The Next New Thing

      I think the development to new media will be based on the individual and associated with the scenes which have been customized. This will need sensors, wearable equipment and multi-screen with.

At present, we just use a mobile devices with single screen to access the media and search the information what we may need. I wish that we can use multi-screen interaction with the information to make virtual world more realists with our life, it should involve more diversified, life information, multiple function.

The virtual augmented reality technology which not only provide a picture, or sound or text, it also can experience our wild range imagination, multi-dimension movies, virtual studio broadcast, virtual product display, immersion news, it allow users to experience a higher degree of customization of the media experience.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

    I don’t have contributed to the class wiki yet. I am very interesting in travelling, I am doing some research on travelling for college student in low cost involve all accommodation. I hope can add some pictures and website links that people can search very easily. . 

P2P File Sharing

File sharing is the way that sharing your personal date or space in a network with access privilege, through the network, people are able to read it or even use the same file such as copy it, print it.

The term of P2P is refer to “peer to peer” networking for file sharing software applications. P2P file sharing allows users to access and function without the need for special server devices such as books, music, movies, and games.  Like Google which is the nation's largest peer-to-peer lender, it gets borrowers and lenders together outside the conventional banking system. Google's move and the actions of other big players reflect a growing interest in peer-to-peer lending. People can use a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content.

-   DistriBrute is the world’s first peer-to-peer (P2P) desktop deployment product especially  developed for business use

-        Tribler, developed at the Delft University of Technology and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,  is an open source social interactive Peer-to-Peer client with integrated search engine, video and  audio player.

-       Ourmedia.org, the Open Media Directory, offers free and legal public domain movies through  BitTorrent

Privacy

      I read from the website, there were more than 300,000 personal records were compromised in University of Maryland. The college thinks that the hacker or hackers must have had a “very significant understanding” of how the school’s data are designed and protected. The security breach appears to be in contrast with typical attacks, in which “someone left the door open,” creating an easy opportunity for any hacker. That is the influence of technology on the processing of personal and private information.

      I remember someone told me before, there were no secret in Facebook, and everyone can see what you posted. That is why I never post any private information in Facebook.  On the other hand. We need to consider the issues when submitting a protocol. Protocols should be designed to minimize the need to collect and maintain identifiable information, and  it must take measures to protect the security of private information. 

Advice

Today’s college students have grown up communicating and sharing experiences on college media sites. College using the power of networks and engaging content to attract students, interact with current students and stay connected with other colleges. I have some advice to improve our college new media.

1.    Online tutoring, due to the international students are increase. Students are able to interact with a school’s campus life 24/7 through the power of social media. Many students would like to ask questions and share feedback. It will show that being helpful and responsive in college media where the students can communicate with their school.

2.     I think there will be more and more international students study in the college. Our college social media should make multiple language version for students and their families.  Their families love seeing some of the more engaging activities that students have been doing. Parents love seeing what they are doing outside of the academic arena that makes the college stand

3.    I believe that it would be helpful if we can see the student blog as an engagement tool with current students, and also a recruitment tool for prospective students.

Creativity and New Media

It is the time for Halloween costume, Second Life put the culture and life habit of the real-world into the virtual world. It allow users to experience the life in virtual world which they want to try in real life. Therefore, you will feel that the close connection between real life and virtual world.

Creative

    In an article Creators, Audiences, and New Media: Creativity in an Interactive Environment by Isacc Bell, the author says that the creative impulse has always been shaped by the technology used to express our ideas. Virtual worlds enable and encourage creativity on the part of their members. Nowadays, some people can use digital software to isolated instrumental elements and generate new collaboration in the new beat. New media can transmit any information what you need through connection and conversation. In the school, the teacher may also use digital software to create the smart board and motivate the student’s engagement.  It usually contains teacher’s lecture, creative participation and the feedback.