Classmate's research presentation

One of the most interested presentation to me is “The Effect of New Media on Young Children” presented by Amy. She talked about the impact of new media on young children. Many people might not realize that the “new media” are really playing a big impact on kids. As Amy said, there are many TV programs or show for the kids such as: Disney channel, discovery channel and national geographic, kid nation (Survivor version for kids), and many more. These created the diversity, entertaining and also educational at the same time. Now, there are many electronic toys or online activities for kids which they can collaborate and improve their skills (reading, writing, spelling, and math). Amy also talked about the laws that protect the kids under age of 13 (CPAT).

Amy did a really good job on her presentation. It has a lot of information. The presentation really makes me think that I am overlooking the new media. I personally think that new media has more negative than the positive effects on kids. However, after Amy’s presentation, I learned that kids can learn a lot from new media. Games are not only waste the time but also can improve the skills (if they are playing the right one). For me, her presentation went very fast because I enjoyed from what I learned.

New media can give both positive and negative effects of young children that we might not realize it.

My Term Research Project

Geraldine and I did the presentation together about “The Impact of New Media in Thailand and Philippines” both positive and negative ways. I started to talk about the impact in Thailand first by telling the statistics of the Internet users and their activities. Then, I talked about the positive impact on new media in “Communication” about email, cell phone, blog, and online diary and how these things affect Thai people and how it’s socializing. Then continued to education aspect and followed by business and entertainment. After I talked about the positive effects then I talked about the negative effects. In communication aspect, a lot of people got hacked by email hackers. In business, many people selling illegal things online. Followed by the entertainment aspect and how kids are addicting to the video games and follow the scene in the game. At the end, I mentioned about the solution of the negative effects. Then the presentation moved on to the impact of new media in Philippines introduced by Geraldine.

For what I think, the impacts of the new media in other countries are very similar to the impact in Thailand and Philippines. What about the impact of the new media of your country? Is the impacts are very similar or different?

The Next New Thing

Now a day, there are many people using the computer. And of course, there are a lot of hackers. As in the presentation that Geraldine and I presented, a hacker hacked one of the Thai guy’s Hotmail account. It took so long and complicated to get his account back because Hotmail is not in Thailand, the police couldn’t do anything.

Another person that I know lost almost $10,000. A hacker hacked his bank account from his computer. His money transferred to a guy in GA. He called the bank, they said that it’s have been approved by him already. The bank said they already call the owner of the account to get approve. However, he is the owner of the account and he never gets that call.

There are many more problems that the hackers do. This is why I hope in the future we’ll have a computer that allows you to know if your computer is being hacked and by who and it will automatically block the hacker and report the police.

Let say that if someone’s hacking a computer, it will report wirelessly and automatically to the owner of the computer (by text message) and to the police to let you know that you're being hacked. The owner and the police have the access to hacker’s information to find out what IP address it is and who owns or who uses it.

Advice to Baruch College

If I was hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the College, I would suggest to have a small chatroom for each department or section thorugh the cuny site. I suggest this because it is hard to communicate with the classmates while we are outside of college. Yet, we could communicate with others by e-mail but sometimes we don't really check our school's email often. We can also communicate through MSN or yahoo chat but not every people use it. This is why I suggest this.

On these passed week, I went to one of my CIS class (not this one) and the class was cancelled. I did e-mail one of my classmate, he never reply. I tried to talk through MSN messenger, he never go online. I look on Blackboard, there is no announcement. Today, this happen to me again!!! Especially, I just went to school for this one class.

Old v. New

Old media are traditional means of communication and expression that have existed since before the advent of the new medium of the Internet.
Examples of old media: cable television, movie and music studios, newspapers, books, magazines, radio, etc.

New media is a web-related or all forms of electronic communication and collaboration.
Eaxmples of new media: CD-Rom, websites, broadcast e-mail, web casting, blogs, e-books, video games. etc.

What have been some of the effects of the new media on society?

New media affected many things in our society in many different ways. We changed from writing a letter to e-mail or talk on the phone; search something from book to online search engine.
One of the big impacts that affected our society is the communication in the social networking sties. I think everyone has at least one account from those sites. Social networking sites connected people everywhere around the world. We can express our thought in there.
New media also affected business society. People check through social networking site after they read the resume. According to the article “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting”, Crawford-Hentz search through those sites to hire employee.
New media has negative effects on our society too. People download illegal files online. Some sites are not safe for teenagers to go in.
However, new media make our life go smoother and easier. It keep us connect to others who live far away. We can meet new people and stay anonymity.

Outline of our presentation

Geraldine and I are going to make a presentation about the Impact of the New Media in the Philippines and Thailand by using a PowerPoint presentation. First, we are going to explain the meaning of “New Media” and what are considering as a new media. Then, Geraldine is going to talk about the positive and negative effect of the new media in the Philippines. After that I will follow by the positive and negative effects in Thailand. How people take advantages of new media and how new media take advantages from us. Then, we are going to talk about how the government deals with those problems. Follow by the conclusion of the presentation.

Checking Out Some Social Networking Sites

Social network tied people up through their interested, ideas, friendship, etc. For me, I don’t really use those social networking sites that much because there is always a new social networking site comes out from the time.

I remember in 2003, my first social networking site is Xanga. That time, not a lot of people use social networking site. Now, there are 6,000,000 registered as a Xanga user. Then I started to use Friendster. Friendster is very easy to start to use social networking site. On Friendster’s homepage, there is look very clear and easy to use. It’s show the Popular Members and New Members. After Friendster, I used Hi5. I played Hi5 because most of my friends in Thailand are there. Before, Hi5 dosen’t has Thai language but now it does. It is also pretty to use and posts everything up to your webpage. Then it’s time for MySpace. At this point, I don’t want to have another account anymore. However, I registered it but never use them because my friends moved from Hi5 to MySpace. Somehow, I think that myspace is involve more with the advertising too much. MySpace is “a place for friends.” However, on its homepage, I only see advertisements. Then later, facebook became popular. Of course, I stop to register for an account in there (still stick to Hi5). For me, when I get to facebook.com, I don’t really like it. I didn’t see anything unless I sign in to the account. They should put new members or the latest update or something like that to make me click on those and look at other people’s page. That’s made me close the site (this might just happen to only me that tired to make a new webpage).

Most of the social networking sites that I mentioned are mostly that same. The only slightly different is their features and what kinds of group of people are in there. For example, Thai people are using Friendster and Hi5. MySpace is popular in the United States, Canada and Europe. The main purpose of these sites is to connect people together as the concept of six degree of separation.

Here is a video from youtube that explain better about the

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Book Review Outline

Rule the Web by Mark Frauenfelder

Introduction:
Explain briefly what is this book is about. It’s guide the reader to getting stuff done online and offline by using the internet resources.

Body: Review of the Main points
I. Blogs: what is it? Tips for running a popular blogs.
II. Wikis: What is it and what can I use if for?
III. Searching: Google. How to get a good result?
IV. Email: How to use email and tips

Conclusion
I. Book’s audience. How is it reliable?
II. Contribution of this book to the new media and relate them to what I learn in class
III. Relevance of the book

Social Networking and Virtual Worlds

What are some ways (corporate and otherwise) that these technologies can be used?
Now a day, social networking and virtual worlds is very useful in our daily life. It is the best way to keep in touch with each other around the world by using internet through the Web 2.0. It is fast and easy for everybody. We can keep our identity private by stay anonymous. We also can make up of a new identity by not telling other our identity at all. We can use this technology to explore through online website such as: wikis, myspace, facebook, and etc. For the corporate level, they also use the internet to find the person that fit in the position that they are looking for. According to the article “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting”, the Crawford-Hentz says, “And I hit upon his profile, and I sent him this e-mail saying: 'Hi, Alfred, I found your profile on line. And we have a position that I think may be of interest to you.’”

What are the benefits of these technologies to society? Be specific
This social networking brings and connects people together around the world. As in the article “iReport: 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction” it says, “So you're not going out into the real world meeting people, you're going meeting people online and in your own home, so you're perfectly relaxed. It's just a fantastic tool to use to bring people together.”

Is there a "dark side"?
Of course there is a dark side of social networking. Sometimes, I even go to the chat room and fake my identity. We don’t know if the people that we talk to also hide their identity too or not. If me met the wrong person over the social networking website that might make people go through the wrong way such as drug, porn and other bad situation.

Make sure to include your opinion of the way these technologies might evolve in the future.
Well, I believe that in the future social networking and virtual worlds will evolve more in our life. Everybody will sit in front of their own computer at home to work instead of working in their office. Like our class, we are staying at home and do homework or what we have to do then summit them online. However, I hope there will be less of the dark side of the social networking and virtual worlds.

Baruch New Media - Our Class Wiki - So Far

I’m the contributor of Marketing and Advertising using New Media. I added information about Carl Ocab in Advertising on Blogs. He is making money online by advertising. He started it when he was 13 year old. You can check his website at http://www.carlocab.com/

List of sources

Below are the sources about Thailand
These websites are about why Thailand has to pull GTA out from the shop.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/category/topics/thailand
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26525272
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24127308-5014117,00.html
http://www.matichon.co.th/news_detail.php?newsid=2659 (in news in Thai language)

The survey that teenager watch porn through the Internet
http://www.thailandlife.com/thaiyouth_81.htm
http://www.thailandlife.com/thaiyouth_76.html

Teenager spend more time with new media than with friends
http://www.thailandlife.com/thaiyouth_21.html

It is kind of hard to find it in English language. There is a lot more sources in Thai language.

Below are the sources about Philippines
Child pornography on Internet, VCDs, and DVDs in the Philippines
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=83675

Swindlers in Friendster Philippines
http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/swindlers-in-friendster-philippines

Cyber sex- violating Republic Act 9208(Philippines), or the Anti-trafficking in Persons Act
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080507-135044/Cops-raid-2-shops-allegedly-used-as-cybersex-dens-in-QC

How to fight cyber crimes!
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=77658

Filipinos quickly, increasingly embracing Internet
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080813-154418/Research-Filipinos-quickly-increasingly-embracing-Internet

Sordid reality of cybersex
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20080518-137276/Sordid-reality-of-cybersex

Computer crimes rising
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=120999

Blogs vs. Wikis

Both blogs and wikis are social networking. We share information through these websites. For wikis, we can change the information that we post on the website. I can change on what other says. Other people can change on what I say. Wikis is more about the fact than personal stuff. As in Wikipedia said, “Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.” For blogs, it’s more private. We can post whatever we want into our own blogs. Other people can only view and leave their comments in the blog. I can keep it even more private by lock my blog and only my friend can see it. Blogs connect each other through our interests. Then they can share what they know and exchange information.

In addition, you can watch the youtube video to understand more about blogs and wikis.
Blogs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
Wikis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

My New Media Class – So Far

What kinds of technologies are part of the new media?
Of course, computer, iPhone/iPod, internet, and many other things are parts of the new media technologies. According to the article “The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework”, the Five C’s represents the meaning of the new media: communication, collaboration, community, creativity, and convergence. All new media are creativity of the design that creates new inventions. We can communicate to each other by using telephone/cell phone. We also communicate with other by using internet (social networking). In Wiki, we collaborate our ideas and put it together. Blogs creates a small community and connect people to each others.

How important is the Internet to the new media?
The Internet is very important to the new media. However, if the computer doesn’t exist, we might not even hear the word “Internet”. It is playing a big role for computer. The Internet connects computer around the world. If there is no Internet, then we don’t have any kinds of Website. No wikis. No blogs. No online shopping. Nothing. Internet helps us to communicate with other faster and anywhere we want too.

Why and how are the new media replacing / enhancing the old media?
I think the new media is not totally replacing the old media. The old media still exists as before. I always see people reading newspaper every day. Students still use text books. Elder don’t know much about how to use the new technologies. However, the new media is helping us to get information in a faster way from the old media. In order to do research, we go online and search for information through the Internet rather searching the information from the book. Somehow, in the next generation, the new media might totally replace the old media. Kids are studying by playing games through computer. My generation becomes old, then the old media are replacing by the new media.

What is New Media???

New media is a web-related or all forms of electronic communication. New media includes blogs, wikis, online social networking, e-mail, digital camera, PSP, internet, etc. It helps our life to be easier than before. We can update all news by reading news from internet. If we want to search something, we can go to google or wikis then by one click we got the information. Here is the link to youtube, it will explain you more information. (Now I’m using the new media to define what new media is.) Now what do you guys think “What is new media?”.

Impact of the New Media in the Philippines and Thailand

Right now, new media is playing a big role in the society even in the developing countries such as Philippines and Thailand. New media helps our life to live easier but also affect us in the negative ways. We will research the impact the new media that affect Philippines and Thailand in both positive and negative ways. How do the new media affect teenager and kids in Philippines and Thailand community?

First day of week

Well, I just came back from school.
Today I only have one class from 9:30-10:45.
It is a CIS2200 class.
We didn't really do anything yet.
However, he already gave us a first assignment which is to create a homepage from Blackboard.

In this afternoon, I might go to Queens Mall with my friend.

After come back from Queens mall, I have to read Homer for my English class.