Blog: Next New

As a CIS major having coding skills, in the near future I want to build an app which will allow doctors, patients and pharmacy's to communicate with each other directly and instantly rather than waiting to visit them or calling them. For example, the app would allow a doctor to send prescriptions of patients directly through the app and that way the patient will also be sent notifications notifying them of their medicine being sent to the pharmacy and when it is ready for pick-up. The app will also allow doctors from all over the world to answer questions of patients regarding any health issues. So a doctor from India could be answering the question of someone from Canada maybe about a heart condition. This app will be able to not only connect patients with doctors, but also doctors themselves can also communicate about certain things and learn from each other and exchange information. Also one more important thing is this app will allow all your doctors to be able to communicate with each other like your cardiologist, gynecologist, endocrinologist and etc can all talk with each other about some issue that relates to a patient and it's important that all your specialists doctors are also notified of any changes in medications you take so they know what to prescribe you without hurting you.

Blog: Wiki So Far

So far to contribute to the WIKI I have been doing research on the topics and sections I am planning to add more information to. As of now I have been researching more on how social media had negatively impacted the personal and professional lives of people. I am also researching on the marketing aspect of social media and how it has helped the economy positively and also talk more about how it has concerned privacy. I will also be adding about how different social media sites are different and unique in their own way and have different purposes for example Snapchat is for sharing pictures in the moment whereas Facebook is used as an online journal. Soon after I am done with more of my research I will be adding my information to the WIKI hopefully.

Blog: P2P

File sharing is something we all do especially as students. File sharing is basically where people send files including information and data which can be accessed by hundreds of people at the same time online. It is where people have the ability to share information on a mass scale through public platforms such as the internet. People can exchange audios, ebooks, videos, movies, images and much more through files on the internet. P2P file sharing is the exchange of these types of files from one individual to another one for example if I send an ebook to my classmate that would be considered P2P file sharing, it is basically an interaction done between two people through the P2P network. An example of P2P file sharing website is "The Pirate Bey, with its millions of unique daily users, was the initial point of explosion of interest in Steal This Film"(NMA Staff). Through this they were able to get many people to download more movies and the numbers increased by a lot. This P2P file sharing allowed the documentary to be shared to many people.

Citations:

1.) Content Producers Should Take Advantage of P2P, Not Fear It, by: NMA Staff

Blog: Privacy

The more we use new media the more we jeopardize our privacy without even realizing it. Today many new media such as Facebook, Snapchat and even Instagram are able to access your personal information without you even noticing. For example these apps ask for your location and can track wherever you go and where you are. This is scary and it does violate a person's privacy. Another thing which we all have been a prey of is the marketing industry which has jeopardized privacy on a whole new level and it is still debated whether they are ethical and moral or not. Companies use cookies to track exactly what you click on, what websites you visit and how often you visit them and much more information so that they could so call "better" advertise to consumers, but this in my opinion is not ethical as it is a violation of my privacy. So you have to be careful when using new media because the more we use it the more information we feed to these companies about ourselves which can be a problem and it has became a major issue. The more technologically advanced we will get the more vulnerable we will be to privacy attacks so as a user it is very important for us to be careful and limit the apps we use to have access to certain information of yours.

Blog: Advice

I have been working at the school library computer lab on the 6th floor covering the front desk and many students come to us very often when they have issues with activating their id cards or other issues. Especially, in the beginning of the semester it can get really hectic and the lines get ridiculously long since their aren't that many people at the help desk. So in my opinion I think they should set up a system using new media such as Skype or some form of video calling where they can not only see each other, but also where the people at the help desk would be able to control your computer screen and guide you as well do things certain things which only they have access too and not us. This way i think they can run the whole process faster and be more efficient. We wouldn't have to have those long lines outside the help desk and also depending on when you are free you can video conference them and make an appointment so this way no one has to wait on line for too long. Plus through video conference it's faster and saves time since you don't have to be physically present at the office to get help for something as small as activating your id card which takes only 5-10 minutes, but people have to wait on line for more than half hour. So I think if i was hired by Baruch I would definitely thrive to put in a system where we can video conference students to help them and it should all be done by appointments this way its a very smooth process for the help desk workers and the students themselves.

Creativity and New Media

So for mine and my cousins birthday we had planned an event to have dinner with our mutual friends and instead of sending invitation cards and waiting for people to RSVP us through email we decided use Facebook for help. So we created a new private event for our birthday and invited our friends and it was so easy because they could simply inform us through the event page if they could make it to the event or not and this way it was fast and creative as well. We were able to use polls to ask people for good restaurants we could eat at and also got people's input on the theme of the dinner. So this is where creativity played a huge role for us.

HW Creativity

In todays world new media and the internet have definitely fostered creativity in many different forms. It fosters creativity because it has given a platform to people to connect with others by sharing their opinions, ideas and thoughts. They are able to give insight and some suggestions to companies and other through the new media platform. In the article Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers talks about how they would keep track of things people did commonly and frequently on Twitter and then make that into special features for more people to utilize. It also talked about how Lego allowed their customers to custom make their own products using the online software. This definitely shows us how new media has been able to connect not only people to people, but even companies to customers, where customers can give ideas and suggestions on how a company can improve their service or product. There are many companies nowadays that use new media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to connect with their customers for feedback and any improvements or ew things they would want to see which helps foster creativity because maybe someone might suggest a great idea which no one else at the company could have ever imagined.  Citation:  1.) Miller, Claire Cain. "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers." The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 Oct. 2009. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.