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File sharing is the process in which you send or allow individuals to share information, documents, and spreadsheets and is mainly used through applications like Google Drive, Dropbox, and other platforms. These kind of file sharing platforms are important for everyone of all ages – it helps individuals back up their information in a cloud based manner, makes it easier and inspires collaboration amongst students when working on projects or sharing notes for a class, and can be used in a business setting to drive business results. P2P, otherwise known as peer-to-peer distribution or file sharing, allows individuals to share documents, information, videos, and other forms of media and information through connecting to another computer and database that is connected to the network. An example of a P2P site is the Pirate Bay, a P2P portal with millions of unique daily users that illegally distributes movies and other forms of media. The NMA staff discusses in “Conten

Privacy in regards to new media is an area of concern for many and continues to be something that is difficult to control. Prior to new media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. it would be extremely difficult to find information out about your friends unless they explicitly shared it with you. Now, with an increase of connectivity amongst individuals we can see more information openly available to the public without any kind of permission or difficulty accessing. On things like our Facebook pages, we can see basic information about ourselves that if someone is looking to find more information about you, they can do that easily. Additionally, some social media platforms allow you to track your friends and have started making it easier to see what your friends are up to without them knowing that they’re being tracked. An example of this would be Snapchat with one of their new updates which essentially allows the app to use your location services to se

For this assignment I decided to make a Second Life Avatar and messing around in the website game. I thought it was a really cool and exciting experience and I plan on spending a little more time on it to see how else I would be able to change my avatar and activities within the game. I'm excited to use my creativity to play this game!

Creativity and new media go hand in hand - new media is fully geared towards individual's creative sides. New media allows people to express themselves in any which, way, or form and connects individuals who have same interests, hobbies, and favorite pass-times. New media allows individuals to create vlogs on youtube, blogs on numerous websites, and post pictures that express their personality. People can create pages, hold events, and schedule meet-ups all through the social media platform Facebook. Additionally, social media platform Instagram allows both individuals and companies to foster their creativity and create an engaging, well put together page that properly illustrates the public image the organization wants to hold. Social media platform Twitter fosters creativity from both it's employees and its users through the way the employees gather ideas from its followers. The New York Times article titled "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers" by Claire Ca

Virtual reality is a result of exponential technological advancements over the past decade. Our capabilities and interconnectedness with technology has created fads like virtual reality and augmented reality. Virtual reality allows an individual to experience and trick their minds to believing they're actually in the picture they're seeing. Virtual reality allows indivdiuals to be who they want, where they want, and the kind of "reality" they want to create for themselves. This is quite exciting for some people and very scary for others. For certain individuals with mental illness, like autism, virtual reality can provide an experience that one may not have been ever to experience themselves first hand.  Nicole Saidi discusses this in her article "'Naughty Aunties' battle autism with virtual interaction" and illustrates how virtual reality allowed children to create an avatar of themselves and participate in activities like real life interaction, co

I've been quite active on social media for the past few years of my life and I feel like each platform has a very different vibe to it. Facebook to me is more for sharing more life moments, picture albums, and putting things I would want all of my friends and family to see. I would never publish anything too personal or something that I might not want all my cousins in India seeing! Facebook I feel like has turned into more of a video sharing platform than anything, with my timeline being filled with mainly videos of really anything. Twitter for me is a little more difficult to get addicted to or to spend too much time on just because of the way the timeline shows up, as well as the thought (or also the lack of) that needs to go into tweeting things periodically. I find that it's difficult to actually go through a lot of tweets and know who said what when. Instagram is one of my favorite social media platforms which I truly think will be used significantly more in the future