Wiki So Far

I've been editing our class wikis couple times throughout this semester. Because I'm not good at fixing syntax error or grammar, so that I decided to upload more photos to reference the text. The first edit I've made is in "New Media in Music". In this page, there are a lot of descriptions of musical instrument, however, without the pictures, it's hard to realize what instrumentals are they talking about, so that I uploaded 3 pictures referencing to the instruments which I founded in Google.

Recently, I add some contents in the "Food, Beverage & Hospitality Industry" page. Based on my knowledge, I knew one more Online Food Ordering Service called "FlushingFood.com", so I did little research and add this content under "Online Service". After adding the text, I felt like I should upload FlushingFood's Logo on the top left corner of  my edit. Finally, I put the reference by copying the coding from other students and replace it with my link.

The second edit I've made is in the "Love" page, under "How to express your love and affection in many different languages". I found this interesting because I'm a non-native speaker of English, so that I want to do research and found out how to write in those languages in saying "I love you". After all, I found that it's more suitable to add 'write' in "How to express your love and affection in many different languages" title, so that the final title would be "How to express and write your love and affection in many different languages"

P2P

A file sharing is a computer to another computer transmission of digital files over the network or internet by definition. On the other hand, P2P File sharing is so-called "Peer-to-Peer" file sharing, and this is the process of sharing and distributing digital media using P2P networking technology. Users are able to access media files such as music, movies, books, and games by using a P2P software program or online platform. According to Softonic.com, the top 10 free P2P file sharing software downloaded are - just name a few: "SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor" (this application can monitor for all components), "DameWare Remote Support" (Accelerate your IT support with easy-to-use DameWare Remote Support software for remote desktop access & troubleshooting), "Vuze" (users can download high definition movies to their PC), and so on.

Acoording to the Article "Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other", Google is teaming up with the nation's largest P2P lender-- Lending Club, and they invested $125 million which gets borrowers and lenders together outside the conventional banking system. Google's investment shows the growing market and interest in P2P lending industry. (Kaufman,2013). Because of the P2P lending system is so efficient and user-friendly, David Schehr said "Their total volume of lending might be what a small two- or three-branch community bank does in a year." (Kaufman,2013)

 Reference:

http://en.softonic.com/s/top-10-free-p2p-file-sharing-programs/downloads
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Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other May 10, 2013 http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/05/10/182651552/peers-find-less-pressure-borrowing-from-each-other

Privacy

The notions of privacy and confidentiality are highly tied with the new media because the information flows so fast and freely. Anyone might get the chance to view your personal information or intimate thoughts. Google, Facebook, Twitter and some other networking cites collect our information about us everyday, which they deploy them to the advertiser to gain profits. For example, a family photo that captured by a smart phone and uploaded to the social networks, the persons in this family photo' privacy is at risk. The family photo supposed to be inaccessible to anyone, but now anyone on the internet can see this photo and someone might just predict my hair loss referencing my family photo (Reed, 2011). Another example will be the big data brokers, like Acxiom, they have developed sophisticated tools that allow them to know everything about you and sell these data to all kinds of companies that want to know our habits, sexual orientation or our finances (Nocera, 2014). To live in this digital age, none of our secret will be a secret is we like to share. We should watch out everything we do online to avoid trap that might benefit others in inappropriate way. Sometimes you think it's very safe to post anything on your social networking cites because you think you only share them with your trust-able friends, however, hackers might access to your personal photo easily and everything you posted will be a weapon to turn against you. Ownership, privacy, reputation and decision makings are so intertwined that we might not have the control of everything happened online.





Work Cited:
Reed, Daniel. "Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations" May 11, 2011. <http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/108232-information-privacy-changing-norms-and-expectations/fulltext>

Nocera, Joe. "The Wild West of Privacy" Feb 24 , 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/opinion/nocera-the-wild-west-of-privacy.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=

Advice to Baruch College

If I'm hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the college, the first suggestion I'll make is to improve our enrollment process. As we all have known, Baruch College has way more students than expected. Every time when the enrollment period starts,it's always painful for students to compete with each other for selecting classes. Therefore, I hope we can have an app for CunyFirst to send daily update to us for the waiting list status, how much tuition we owned and what are the new classes opened and how many classes on your shopping chart started waiting list. As for next semester, a class that I must take in order to graduate is all closed. I have to check the cunyfirst everyday to ensure I have a class to take. However, it is very inconvenience for us to use the Cunyfirst on our mobile devices. When we're not using the desktop/laptop, we have to open our browser in our phone, type in cunyfirst.com, and then login. I hope the new app will make college students' enrollment process much more easier and save their time.