Inspired by the UberPool system and car-sharing system, the next possible new media could be an application that mix both systems. The application I am thinking of could enable people who have both close departure points and arrival points (like UberPool evaluate it) to travel together through this distance. This system would benefit both the…
Our Class Wiki – So Far
For the wiki assignment, I created the P2P page. So I explained what was pear-2-pear, then I showed what for it was used (P2P file sharing and distributed computing) and finally I gave examples of P2P file sharing software such as Napster and BitTorrent. I am also currently gathering information about technologies to complete the…
P2P File Sharing
What is file sharing ? File sharing is a file transfer technique consisting in distributing or giving remote access to digital data via a computer network. It can be files of all kinds : software, books, video, audio, etc… Two file sharing techniques currently exist : The first one is the centralized hosting (client-server model)…
Privacy & Confidentiality
Privacy and confidentiality are big issues of new media today. Social networking websites, such as Facebook especially, are facing privacy, confidentiality and security problems and critics. To me, there are 2 issues when speaking about privacy and confidentiality : the first one are the parameters, which are controllable, as the users can decide to set…
Advice to Brooklyn College
Nowadays it is becoming very common for universities to create their own website, on which they publish essential information about what is the purpose of the university, its goals, the classes it offers, the life on the campus, the event involving the university, the sport-life, etc… A great use of New Media is therefore vital…
Creativity & New Media
Hey everyone ! It’s already been 3 months that I am in NYC (as you might have noticed it, I am an international student from France) and last week my parents visited me for one week. We did a lot of things, had a lot of great moments and took a lot of photos. Therefore,…
Creativity
Creativity is fostered by new media in many ways. Actually, new media are so easy to use and have only a few limits that they enable to do a lot of things, like creating your own blog, video or virtual character. Some new media, such as Instagram or Tumblr enable to take pictures, then modify…
Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds
A virtual world is an artificial world or a “computer-based simulated environment”created by a computer software, which is able to host a community of users in the form of avatars who have the capacity to simultaneously and independently move, explore the world and interact with each other in this virtual world. The representation of the…
Blog about Twitter
How does a Twitter discussion compared to a Blackboard discussion ? A Twitter discussion is an online discussion that starts when a user post a tweet on a subject and other users comment this tweet and give their opinion on it. Anybody can see and read a public tweet and the discussion that follows it…
Social Networking Sites
The principle of all the following social networking sites is to allow users to create a public profile and exchange information with other users they have in their « friend list » and who they usually already knew (have some family, friend or professional connections) or they sometimes also just met on the online platform….
Social networking
A social network is a set of individuals or organizations connected by regular social interactions. The term social media site usually refers to a website that enables people to build a network of friends or business contacts and provides its members with tools and interaction, presentation and communication interfaces, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Social…
New Media vs Old Media
What kinds of technologies are part of new media and how do we distinguish new media from old media ? Humans are “tools’ builders”, which means that men don’t just satisfy themselves with their own body. Indeed, they need to create tools to be more efficient. Therefore technology is as old as human. Technologies amplify…
Margot Blog : New Media in a Connected World 