SOMEONE ELSE'S TERM PROJECT

Title: Identity Theft
Identity Theft will steal Social Security number from your mail and online databases. They can get money and it's easy to do it with low risk. Most victims are kids under 18 because they give out their personal information through Internet. There are different types of identity theft. The best way to prevent identity theft is updated virus protection software every month to prevent hacker access into your computers.

BARUCH NEW MEDIA - OUR CLASS WIKI - SO FAR

I have edited New Media and Music and I contribute one article there with a title "BRITNEY'S CONCERT." In addition, I attached a photo with this article. Also, I've post up another article on New Media in Entertainment, which was introduced two of the "Facebook Application." In the main page of our wiki, I put all a chart for people easy to link to the page they want to go straightly. Moreover, I have updated the last article that each section have so far.

MY TERM PROJECT PRESENTATION

My presentation is talking about the impact of Facebook on society. I will talk about both positive and negative impact of Facebook as nowadays. Also, I may show a 3-min. video during my presentation. In my conclusion, I will give some suggestion of how to use Facebook correctly to avoid those negative impact.

THE NEXT NEW THING

The size of i-travel is same as the iphone. This new media will help you to get a good trip. First, it contains all local transportation included car service. i-travel will tell you the location of the transportation and the exact time that the next arrive time. Also, it will notify you the weather before the day you go travel automatically as same as a alarm clock. During your trip, if there is some special accidents or events happen near or around your travel area, there is an alarm clock will notify you again and list out what happen simply. Moreover, there will be a function for you to record things. You only have to say the things that you want to record and it will record down as a written format. Then, you can post the detail of your trip on the blog later on.

ADVICE TO BARUCH COLLEGE

Using new media to improve the college can be more efficient and effective. First, students can submit their homework or do their quizzes through online network. Therefore, students can do it anytime they want and professors won't lose students' work since students submit from the Internet and/or e-mail. For paper or printed work, professors are difficult to keep and they are so messy, which is included students hand writing. Second, students can catch up from the Internet if they miss their lecture. Moreover, new technology can be a tool for putting the textbooks via Internet, so students can read them from the Internet instead of bring several thick textbooks to school or somewhere else to study.

BLOG POST: OLD VS. NEW

As we learned in the class, old media is defined as a old way to transfer information when there is a new way to transfer information. A new way of transfering information is new media. For exmaple, printed papers are old media whereas Internet Wikipedia, Newspapers, etc. are new media. Nowadays, most new media has an important connection with Internet such as online dictionary(merriam-webster) instead of paper dictionary. E-mail send message out instead of using envelop to mail out the letter. Online dictionary and e-mail alll have to do with Internet network.

MODELING REALITY WITH VIRTUAL WORLDS

Based on Ed Frauenheim's article, "IBM Learning Programs Get a ‘Second Life’" stated that the IBM company set up a new program for their employees to go in to the virtual world. In the virtual world, employees can test out their ideas. Employees will be free of thinking in the virtual world because it wouldn't cost anything if their ideas fail. Thus, employees can be creative since there is not much things to care of in the real world; for example, what is the effect would bring to the corporation if such ideas or plans fail. (Frauenheim, 12/17/2006.)
In the virtual world, people can create their favorite image to appear in there. According to the article that reported by CNN.com, it described that things people can't do in the real world, which can be happened in the virtual world. For instance, disabled people can be an athlete in the virtual world.(Saidi, 3/28/2008) The virtual world can help people to balance their way of thinking. Based on Saidi discussed on the article, virtual world seems like helping people to relieve stress or pressure from the real world.
I don't think that there is a "dark side" for using the virtual world. First, you don't have to tell all your truth in the virtual world, so your privacy or identity is safe enough. Second, if you don't like to communicate or socialize with such person, you can delete them from your "world" or just don't chat with them. The only bad thing that it may cause is that people may not be good in socialized with people face-to-face since they do all the typing to communicate with others on the virtual world.

Work Cited:
1. Frauenheim, ED. "IBM Learning Programs Get a 'Second Life' workforce.com." Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management. workforce.com. 17 Dec. 2006. 23 Mar. 2009 http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/24/61/08.html.
2. Saidi, Nicole. "IReport: 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. 28 Mar. 2008. 23 Mar. 2009 .