The Next New Media

I would like to see a new media that allowed for people with visual and hearing impediments to interact. Maybe a site that integrates technology and new media to make it easier for them to meet other people, share their experiences, learn, play and facilitate their integration to society. Something similar to Facebook or Twitter that includes options like automatic reading out loud of posts in their profiles, videos that detect what a person is saying and subtitle the content in real time, games according to the impediments. I believe this will be beneficial for this portion of our society.

P2P File Sharing

What is file Sharing?

Like the name says is a way to share files using computers connected to a network using special software. These files can be music, books, movies, video games, among others

What is P2P File Sharing?

Also known as peer to peer file sharing is the use of P2P software to share content like music, movies, books through a P2P Network of computers connected that by a simple search will find the content solicited. 

What are some examples of P2P Sharing ?

One of the first P2P sharing is Napster but we have a million more like BitTorrents, limewire (no longer available), Xtorrents, Transmission. Brian Stelter and Brad Stone in their Article "Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios" a site called Super Nova Tube where you post videos of any length.  

Privacy and Confidentiality

         Privacy has being an issue since new media came up. How our information is shared with other companies, groups, individuals with many purposes like marketing, studies, etc. Any information we put out there is used to either send us promotions about products or service that according to our sex, age, interests we could be interested in or to run some sort of background check to possible candidates to a job position, etc. We have as an example Facebook ads that targets people according to their age, ethnicity, education, location, etc and display ads on their profiles that might be of their interest. But in many cases we the users of these new media are the ones that put in risk our privacy. We share to much needless information that could get us in trouble, and if we add to that the fact that we seem to forget what privacy and confidentiality mean. We do not need to share every single aspect of our lives, where we live, where we are, some photos and/or videos. We also don't pay attention or do not care enough about learning how can we protect our information using the tools these new media provides like privacy settings such as limiting the access to our profiles to certain group. Nevertheless some aspects of privacy we can't control but the less we share the less we have to worry about how could this information could hurt us like for example, when we are looking for a job since it is known that companies check these new media to get some background info.