites etc. The cost for old media(T.V, Newspapers, Magazines etc) advertisement are double than the cost of doing advertisement in New media. Threfore it's great to know how we can use New Media for business progress.

My Wiki class So Far

I am really excited to work on wiki. I contribute some important information about Social Networkinng and Privacy Section. I really enjoy doing research and editing in wiki. Beside that most interesting thing is that we can help each other to add information which is very important for collaboration. I have edited few section in our wiki. For example, Social Networking and Privacy, Social Networking and business, Virtual world, Social Networking and Economics etc. It was very good experience to work on wiki.There is saying , " Sharing is caring" and I think wiki does that because we have to share information an also have to care about other contributors. I think this was great class and I learned a lot.

My term presentation

"Social networking and Loss of privacy"
Individuals are increasingly using social networking sites to keep in touch with friends, family,to find jobs and enchance their carrier.According to the online survey about Facebook users, they reported that in average, people spend about 38.86 minutes each day and have friends more than 25 to 1000. Sometimes information gleaned from such sites are useful to find thieves too. However informations shared in social networks have negative conquiences. Providing name ,date of birth and list of friends users are revealing more than enough.
Most of the social networking sites have been used in assessing employment candidancy and that student have been suspended or criminally charged on basis of information posted in face book. Beside that personal information shared in social networking sites when combined together with new technologies for gathering and compiling data can create a finger print of behaviors. Those personal information provides opportunities not only for legimate business purpose but also for wicked aim of identity thieves.
Privacy preferences project (p3p) developed by World Wide Web Consortium(W3C), provides a simple automated way for users to control who has access to their personal information on the web sites they visites. P3P provides a standarized frame wokr of privacy relate dissues, covering all the aspect of a web sites or orgination's online privacy polices. But, P3P can not protect the privacy of users in cuntries or juridictions with insuficient data privacy laws.

Privacy & Confidentiality

In present time, Privacy and confidentiality are big issues of new media. We should be very careful when we use new media.Before people didn't realize that there could be identity theft via new media. Facebook, Myspace etc has big issue of privacy now.People without knowing about identity theft, they give their real name ,address, phone number as well as date of birth.For people who are engage in stealling other inormation this type of inormaton are really useful for them, which is risky for us as we loss our privacy.They could sale our information to other buinesses for their own profits.
Besides that when we post our personal photos online in social networks or other form of new media, all people in the world can view our photo which is not private and confidential. We are lossing our privacy without knowing it. People can also know our friend circle through social networks.
Some how, there is way to keep track of this privacy and confidentiality problem. When we create our profile we should be very careful and smart. Do not give your real name and address and click on the options where it say friends only can view your profile. If we do that, it will help a little bit to keep our privacy within friends only. But we cann't gurantee that facebook or other social network sites are is going to keep our profile safe from stealling and selling.

Advice to Baruch College

So far, Baruch has been using the effective new media for providing information to students and faculty. Baruch has been able to provide instant information through e-mails, facebook, twitter etc. These are social networks and are some examples of new media.
I think Baruch is far more ahead of using new media. I am taking new media classe therefore I know more bout new medai than ever.So,I think Baruch need to do some more advertise or give some more information about new media to attract other students who might be interested to take this class. This is actually very interesting class. I was able to use Baruch wiki and explore trough it.

So far everything is fine but if they allow student to use new media to sell and buy books and other products would be great. This will save student's money and time. I think selling online to our fellows is better that selling our books in bookstore. This will also makes our college clean as students will stop posting on wall. Beside that I think Baruch should allow students to write review about the classes they already took by using new media. This might help other students.They have been using blackboard but I think they should satrt using wiki for collaboration

My New Media Class- So Far

Blogs,e-magazine,pandora,mashups,podcast,voip,video on you tube,flicker, virtual world etc are some example of new media which was inspired by old media with the combination of internet. Without internet it is impossiblre to create these new media. Internet has palyed fundamental role for the invention of new media. Only in the presence of internet we will be able to use the new media and take advantages.
Now a days people are using blogs to release their new articles instead of same old paper based news.For example news reporter don't have to wait till next morning to release their news articles in newspaper. In the same time public also able to read the blogs as soon as they are posted. In one of the reading I find it most interesting that now we have facinating online video culture. DIV tools fro shooting ,editing and broadcasting videos are not just changing who uses the medium . They are changing how we use it. we are developing a new language of video-forms that let us say different things and may be think different ways.


Work cited
Clive Thompson."Clive Thompson On How You Tube Changes the Way We Think." Wired Magazine:17.01. 12/22/08

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

The whole world is computerized. So it is more efficient to create something virtually rather than making real product to make better decisions in business, which reduce cost of doing business. Beside that Virtual world is also beneficial to the employeer to train his/her emplyoees for better performance in their business. For instance employees working in sales department can logon to virtual world and can interact with virtual customers like he/she does in reality but not very confident about themselves.This will help both employee and employeer to perform best in their business.
Virtual world is one of the tools that allows people in the socity to communicate and to socialize.Some people are shy or don't want to talk in fornt of mass, they can logon to virtual world and can learn or practice to communicate and socialize.They can go for dates, movies etc in the virtual world which they never did or thought about.
Everything has positive and negative impact on people. Likewise Virtual world is also one of the tool for social network which allow people to communicate in the virtual world. We can create our avatar in second life and can do or go whereever we want through the virtual world.For example I live in Nepal, if I want to go to Downtown Manhattan club I can go threre just by logging in to the virtual world and can see the virtual envronment just like real environment. This good in one way that I can enjoy few minutes but when I come back to reality it might makes me sad or depressedthat it's not the reality. Beside that in Virtual world people might use that technology to Launder money. Threre is a risk of criminals too.
So I think whatever the technology is, people must find the best way to use it. If we use for negative purposes that might be risky but if we use these technology effectively then it will be very beneficail for everybody.

work Citation

1. At hearing,Real and Virtual Worlds Collide:Forget C-SPAN:Congress Goes Interactive .Mike Musgrove .2008, April 2. TheWashing Post ,pg# D03.