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Wiki So Far

  For the class Wiki I felt unsure if I had much to contribute but once I went to the retail page I realized it was a bit less filled out than the more popular pages on our class Wiki. I’ve begun to do research on Starbucks and in particular the Starbucks app and their reward program. For a company that relies on in-person business (it’s hard to deliver fresh coffee) they have made great strides on using new media to their advantage and remove many roadblocks to their consumer for easier access for consumption. As I gather more research I will update the retail Wiki and work towards editing the whole page for consistency.

P2P

     File sharing is the transfer of digital media from one location to another. This comes in many forms, such as with file location servers like DropBox or Google Drive, sending media through emails or messenger. P2P file sharing enables this transfer of files using third party sites which allow uploading files and sharing the link for others to download said files.       According to Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios, “ People have swapped illegal copies of songs, television shows, and movies on the Internet for years. The slow download process, often using a peer-to-peer technology called BitTorrent, required patience and a modicum of sophistication by users. Now, users do not even have to download. Using a search engine, anyone can find free copies of movies, still in theaters, in a matter of minutes.”      P2P file-sharing can consist of personal property that is open for distribution, but it is more commonly used as a wa...

Advice

     If I were hired by Baruch College, there are several areas in which I would recommend the school to implement new media for improvement. Primarily, there would be a greater push for access to online reading materials. While textbooks are important and have their place in academia, for a vast majority of students the expense of old school textbooks can be a roadblock to success. Baruch is primarily home to students of lower socioeconomic status than other universities and asking students to spend hundreds of dollars on books they won't read again after the completion of one course is tone-deaf. Many students complain about the books they are forced to buy simply for access codes to certain platforms, with the actual learning material coming from other more accessible resources.      I would suggest these courses reevaluate their methods and chose teaching material that is free or affordable and more accessible than expensive textbooks. In certain course...

Privacy

       With all of the wealth of knowledge and communication opportunities that new media provides, there is also the endless risk of a lack of privacy and information mining. New media thrives on the production of “everyday” people, and users can be producers even without knowing it.       If you use Facebook or Youtube but never make a post or upload a video, you’re still producing something valuable: data. What you like, what posts you interact with, which videos grab your attention, all of this usage is how you produce valuable information for the developers of new media and the advertising executives who are purchasers of this data. You can make as many attempts to live a private life by not willingly posting about yourself but still have information about yourself not be as confidential as you expected. It has been seen time and time again of the numerous data breaches ranging from social media logins to valuable bank information.  ...