Introduction....

I am Pavneet Singh.. I know I'm kind of late to put up this post... This is my 4th year and the last semester at Baruch and I'm majoring in Finance. I live in Long Island right next to queens. I'm from India and belong to the Sikh religion. Sikhism is one of the youngest religions and has 20 million followers over the world. In our culture we greet each other by saying SATSRIAKAL (SAT-SRI-AKAL) which means praise the god (Sat = truth, Sri = great, Akaal = Timeless Being ie God).

About My Term Research Paper

I did my research paper on the topic of disability and new media. I tried to find out the changes that came in the lives of disable people with the advancements in new media. I tried to using the library databases for the research, it was very helpful and rest of the content Google helped me out with. I think virtual worlds and other social networking sites have given a chance to the disable people to socialize. they have more freedom as the technology is improving to give them a better access to all these resources. New media such as blogs have helped them have a better say, it has also allowed them to express themselves. There are online shopping sites which are being used which is allowing the disabled people to sit in the comfort of their homes and buy stuff. I found out although the changes are slow but more and more websites are becoming accessible to the disabled. The new business models online are trying to focus on the people with disability because these groups are underprivileged, this would earn the businesses higher revenues and give disabled a better and an improved access.

Privacy Issues

With the technological advances in new media, privacy issues have become more relevant and prevailing. Privacy issues involving the internet are the most threatening and controversial. With the public more conscious of their rights, invasions of privacy through these mediums are becoming issues of debate.
There are many privacy threats made each time a person surfs the web. There are various ways that information about you or your activities can be collected without your knowledge or consent. Privacy protection is an important issue to people using e-commerce and online shopping. Online shopping and e-commerce has been a major internet growth area, with individuals now being able to buy numerous products online. Sites such as Facebook too promise privacy protection. Facebook gives their users privacy settings to control who is able to view their page/blog but even then your friend's friends can view up to certain amount of information on your page. Individuals don't realize that even if you giving up small bits of information on different sites, with the new technology, people can come across these vital pieces of information by Googling and they can combine DOB, your name even your address and use this type of information for fraud. Although regulatory bodies and organizations are working to protect civil liberties and privacy it is up the individuals themselves to decipher how much information they want to put out there for everyone to see.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

In the class wiki I decided to contribute in the new media and sports section. I put up interesting stuff I found out about the new media is changing the sports. New media has allowed to bring the audience closer to the game and their favorite players. I put up articles about HIGHSCHOOLOT.com which is a site that is dedicated to the high school football. It recently launched an iPhone application which has allowed the users to stay updated on the scores. I also put up the article about twitter and how these sport figures are using twitter to get in touch with their fans and being followed by millions of users. Another article I put up was about the Sports telecast on the internet which is allowing tournaments to be telecast on the internet and how it had allowed the sport fans to keep in touch. I decided to contribute in New Media and business section where I put up an article that talks about the Good search which is a search engine and which is helping non profit organization receive funds. I added the same article in the New Media and healthcare section where I mentioned about the Good Search sites and Google grants program offering help to the healthcare research organisations.

The Next New Thing

The next new thing that I expect in new media will be virtual classes. This will allow the students to sit in a virtual classroom and get the lectures from their home. This will save time for the people who commute and spend an hour or two travelling. There can be a fixed time where all the students can be in the classroom and the professor can lecture. This will save time and effort for the students and the professors. Students will be able to submit their assignments in the classroom and should be able to take quizzes and exams. Students should be able to do in class writings by typing up the assignments given right away and submitting it. Setting of the classroom can also incorporate options like discussion boards and peer to peer chatting.

Advice to Baruch College

I think Baruch college should use a function like twitter and should encourage all the students to be connected. This is will keep the students informed about the stuff thats going around in college. Announcements can be made through tweet and professors should have the access to inform the students if he/she is coming late or not coming to class at all. Baruch should also offer more online course because its makes it easier for the students to take classes along with their busy schedule. The school should make blackboard more advance so the professors could record their lectures and would post them. This idea would be a good help tool for students to do well on their classes. This will allow the students to download those lecture on iPod or mp3s and revise their stuff on the train or whenever they get a chance

My New Media Class - So Far

There is a wide range of technologies that are part of new media, it can vary through different platforms from the Internet, entertainment, news, advertising industries to the incorporation of communication technologies. New media involves technologies like blogs, Flickr, Yahoo messenger, E book reader and Ezines etc. New media technologies have revolutionized our daily lives.

Internet is the most crucial part of new media. The new media technologies which we're using nowadays would't be accessible without internet. Internet has brought everyone closer and has enabled us to communicate through blogs, wikis and online social networking sites . internet has helped new media in bringing the society closer and has allowedthe consumers to come online to present their opinions.

One of the biggest reasons why old media is being replaced by new media is because of the speed that new media functions in. New media is much more faster and developed from newspapers to Stamps, from Radio to Books to E books everything is getting faster and more advanced. New media is easy to access, convenient to use, globalized, promotes interactivity, it has revolutionized out quality of life.

Interesting article about the new media being used by the jurors

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/us/18juries.html?_r=1&ref=internet