About My Term Research Paper

My paper is about Social Networking sites and if that is better or worse than the real thing. I give an overview in the first paragraph about the positives and negatives of social networking sites and face to face networking. I also talk about the different networking sites and what they provide to the public. My second paragraph goes on to talk about legal issues surrounding these networking sites and how they can ruin lives and social skills.
The third paragraph starts getting into the nitty gritty of it where people explore whether lives were simpler or harder before these sites came around, the annoyances that come with it, and whether society gives a positive effect. I also point out whether this is all good from a marketing standpoint for businesss. The next paragraph is rather brief in showing people who prefer face to face vs social networking.
Lastly, I come to talk about the future these social networks mean to us, and how to balance virtual networks and social skills. Most of my research came from online journals or publications and various newspapers and websites.
My paper contributes to "New Media" because it opens people up to other options in networking and how negative or positively it really affects us.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

What I contributed to the wiki has a lot to do about what I have learned whilst researching my research paper. I've added the "downsides to facebook" in New media in entertainment. Also How the New Media are Used in Business, I've edited the section labeled "New Media Technologies in Business". This section described how to successfully use new media in business and how to make it effectively work throughout the business. The downsides to facebook is hopefully an eye opener to people who seem to reveal too much on their social networking pages.

The next new thing..

Public journalism has been getting criticism in the social media field and in the public and one way to lessen the negative buzz is to create a user-generated content and citizen journalism. There can be made a social media feature to get people to collaborate to solve problems in the offline world. What this means for users is a sort of means of integrating. The public can engage in problemsolving without leaving their home, they can engage in the discussion and search for a solution by sitting at home rather than the old fashioned public meetings.


http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/real_people_dont_have_time_for_social_media.php

Advice to Baruch College

Today, teachers complain about a lack of student motivation to write and one of the most basic and powerful ways to increase student motivation to write and communicate is to change student perceptions of audience. This is where podcasting comes in. A podcast is a web feed of audio files that is put on the internet for anyone to download. Students can then dl this onto their ipods and listen on the go since Baruch is a school "on the go". Just as blogs can provide an archived window, classroom podcasts can provide windors to the educational environment. Some ideas of podcasting would be language classes, interviews, oral histories, weekly experiments or shows, teaching powerpoints, reflective journals...etc

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

An article in Business week talked about a virtual space and whether corporations should invest in shared universes like "Second Life" or build their own proprietary worlds. This new media world was lavished with media coverage, and IBM took an interest in it. Some pros to these virtual worlds is the opportunities it provides people, it can flourish in its own version of freedom to build, create, have fun, and rise to the top. This game has actually been used for business meetings for actual real world businesses. One drawback is that this "character" would have no more personality than a robot of sorts.
People who have avators make their second lives whatever they choose, and virtual worlds offer a way of testing new ideas more freely.""We can and should view synthetic worlds as essentially unregulated playgrounds for economic organization." - Edward Castronova (Professor@ IndianU)


http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982001.htm

My New Media Class - So Far

This new media class is teaching me about the media we have surrounding us but never paid much mind to. All the morphology that is occuring around us is constant and always upgrading. We upgrade our lives year by year, we upgrade our phones, our music players, our internet, and even our old media. This is all part of a process called life and it started in 1800's. What started as paparazzi magazines has evolved into tmz and twitter where everyone can get information on celebrities. Books have now turned into electronic devices that get page turned by the touch of a button, music players have gotten so small that we can stick it into our bikinis without it being noticed. The world is changing and in my opinion getting more lazy. I enjoy reading an actual book, I do not want to be informed of a persons status 24/7, and I certainly don't want to be made into a robot in the future that gets controlled. I have recently watched "Surrogates" and it reminds me a lot of what we are becoming, in this movie everyone has a type of "surrogate" robot that they can manipulate with their head whilst they stay in this box type machine at home. This robot can be molded into whatever they desire and work, play, eat, etc for them. It is a virtual world and hopefully we do not become that.






http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_history.htm
http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_oldvnew.htm

Social Networking

Social networking in the corporate setting has its downturns as well as the positives. LinkedIn is a popular networking site where people of corporate companies can add each other and "link up". Facebook is a site where anyone in the world can "link up" and find personal information about the particular person. Sharing interests, hobbies, work, etc. are all positive things two people may share but the privacy issue arises. Sexual harassment and pictures you dont want to be seen are passed around and it causes a rift in work relationships as seen here (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/681635). Hopefully in the future, people will learn to know when to separate professional and personal lives on the internet. It is a gateway to many intrusions and situations that a person would not want to be in.




http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_socialnetworking.htm