Our Class Wiki - So Far

First of all having wiki for new media class is a great idea. Everybody has done a significant job by putting different areas in new media together. It will provide a good resource for other students to look into and know more about new media and different aspects of it. I decided to add pictures for New media and Business page but I plan to add pictures overall and also organize different pages.

There were some pages which didn't look very organized so i tried to make them look coherent just like all other pages. I would like to keep working on it even after the semester is over but not sure if we would still be able to log in and use it.

Also I really liked how different people presented different ideas and websites which are contributing in new media. If time allowed, i may try to make a page that how new media is enhancing our everyday life through web.

The Next New Thing

The next new thing i thought couple of years ago and I wasn't aware that google is working on that that we should be able to google a image from image instead of text to image only. sometimes i felt that we should be able to scan and upload an image or just any image from online put in google to find similar images. Also Virtual smell would be great thing to work on as new media. It would be interesting if we were able to smell things over the internet as long the smell is good..lol

Or there should be button to turn the virtual smell off just like we can mute the volume.

Advice to Baruch College

I think Baruch college is doing pretty good using new media. we can register online. always updated with new events through email or college calnedar, keep track of courses through degree works and also blackboard. well, we all know how blackboard is so messed up, and slow lately. i think they should create a website where all prfessors post assignments, grades, updates and intract with students just like for our New Media class. They should also offer some courses online too because I wanted to take couple of courses online but they don't offer it at all for my major.

Old vs. New

Old media is TV, radio, newspapers, and paper mail advertisement. On the other hand, new media is internet, e-newspaper, YouTube, face book, blogs, wikis and cell phones.
There are several differences between old media and new media from different perspectives.

It’s said that old media was producer based media and new media is user based media. Users now have the control what, when and how they consume. When old media existed, there were only limited numbers of players in the market and it was hard and expensive to enter in the market. Now the number of players in market is unlimited. Anyone enter into the market whoever has unique and new ideas. It was hard, slow and also expensive to broadcast through radio and television but internets had fastened and make it cheaper to access the information globally. Cell phones and VOIP are the example to communicate with people anywhere around the world. If we look carefully, technology is the transition between old media and new media. New media isn’t something very new; it’s in fact the more developed, smaller and faster version of old media.

I found this link online which describes the different between old and new media in very interesting way with pictures.

http://chartreuse.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/the-big-difference-between-old- and-new/


I will write down here what they told in that link just in case some people may feel lazy to open it.
· Old media says……Pay attention
· New Media…………nothing is on except you.

· Old Media has to grab your attention
· New media is already there.

· You’ve to find old media.
· New Media finds you.

· Old media is begging for attention.
· New media is attention.

· Old media pushes.
· New media is pulled by you.