One of big issue in today’s society is privacy and confidentiality due to new media. Privacy deals with personal information and confidentiality deals with company’s information.
Nowadays people can steal information more easily because of Internet. Social networking sites become so popular in today’s society, they already adopted in many different fields. They improve people’s communication; make closer relationship between companies and customers; send out message easily and wisely. However, at the same time people need to face lost of privacy by using those social networking sites. It is easy for people to view what you post on your sites without your notice or permission. There are some employers looked at their employees social networking sites to see if they have proper behavior in their daily lives. And there are some cases that employees get fire or a person not get hire by the company because the photos that they upload or the word they post on those sites. Social networking sites also give opportunity for companies to collect people’s information without their permission. People can also steal other people’s information on social networking sites for illegal purpose.
We are living in a technology world which almost everybody is using computers. Many companies rely on the computer so heavy. They need to do the business or operation base on the computers. They will save all of information on their computers. These companies participate on social networking site to give out more information to the public and they also create company’s website online which customers can view company’s information online and make the purchase online. When you make the online purchase, you need to enter your personal information such as name, address, phone number and credit card number. The information that people enter will give hacker to steal these information. Also, because most companies will save all of information in computer, hacker can hack in the company’s computers and steal all of information. There are some people working as telecommuting which is people do their jobs at home through computer, it also give chance to hacker to hacker in the computer through Internet and steal your job information.
There are many new media are relying on the Internet, and it brings great amount of benefit to the society. However, there are also great amount of chance for people to loss privacy, for companies to loss confidentiality.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Advice to Baruch College
New media brings many benefits to the society. Many companies, schools, non-profit organizations and organization have adopted new media in their daily operation. I will suggest some social networking site, virtual world to Baruch College. From what I know, there are many clubs are using Facebook to connect and communicate with their members and update their daily activities. I think that is a very great tool to use because Facebook is easy to create and almost everybody has Facebook account. Many people might not check their e-mail every day, but they will check their Facebook every day. Also people can use book anytime and anywhere. Another great social networking site to be use in college life is Twitter. I think to use Twitter in the class can let people know their classmates quickly. It is good for brain storm. People can post whenever they want once idea come to their mine. And Twitter only allow people to post 140 characters each time which will make people to make long sentence short and catch the main point. Since Baruch College is a business college and business always has some risk. Virtual world can create different situation that might happen in the real world and teach them how to solve such problems if it really happens. It gives students different experiences in dealing different situations. So they will handle such problem more quickly and correctly.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Tweet Experience
Twitter, BB Discussion Board and in-class discussion all of them are present in different ways of communication. Twitter and BB Discussion are doing communication through online, and in-class discussion is doing communication face-to-face. I think in-class discussion provides most clear communication. We can ask or response directly and we also can add body language and face expression through our communication in order to make our sentences more clear. Twitter and BB Discussion are similar to each other. BB Discussion is more like blog, we can post our thought, feeling, questions and answers through BB Discussion. There is no limitation on how long we can write or how many characters we can post. Unlike BB Discussion, Twitter has limitation on the characters we can post which is 140 characters. It is more like conversation. I think twitter is freer than the BB Discussion Board and in-class discussion. What I feel is the things that we talk about in BB Discussion Board and in-class discussion are more close to the class work because the impression that both give to me is they are relative to school work. I will talk more formal in BB Discussion Board and in-class discussion, but not in Twitter. Twitter is kind of social communication which we can talk whatever we want. Our though, our feeling and even our complains. It is more about daily activities.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Virtual Worlds
Virtual world is a world that creates by its users online, such as Second Life. It is "a model that represents the reality." It allows users to create their own "avatars," design any kind of characters they want to be. Everything that appears on virtual world is "created, distributed, and consumed by the user themselves," such as building, object and fashion (Bakshy, Eytan, Karrer, Brian and Adamic Lada A. 2010). In Virtual world, users can assign different characters as they are in real lives. They can do anything they want that they might not or cannot do in the real world.
In virtual world, such as Second Life, people can create their own personality, who they want to be. They can design how they look like, what clothing to wear. They can buy lands, build houses and decorated them as they want, plant tree with different colors and own property. They can dance, jump, swim and even fly in the virtual world.
Virtual world can be used in many different fields. According to Linden Lab, there are "more than 1,400 organizations - including large companies, educational institutions, government agencies and even the U.S. military - use Second Life to hold meetings, conduct training and prototype new technologies more efficiently" (Tutton, Mark 2009).
For many companies, they use Second Life throughout their operation, such as IBM. According to IBM's chief technology officer - Rashik Parmar, IBM have used Second Life to meet up those leaders, gather information and ideas from the people around the world, instead of travel around. In this way, it will save a lot of time. IBM also created Sametime 3D which gives businesses opportunities to "share ideas and collaboration in a 3 D world" (Tutton, Mark 2009). In the field of education, there are some instructors set up their meeting in virtual worlds instead of classroom. It will provide more learning experience for students. They can distribute group work, share ideas, discuss topic and do the projects together. It is a good platform for people to meet up and gather things together. Second Life also provides job training for people. It gives out different situations that could happen in the company which give out experiences to employees dealing on those problems. So, it will help employees more quickly solve problems if they really come in reality since they already experienced them in virtual world. For disable people, there are limited of things they can do in real world, and might not accomplish their dreams as they wish because their disability. Second Life is a place where they can design a totally different life for themselves. They can create themselves as a healthy person, do the thing they like to do and achieve their dreams in virtual world. For instance, in the real world some disable who have difficulty to travel around, but they can walk, run, fly in virtual world. They can experiences the things that they can't experience in real lives.
However, virtual world is not all positive, it still bring some negative effects to the society. There are all of the sex, porn, drug and suicide that can occur in virtual world, because for the things that people cannot really do in the real world, they might want to get satisfy in virtual world. As the doctor explains that "if teenagers participate in an activity online, they are more likely to want to do it in real life" (Stern Allen 2008). Teenagers might also spend too much time on it, stay in their virtual world and isolate themselves to real world. Like man other online service, there are cyber crimes can occur in virtual world because you would not know the people you deal with online what their real personality are. It gives chance for those people to committee crimes.
I think virtual worlds is not popular as social networking now, but it will become more popular in the future, since there are more and more people participated it. In future, schools might provide virtual world course and let students participate in virtual world, take the virtual world as sample of real world and demostrate the different issues that occur in the reality in order to teach them lessons. It will also produces more activities and functions to the users, such as allows the users to write blogs and post them in their virtual world. Of course, there is need for regulation and rules to protect the users and give them a safety place to participated because some people are always tried to find some weakness part and take the advantage from it.
Citation:
Eytan Bakshy, Brian Karrer, and Lada A. Adamic. (July 6, 2010) Social Influence and the Diffusion of User - Created Content by Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Stanford CA.
Tutton, Mark (Nov 9, 2009). Going to the Virtual Office in Second Life, CNN.com
Stern, Allen (Aug 26, 2008), NBC News: " The Dark Side of the Web is Second Life". Center Networks
In virtual world, such as Second Life, people can create their own personality, who they want to be. They can design how they look like, what clothing to wear. They can buy lands, build houses and decorated them as they want, plant tree with different colors and own property. They can dance, jump, swim and even fly in the virtual world.
Virtual world can be used in many different fields. According to Linden Lab, there are "more than 1,400 organizations - including large companies, educational institutions, government agencies and even the U.S. military - use Second Life to hold meetings, conduct training and prototype new technologies more efficiently" (Tutton, Mark 2009).
For many companies, they use Second Life throughout their operation, such as IBM. According to IBM's chief technology officer - Rashik Parmar, IBM have used Second Life to meet up those leaders, gather information and ideas from the people around the world, instead of travel around. In this way, it will save a lot of time. IBM also created Sametime 3D which gives businesses opportunities to "share ideas and collaboration in a 3 D world" (Tutton, Mark 2009). In the field of education, there are some instructors set up their meeting in virtual worlds instead of classroom. It will provide more learning experience for students. They can distribute group work, share ideas, discuss topic and do the projects together. It is a good platform for people to meet up and gather things together. Second Life also provides job training for people. It gives out different situations that could happen in the company which give out experiences to employees dealing on those problems. So, it will help employees more quickly solve problems if they really come in reality since they already experienced them in virtual world. For disable people, there are limited of things they can do in real world, and might not accomplish their dreams as they wish because their disability. Second Life is a place where they can design a totally different life for themselves. They can create themselves as a healthy person, do the thing they like to do and achieve their dreams in virtual world. For instance, in the real world some disable who have difficulty to travel around, but they can walk, run, fly in virtual world. They can experiences the things that they can't experience in real lives.
However, virtual world is not all positive, it still bring some negative effects to the society. There are all of the sex, porn, drug and suicide that can occur in virtual world, because for the things that people cannot really do in the real world, they might want to get satisfy in virtual world. As the doctor explains that "if teenagers participate in an activity online, they are more likely to want to do it in real life" (Stern Allen 2008). Teenagers might also spend too much time on it, stay in their virtual world and isolate themselves to real world. Like man other online service, there are cyber crimes can occur in virtual world because you would not know the people you deal with online what their real personality are. It gives chance for those people to committee crimes.
I think virtual worlds is not popular as social networking now, but it will become more popular in the future, since there are more and more people participated it. In future, schools might provide virtual world course and let students participate in virtual world, take the virtual world as sample of real world and demostrate the different issues that occur in the reality in order to teach them lessons. It will also produces more activities and functions to the users, such as allows the users to write blogs and post them in their virtual world. Of course, there is need for regulation and rules to protect the users and give them a safety place to participated because some people are always tried to find some weakness part and take the advantage from it.
Citation:
Eytan Bakshy, Brian Karrer, and Lada A. Adamic. (July 6, 2010) Social Influence and the Diffusion of User - Created Content by Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Stanford CA.
Tutton, Mark (Nov 9, 2009). Going to the Virtual Office in Second Life, CNN.com
Stern, Allen (Aug 26, 2008), NBC News: " The Dark Side of the Web is Second Life". Center Networks
Monday, October 11, 2010
Social Networking
Social networking plays an important role in today’s society. Many individuals participate on those social networking sites, same as clubs, business, non-profit organizations, civic groups and political organizations as well. It not just improves our communication from each other also economic.
It is easy to create a social networking account such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter online. You can post your information, photos, and videos on your account and share with their friends. You also can view other people’s profiles and leave comments. It is very convenience for you to access the account at anytime and anywhere with digital device and internet. Even your friends or family members live far away from you, you can still have close communication with them through these social networking sites. According to the interview make by Stephen J. Dubner, the result shows with the people participate on Facebook, it helped them “maintain or strengthen relationships: they used the site to look up old high school acquaintances, to find out information about people in their classes or dorms that might be used to strike up a conversation, to get contact information for friends, and many other activities.”
Social networking also brings benefit to companies. Many companies are “using the service to keep their customers and anyone interested in the company, informed in real time about a crisis” (Reardon Marguerite 2009). AT&T is one of company using Twitter to communicate with its customers and update information about the company, such as in the case that happened at Silicon Valley and the San Francisco, AT&T had updated the information through Twitter to its customers about the outage. These online resources provide companies the ability to interact with customers and build up relationship with them. Another example from IBM, it has created “Beehive” (Dubner, Stephen J. 2008) – an internal social network site which to improve workers’ communication and build up the relationship between teams. Social networking sites also are good platforms for business to gather information from people and do the advertising for their business.
However, there is also some “dark side” of these social networking sites. There is risk for people to loss their privacy from those sites. People have to be very careful when they post their information or photos because there are some people trying to take the advantage of those sites to use for wrong or illegal purpose. It is easy for them to create a fake account and pretend someone else. Also many Employers view their employees’ information on social networking sites. There are some cases people not get hire or get fire because the information or photos that they post on those sites. Companies are also collect customers’ information by visit people’s site without their permission. Social networking has improved communication online, but also makes people feels less interested in face-to-face communication. There is high percentage of teens communicated through electronic medium and they feel they can talk more freely online.
In the future, I believe those social networking sites will become even popular because those sites really bring much convenience to people’s life and they have already spread in many areas. I believe they will become one of major tool in education and business. Even there are some risks and disadvantages people wouldn’t stop using them because they still believe “the benefits we receive as a society provided by these tools far outweigh the risks” (Dubner, Stephen J. 2008) which I agree too. On other hand we can take some control, such as think before when we try to post information or photos, is it fine for everybody to see it. There are also some organizations and sites have put some effort to provide more safety place to user, such as Myspace joints Attomeys General together to make agreement on social networking to better protect children online. It is a good staring, and I believe there would be more rules coming out to better regulate the sites.
Citation:
Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum by Stephen J. Dubner. NYT Feb 15, 2008
"AT&T uses Twitter during service outage" by Marguerite Reardon, cnet News, April 9, 2009.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Social Networking Sites
Social networking is people communicate each other through online websites, such as Facebook, Myspace, Friendster and Twitter. Users can upload their photos, videos and information on those website and share with their friends or families.
Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites which I like the most. I remembered when I was freshman, many of my friends asked me do I have Facebook, so they can add me as friend. Later I found out almost everybody has a Facebook account. Users can communicate with other people and they also can joint networks that create by organizations or clubs. Even in our college, many clubs create a Facebook account which can post all the information and activities on the account in order to communicate with their clubs members.
I know Myspace before I know Facebook. Back in that time, I heard people said that Myspace is for high school students and Facebook is for college students, because there are more high school students use Myspace and more college students use Facebook. I just created a Myspace account before I did this assignment. I think Myspace and Fackbook are very similar.
I never hear Friendster before, this is first time I hear it, and I also create a Friendster account before I did this assignment. Its background color is green which is attractive. On its home page, I feel a little empty, not as much as Facebook or Myspace. The first two thing come to my eyes are the Shoutout where you post your own word and ten different email addresses list where you can find friends.
I have a Twitter account too. I created it last semester because my English professor requests us to have a Twitter account. We post any things that we want to talk about, and leave comment for people or received comment from other people. It is kind of website more focus on express people’s feeling and thought. I like its design with a bird right next to word Twitter, it is so cute and different from others.
Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites which I like the most. I remembered when I was freshman, many of my friends asked me do I have Facebook, so they can add me as friend. Later I found out almost everybody has a Facebook account. Users can communicate with other people and they also can joint networks that create by organizations or clubs. Even in our college, many clubs create a Facebook account which can post all the information and activities on the account in order to communicate with their clubs members.
I know Myspace before I know Facebook. Back in that time, I heard people said that Myspace is for high school students and Facebook is for college students, because there are more high school students use Myspace and more college students use Facebook. I just created a Myspace account before I did this assignment. I think Myspace and Fackbook are very similar.
I never hear Friendster before, this is first time I hear it, and I also create a Friendster account before I did this assignment. Its background color is green which is attractive. On its home page, I feel a little empty, not as much as Facebook or Myspace. The first two thing come to my eyes are the Shoutout where you post your own word and ten different email addresses list where you can find friends.
I have a Twitter account too. I created it last semester because my English professor requests us to have a Twitter account. We post any things that we want to talk about, and leave comment for people or received comment from other people. It is kind of website more focus on express people’s feeling and thought. I like its design with a bird right next to word Twitter, it is so cute and different from others.
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