WiKi So Far

At the moment I have not added any new content to any of the pages. I will be looking into researching more information about social networking to add to the page. I think more information about the effects of social networking sites on mental health is needed. I have heavily edited the layout of the Social Networking site. The layout did not follow the proper layouts deemed necessary for the project. There was no introduction before we reached the contents page. I looked at the Youtube example as a reference. The Social Networking wiki page was very hard to follow because all the headings weren’t paired accordingly. There was a lot of repetition of heading titles and of unnecessary information that did not pertain to social networking. I sorted the contents of the page so it would flow better and feel natural because the other format was all over the place. It gave me anxiety to look at it which is why I worked on it until it was properly organized. I deleted repeated images and formatted the size and positions of some images because they weren’t adequately positioned in the site. I did my best to reduce the amount of fourth headers. Instead I bolded and added a line underneath the title as a divider. Another wiki page I am interested on working on is education and maybe news. I have a better idea of what I’ll do for the education site but I need to research more about what to add to news if I decide to do it as well.

P2P

Did you illegally download music from sites such as LimeWire when everyone was doing it instead of buying CDs? I sure did! I was about thirteen years old and I had no idea that what I was doing was known as peer to peer sharing(P2P). It differs slightly from file sharing. File sharing is when a file is shared from computer to computer through the internet. Example of fire sharing sites are Dropbox, Google Drive, and One Drive. Peer to peer sharing works similarly as file sharing. It is the sharing of digital media over the internet. Digital media can range from music to books. Peer to peer sharing is easy because it is done through peer to peer networking technology. Besides LimeWire, another example of this technology is uTorrent and Frostwire. Eventually, peer to peer sharing became outdated. According to the article “Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?”, downloading digital media is getting replaced by streaming it instead. Content is getting streamed at a faster rate than downloading it.

Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" by ERIC PFANNER, The New York Times, April 13, 2009, p. B4. Available athttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/technology/internet/13iht-piracy13.html

Privacy

New media and issues of privacy and confidentiality are always brought up together. They go hand and hand for all the wrong reasons. New media has made it impossible for one’s information to be private and confidential. The new media users themselves unknowingly expose themselves too much over the web. They end up putting out a lot of delicate information that can make it easier for anyone to track them down and follow their every movement. The information found on the web is an easy way to find a perfect victim for identity fraud. The new media sites are also selling their user information to other companies. They can do so because of the terms and conditions that the users agree to when they sign up. Once the user signs up he or she has given up their right to privacy. Privacy on these sites are not guaranteed. Confidentiality depends on how good the new media’s cyber security is when it comes to hacking.

Advice

Baruch College can benefit a lot from introducing new media more into classrooms. It is a fun way for students to conduct discussions on platforms that they are very familiar with. The newer generations can easily adjust to these changes. A few examples of new media that can be used for class discussions are Twitter and blogs. These tools will be especially helpful in an English course. Students can express their opinions and interpretations of a text onto a blog for the class to see and comment on. It is a more comfortable setting for students to truly express themselves.

I believe Baruch College can also use new media to better communicate with its students and provide them with that sense of community that colleges wish for their students. Baruch College is a commuter school making it difficult to get their students to feel they are part of a close community. They should advertise more of their social media pages because they can be very useful to follow for current news involving the university.