New Media Blog - Roni Avshalumov

With new media there are a lot of issues when it comes to privacy and confidentiality. In social media people are putting up information about themselves that they don't believe is that big of a deal. This information is viewed by many which takes away your privacy and also the media platforms such as Facebook and google can sell your information to other parties. This isn't private at all as anything you search online or post will always stay there and will be seen as part of your name. It doesn't seem like any of peoples use of new media online, especially the popular platforms, are private.  It goes to show that privacy is hard to maintain nowadays even when you aren't doing anything wrong and are just browsing the web or using social media. 

Baruch colleges can use some improvements and new media can help in many ways. Social media can help improve Baruch college by advertising the school and its great reputation to newcomers. Also new media can help create a platform to have students find recommendations for teachers and give advice on which major or career can best suit an individual. Also getting textbooks online can be improved with new media, especially buying used ones from previous students. New media can also help improve signing up for classes by having a more efficient way of doing that.

I used Bitmoji which is a popular app to create an avatar of myself. This avatar can be used in multiple apps such as snap chat and you can use it in texting as well. To create this avatar I first downloaded the app and then I followed step by step by changing one facial feature at a time. Once I had all of this done, I changed the clothes as well for this avatar. After creating this avatar that looks like me you receive different pics and gestures that has this avatar as a part of it. An example can be show below as certain ones are recommended when you text a certain word or depending on the trend that is going around. Since Halloween is today, You can see below one of my avatars in a Halloween theme. This is such a great and fun way to be creative in your messages and in your social media. It is being used by many and the creation process is very detailed and interesting to do.

New media fosters creativity in a wide variety of ways and has changed the way people use information and the way people think. One huge reason that new media is helping creativity grow is because now more people can create and share theior creativity online as before they couldn't. According to the article YouTube Traffic Characterization: A view from the edge by Phillipa Gill, Martin Arlitt, Zongpeng Li, Anirban Mahanti, it states that "The Web is slowly but steadily undergoing a metamor-phosis as more and more users are able to create, share, and distribute content on the web."This is very true as people can share on blogs such as this one, YouTube as a way to create video content, and many other ways. Having more of a platform and new technology on peoples side helps creativity grow as you can execute your thoughts in ways never seen before. More information is available for us to use and learn from and seeing how so many people share their creativity online makes oth

Virtual reality has become increasingly popular in our current time and it seems like everyone is trying to get their hands on one to try it out. Virtual worlds are used for much more than just entertainment though as they can be used for military training, entertainment through video games, and other training as well whether medical or anything hands on. There are many pros and cons to virtual worlds. The pros include preparing people for a job or task such as with military training which can help save lives. The cons include its difficult to make it very realistic so far and it is very costly to create the right worlds. Virtual worlds foster so much creativity and an example includes using it in the workplace. According to the CNN article, Going to the virtual office in the second life by Mark Tutton, " Virtual community Second Life is seeking to tap into that market by creating a new tool that allows businesses to have virtual meetings on their own computer networks." This

A Twitter discussion is much different than a blackboard discussion and in class discussion. A Blackboard discussion is more organized as it just shows threads and the people who reply are right under it while on twitter its all scattered. Twitter discussions also have minimal number of characters but this can be fixed if you tweet multiple times. An in class discussion is very different as you are talking face to face and hearing each other and seeing each others interaction as opposed to proofreading what you write and replying to a post. Twitter does feel more lively to me and more engaging in my opinion.