Wiki So Far

I edited the gaming page of the wiki. I included the expansions section in the World of Warcraft game because I have played the game since 2008 and I knew the history and how the game evolved over the past decade or so. I created a section for each expansion using my experiences with the game and some research on the internet. Then provided brief descriptions of each of the five games and the new features and updates that each expansion brought to the game. I also created a Dating media page that I have not edited yet. It is still blank, but I will use the research from my term paper to fill in the page with information that I have.

P2P

File sharing is when someone sends data or information of a file to each other. An email of my homework to a professor would be considered sharing my file. I think the reason its called sharing is because its an electronic asset/data can be duplicated so its never completely transferred to another person hence the "sharing" aspect. P2P stands for peer-to-peer and P2P file sharing is something thats been around for a while. For instance people are pooling resources of data to one person and it becomes a big web of file data transferring between people with the same file. This makes the process of downloading something like a file a lot faster because the file data is coming from multiple sources(Peers). Bit torrent for example allows data to be transferred over the internet and is a tool for finding people with those files to download it from. For example if you wanted to download music(illegally). Bit torrent helps you find peers who are hosting the music on their computers for other peers to find and allows you guys to share that music. With bit torrent, the more the merrier. Why? When there are multiple peers with the music file there will be more data funneled to you and making your download faster. Eventually when you receive the complete music file, you become a host(seed) and start sending out the completed music file that you downloaded to help others who are seeking the same file to download it off you. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html

Privacy

Privacy is a big issue in today's world and new media can be one of the reasons why. As technology continues to grow and companies continue to profit from gather information about people the privacy issue will always be an issue. Organizations want to understand people and their habits in order to market or sell things to them. Everyone on the internet are now trying to cash in on this because the internet is so large and there will always be data to be collected. The internet population isn't the problem, the new media is. I think that in today's new media, almost every organization or website will ask for credentials before you can access any of their content and we're basically giving our information to them every time we surf the web. The more we fill out these forms or acceptance of terms on the internet the more vulnerable and public our lives will be to the internet. An article about the University of Maryland spoke about the University being hacked and information of over 300,000 people's information being stolen. The information dates back to 1998. I understand that the University might have reasons to keep this information., but because they kept this information stored somewhere, bad people were able to access it. We live in a world where the more information that is collected the stronger organizations become. But in this case I can think of more reasons to maybe erase past data/information than to keep it. I think new media has changed people and organizations and slowly changed our society in to a bunch of information hoarders. Its become more of a obsession and using the information for whatever business plans they have in store is just an excuse.

Advice

New media can be used to improve the college. The purpose of new media is to inform people of things, so I suggest that they have a school-wide social network. Registering with your Baruch email only to keep miscellaneous people out and make it a Baruch students and faculty only network. Kind of like a linkedin,, but Baruch only. This way we can have students communicating with each other and maybe interested parties can get together. Networking with alumnis to help students kick start their careers. Also I think that Baruch's twitter would be worth following if it tried to connect to its students more instead of advertising its accomplishments. I feel like kids at this school come here because its a respected school and already know that, people want to see that an institution actually interacts with its students and not trying to sound like theyre getting you to acknowledge how good it is. Yes it may help with bringing in new students, but I think there are better places to do that than twitter.