Andy Lin 3810 New Media

File sharing is the act of transferring files from one computer to another through a local network or the internet. P2P or peer to peer file sharing is when you use software to download files on the internet where it connects you to other users using P2P software and downloads the files from the combination of other users essentially creating a small network between other users to upload/download a file/s. Some common examples of P2P software are downloading movies or shows on Piratebay/1337x using software like Utorrent/Bittorrent. Source https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05piracy.html

I have been researching more to add to the gaming category of the class wiki as I see that there is a lot of good content and passionate videogamers who have also taken this new media class. I plan to add a section about Rainbow Six Siege under the Ubisoft section which contains games created by Ubisoft and I plan to add information about the core gameplay, why it is different from other types of first person shooters and some information about the various operators that are in the game. I also will add a subsection about tips for people who might possibly want to try the game, but don't know where to start or what to learn as it is a fairly complex game.

If I were to be hired by Baruch to improve the college through new media one suggestion I would have would be to consolidate the many Facebook groups that represent students at Baruch. Each new year of students at Baruch create a new page on Facebook to have a group where they can ask other students who are on a similar timeline in college about classes to take, advice for major tracks, best food spots, reselling textbooks and anything else, but this also means that all the information on these pages are limited to Facebook users who specifically know about these Baruch groups. I would recommend Baruch to create a modern forum where all these groups for each year of students, clubs, majors and any other categories can exist and all Baruch students can simply log in with their CUNY accounts. This would result in far more students participating in forums and learning valuable information or just building more of a community experience. It would also serve as an interesting archive of how...

In the age of new media people have started to realize how false their sense of privacy online is. Browsers, websites, search engines, and internet service providers all record a person's activity online especially if their logged into accounts and are not taking any preventative measures to protect their own privacy. More and more people learning about massive data breaches like the multiple Facebook breaches have started to learn what they can do to protect their privacy on new media platforms because the government has done little to stop companies from compiling data on individuals on a massive scale. Virtual private networks (VPN) have become popular to hide information from internet service providers, websites, and applications that try to get information from user activity based on their IP address. Browsers like Firefox, Brave and Tor have increased in use because Google Chrome gives Google access to all your web activities and uses that information to cater to each user an...