Media Summer 2017

                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

         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

                 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