Naomi Rodriguez's Blog

With New Media there are so many new privacy issues. Hackers are a big concern with new medias such a social networking sites and email. Hackers can use coding to get on to your email or social networking sites. You should also be aware of data scrapping, that is when a company tracks a persons online activities and shares this information with other companies. With data scrapping research companies are able to take personal data and conversations from social networking sits and other online forums. This is all done without the written consent of the person this is happening to. this is a privacy concern for me. Cookies are a way for a company to keep advertising tailored to you,  cookies are not very harmful, but they do follow your browsing habits. taking the time to delete your cookies from your web browsers helps keep your computer safe.

My New Media will have to do with virtual reality. Since I am a huge fan of boxing and love going to the fights I would love to put a headset on and watch the fight ringside from the headset. This was from the comfort of my own home I am now ringside at a fight. There are many times where there are fights in Vegas or California and I can not make it there. And even when the fights are in New York a ringside ticket is super expensive. Instead of ordering it on PPV, you could pay a monthly fee and have access to all the fights happening. I think this will be cool because it is different then watching on TV. You have the full affect, the crowd screaming (which is insane and makes a fight so much better) and they should also have a lottery to win tickets to the actual fight!

File sharing is the ability to share computer data over the internet. File sharing allows many people to access the same file. P2P file sharing is peer-to-peer sharing that allows people to share a lot of data. The data shared over P2P file sharing is; books, music, movies, games, and others. In the reading "Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other" talks about the Lending Club a way to loan money for P2P sharing. There are loaners and bowers and the loaners are able to make some money off of this money and are able to make a decent profit. This is just another way for peer-to-peer sharing. Other then the Lending Club that takes P2P sharing for money, there are other examples of P2P sharing. BitTorrent shares everything from TV shows to songs, they share big files and are very popular. Another example of P2P file sharing is Lionshare that allows you to use P2P for educational purposes.