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                The new media that I see as a possibility for society is virtual worlds. It will be sort of like the movie The Matrix where you indulge into another world. With the increase popularity of virtual reality and technology advancing in this sector very rapidly with investments from big companies such as Facebook, Samsung, and Oracle to name few, it’s only a matter of time before society learns to use it more frequent.                 The new media that I have in mind would include virtual hubs, which would be small rooms that have a high tech chair for comfort, Virtual reality glasses and cables that will connect to the back of your head/brain. I know this doesn’t exist yet, but please just imagine it. These cables will be connected to your brain in some sort of way so that they can transmit the 5 senses of the virtual world to you. Individuals will be able to submerge into other worlds and take trips to places they have never imagined. This to me is the futu
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P2P

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         With the development of the World Wide Web and the accessibility of the internet allowed for individuals to not only share ideas and information but digital store material such as music, movies, documents, photos and games between people in the web. File sharing is exactly what its name say’s, its share files! You are sharing or offering access to files. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing is one of the methods for file sharing. In P2P file sharing you are allowing users to directly access, download and edit files. In the article “ The BitTorent effect ” by Clive Thompson, we get the full insight of BitTorrent and its creator Bram Cohen. BitTorrent has become one of the most successful P2P programs ever according to the article. Although P2P allows the sharing of files, BitTorrent brings a bit of a twist while using P2P and lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3 file. The code tha
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Privacy

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                 With the new media that has been developed alongside the new technology, privacy and confidentiality have become huge issues. This is especially true with Social networking platforms since anybody who has access to a computer and internet can search for you and find pictures, information and locations of your individual self. When you have a social media platform you don’t only have your friends as an audience but pretty much everybody who has internet. The exposure of your personal information can lead to sexual harassment, stalking, and other types of cyber-attacks that invade your privacy. Your confidentiality and privacy are in great danger if the right steps are not taken to protect them. Social Media platforms have settings where you could protect yourself form these great dangers but make it difficult to understand and change setting so that posts can be for exclusive viewing of family and friends in your network. The best example is the recent new featu
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Creativity and New Media

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                     I have never really had the time to check out these virtual reality worlds out since I played runescape back in middle school. With this Assignment I had the opportunity to look for some virtual reality worlds and I did exactly that. After looking at some of these websites I found out how expensive living another life could be! Anyways I chose this website Second Life, which allowed me to create my own avatar and submerge into another world. The process of signing up was very interesting as it seems that everything these days is connected with Facebook, because at the end of the day they have all your information and it allows the virtual world to be shared with your friends.                                                  After signing up I was given the choice to sign up to a free or premium account. It blows my mind that somebody would actually pay $6 to have an avatar and create his own house!   I obviously chose the free account and was able
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Creativity

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                                                                          New Media has brought together a whole new dimension to the way people live their lives. I want to focus on the employment/jobs that it has bought over these past few years for creatives. In the paper, “ YouTube TrafficCharacterization: A view from the Edge ”, we get an idea of how YouTube allows the sharing of creativity. According to the estimates found in this study, 100 million video views are recorded in YouTube per day. It also states that YouTube accounts for approximately 60% of the videos watched on the Internet. Lastly more than 65, videos are uploaded per day.   All these numbers are extraordinary, however this study was done in 2007. The numbers should be way higher after 10 years. Today videos get viewed in the millions and some even hit the billions. With all this viewership marketing departments have seen this as a gateway to promote their products. Many individuals are hired with the pu
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Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

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It’s 2017 and virtual reality is stronger than ever. I myself haven’t gotten into the wave of joining virtual worlds or experiencing virtual reality with the headsets that are now available, but have seen great review and excitement. In a conference I recently attended we focused on the good things of virtual reality, such as using it in medicine and preparing the doctors of tomorrow. There was also the though of using virtual reality for designing experiments, traveling, and building. All of these things are really exciting for the future of our society. However virtual reality worlds has its cons, as discussed in the conference, Virtual reality has the power to make you live in another world, cause disruptive behavior, could cause identity issues, and no rules to was is fair in the virtual world. These were just some of the things discussed. We further see this in the article by News24, “ Virtual world may impact real world behavior ”, the article examines taking on heroic o
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Social Networking Sites

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                                Where should I start? Like I had said previously in one of my posts I did not get into any social networking site until this past September when I was sort of forced to make some (read below). I mean I did have a Facebook back in middle school and towards the beginning of High School but than it got so annoying plus none of my friends were there because they were moving into the new thing at that time, which was Instagram. I never made it too Instagrm because I have a hard time taking pictures, it’s just not my thing. I walked away from social media for about 3 years, until I had to make a Facebook account for a group project in my English class. I barely use Facebook these days unless someone sends me an invite for an event and I have to accept or my family from Ecuador wants to do a video call. It’s simply not that fun, especially with all the video advertisements that I just saw when I opened it.               Where do I start with Twitte
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