Rahiq Mohamed's New Media Blog

Currently I have not added any content as of yet, but what I do intend to add to the Class Wiki page(s) are: Update some of the content in the YouTube page in the Class Wiki, talking about more up and coming YouTubers who have impacted the community as well as changed the social media game for years to come. I'll also include another prominent YouTube channel like Complex into the YouTube page of our class wiki. I'll be explaining the significance of these more recent YouTube channels while updating that page in our class wiki.  I will also incorporate more information on the Social Networking page, and delving into the "Live" features of social networking sites or apps such as "Facebook Live" or "Instagram Live." With my research I will explain more about what Live Streaming is, and how it is the future of social media. I will also look over the content in our Class Wiki, and attempt to edit and fix the content on these pages looking to eith

File sharing is a process where data can be allocated across a network for user to user who has privilege to access the content that is being shared. File sharing is best known for being able to distribute content between "peer to peer" as phrased by the writer of the article, "Content Producers should take advantage of P2P, not fear it." This follows up with another definitive New Media term, "P2P," file sharing as stated earlier stands for "Peer to Peer." P2P file sharing is very significant as it is capable to cater to big audiences. In the article, it displays how influential P2P file sharing is. An example of P2P file sharing was demonstrated in the article where it was stated that P2P file sharing, "... played a part in bringing people into the massive swarm of sharers that has helped us reach more than 2m downloads and an estimated 3m viewers in the 18 months since the film's release." The documentary, "Steal This Film-

With new media, there are always new arising challenges for our privacy. With the world becoming more transparent due to our obsession with social media and our constant sharing and double tapping, it has made it far too easy to be able to know what a person is doing. Daniel Reed wrote an article titled, "Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations" where he talks about the "evolving notions of electronic information privacy." In that article Reed mentions how challenging privacy issues have become with new media. Along with these challenges, we are presented with very vague terms of agreement documents that we check off when using social media as mentioned by Reed. The options we are presented with by using social media makes it very confusing for users, as the privacy specifications are not easy to understand. With social media, information spreads fast and can double. Friends within your circle can like a post, but it can circulate across the internet f

If I was hired by Baruch to use new media to improve the College, I would suggest that we utilize Social Media more effectively and make it school-appropriate. I believe the familiarity with social media should be a plus point for all college students, and if there is a way we can all be connected more efficiently it should be through social media. I believe it makes it easier to connect with our peers, as we will have the domain to further make connections and familiarize ourselves with classmates and other students within Baruch College. Also with implementing the use of social media, it allows easy access for being able to share Baruch related events across each student's timelines and news feeds. Social Media can help coordinate a lot of student events for Baruch and can significantly increase the student involvement at this college. Social Media is able to quickly draw attention to people with alerts and shares by others. I believe this can help create a great social environm

A very popular form of new media fostering creativity, is the internet creating challenges that people across the world participate in. Social media stars, celebrities, are all commonly known to be spreading such viral trends which become challenges that their viewers or fans participate in. Dance challenges are quite prominently shared in social media, with the simple addition of a hashtag and the name of the challenge on your post, allows you to view and connect with other people who are also participating in these internet challenges. We're allowed to be creative to our own personal extents with these online challenges, as everyone has a unique twist to the challenge, but is still relevant to the purpose of the challenge, whether it's for a good cause like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, or even a dance challenge. People do get recognized by these challenges, whether it's by the community or your favorite star or celebrity, reposting, retweeting, sharing on Facebook. I fi

New Media fosters creativity, because of the various ways that you can communicate across the platforms and new technology interfaces we have today. Today's world has become quite technologically savvy, as we're able to successfully utilize the new media we possess in communicating across the world. With such capabilities in communication like this, anyone and everyone can pitch ideas and be as creative as possible which is the beauty of being in a digital era. In fact, a lot of technology companies are supposedly "relying others to innovate for them," as mentioned in the "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From its Followers" article. Claire Miller also states in the article how influential people are due to the power of the internet, as people are exchanging ideas at high rates, and with computing tools at our availability, allows people to create new products inexpensively. Twitter was described as being heavily "user-generated innovation" throughout the