The Next New Thing

In my opinion, the next new generation of New Media (The Next New Thing) will work around virtual reality because virtual reality let us explore different worlds at the same time in the same space and nowadays that’s what society is following. I believe that in some years everyone will have their own virtual reality glasses at home and there will exist the possibility of discovering new virtual worlds after work, creating new communities, having virtual spaces where you can just go from your coach, meeting people in these new worlds that can be representations of real places or a totally new place where people express their creativity. Moreover, in these new virtual communities people would be able to express themselves by writing, shearing files or just by exploring that world with others. Companies will have the opportunity to use those communities to sell, advertise and commercialize new products.

Every day I realized that the world for new media is constantly changing, for this reason all the companies that are related to that world should change every day in order to satisfy the need of the future society. Also, we can say that the new media have a close relation to technology and new ways to spread information, information available to anyone but each day more segmented according to the interests and lifestyle of each person.

P2P File Sharing

What is file sharing?

File sharing it is the action of sharing all kind of files, it is usually referring to the action of sharing computer data by providing access or distributing this specific digital media, for example computer programs, multimedia, documents, etc. The advantage of file shearing is that a user who wants to share a file is able to share it to a reduced or big number of people in a moment.

 

What is P2P File sharing?

In order to define P2P file sharing we need to understand what P2P is. P2P (Peer-to-Peer) it is a decentralized system, what means that it is not use a central server, that allows a communication between both peers using a network. Therefore a P2P file shearing is just a file sharing using this P2P structure

 

What are some examples of P2P file sharing?

A good and innovative example is the one that is state in the article Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other, this case is not just a good example of P2P file sharing it is also an innovative business model. Instead of using the classic methods to get a loan, people is getting these loans by using this P2P file shearing system, as we can see in the article the system works following the next schem: “Investors put up the money to fund the loans; typically they’ll have pieces of hundreds, even thousands of loans which are ranked according to risk. An investor’s rate of return will vary accordingly.”

The fact that people are better connected every day and without a need of supervision, guaranteed data security and accessibility around the world allows new business models to be developed to meet the new needs of society.

Wiki so far

In order to make my contribution to our wiki I have decided to edit some parts of the “Dance” subject because during my whole life I have received different dance classes and I think I can add some important information.

Also I am working on create a new subject “UAVs” which means unmanned aerial vehicle or better known as drone, I am a drone technology lover and I know that I can start giving some important information about this technology.

Privacy & Confidentiality

New media gives us the opportunity to talk and be connected with people and the world at any time we want, for this reason we are constantly shearing our experiences, what we like and what we don’t like, what we want, opinions, intentions to do something or participate in events, routines and life styles, etc. We are shearing our life, and as a company this is the biggest concern that they have, customer information. Some social networks have high levels of privacy settings, but that does not mean that what we post on our social media is 100% private and we have to be really careful with what kind of information we are posting. This is a big problem first because companies can use this information in order to control society, make them buy more or dislike another product, and even if is not a direct problem, the capacity to decide for ourselves should be important for all of us. Second because this information will be always in the network, and sometimes companies research future employees in order to know how they act in social media and what kind of people they are hiring.

Finally, the last factor to have into account is that sometimes people use the same password for all their social media accounts, and sometimes these passwords are not the safer ones. Also, some social networks let the users to connect their accounts, or use one to open another, as Facebook and Instagram, therefore is easier to lose the control of all of them.

Advice to the College

In my opinion Brooklyn College has the resources to implement a great new media management, it has a website and an account of all the most important social media as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Linkedin. Some of the social media accounts have been managed correctly, as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, by posting almost every day, varied content, and a direct relationship with the college. YouTube and Linkedin have less activity, YouTube for example does not have a new video from 4 months ago and the actual content is not interesting for students, it is too academic and this kind of content should not be in the YouTube site of Booklyn College, perhaps in an academic site. The Linkedin account, for example, has a correct content but it does not have the activity that it should have, they need to post more frequently.

On another hand, Brooklyn College website is outdated and messy, it has all the information students need but the way as they are presenting this information is not easy to follow, people do not want to look for information in that website, and the people that look for information spend a lot of time doing it.

My first advice is to change the web site, by selecting the real important information, the information which a current or future student want to find, and also changing the format for something more minimalistic, less letters and sub parts and more linked information. My second advice is to relate all their social media, posting YouTube links on Facebook, Facebook post on the website, or Instagram images on twitter, any relation would be good for the college new media. And finally, they should create a team of people which would develops these new media, a posting plan for each resource, and camping creation to increase the activity on their social networks.

Creativity and New Media

I am a recipe video fan, so I decided to make my own recipe video of mushroom risotto and prove that anyone can share with the world their cooking skills:

Creativity

As we know New Media is not just a way of new communications, it is also a tool that let users to control new realities and give them power over it. More over as technology increases the possibilities to explore and create also increase. Technology is breaking down the boundaries that don’t let us creating; nowadays those boundaries are money, space and the tools needed.

In social networks, nowadays you can have friends all around the world and now almost instantly what are they doing, what are they thinking and what are their future plans, we don’t have limits to know new people and maintain a relationship  with them.

In virtual realities, users find a whole new world to build their thoughts, to explore what they like, and to express they creativity. It doesn’t matter what kind of world you want to build, if you like something you can create it.

In addition, we can see how people is also able to create new things from something already created, as we can see in the article Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why? they create a parody of Disney characters.

Finally, we can say we are in the time of innovation with virtual worlds, no boundaries between people, acceptance and tolerance about new perspectives and technology going faster than ever.