New Media by Ayesha Azam

I haven't added content to the wiki page but as I have continued to look through the page, I have decided to make some contributions on healthcare and how the importance of it has been uprising in recent times and what it can possibly mean for the future, whether its economically or ethically. With all the recent buzz over healthcare on the news I believe its an important topic to discuss and look further into.

File Sharing is the transporting of files from one designated computer, to another one with the use of internet. It gives us the ability to download documents and share it amongst whom ever. P2P is basically the same thing as file sharing but for digital content such as movies, videos, etc. An example of P2P would be the illegal downloading of movies. This can lead to massive losses in the movie industry due to the pirating issues. For example, in the article "Digital Pirates Winning Battle with Studios", it discusses how the Warner brothers tried their best to maintain a system where they monitored each copy they had sold but failed due to the increase in piracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05piracy.html

In order to improve Baruch with New media, I would suggest having an online chat on the Baruch website where students can reach out to staff and ask questions about registrations, billing, SACC workshops, FAFSA, and etc. This can eliminate the dragging phone calls where it takes about 20-30 minutes to get someone on the line to answer a question that only took 1 minute to answer. This can save much time for both parties (student and staff) and it can also help reach more students at a faster pace. Being someone who experienced this and know many others as well who had the same bad experience, I believe this would be an efficient way to use new media.

As years go by, the use of social media has been increasing, and along side so has technological advancements. These advancements have been used to help aid in our privacy online, but thanks to these advancements the level of risk our privacy faces is also escalating. In the article "The Wild West of Privacy", the author mentions how data is collected by these online companies, and then sold to external companies who use this data to figure out what our interests are, (personal to non-personal)which can put a person in danger. Hackers can access this information and steal credit card info, identity theft, and so on. Although some social media accounts do offer the choice of making your account private or public, nothing is every really private therefore, confidentiality is never guaranteed. For the years to come, the use of new media will only rise from here so in order to keep people information safe, companies should initiate/create ways to help protect users from the dange