The Next New Thing

In the future, I believe all the devices that we use everyday, will all be integrated into one for the users convenience. In addition, these objects will only get smaller and smaller, and work faster and faster to best fit our needs. Also, we will not have to worry about getting reception or connection everywhere we go, because one day it will work anywhere, whether it is in a basement or at the bottom of a well. One day, we might even find that we wont need credit cards or metro cards anymore because all we would have to do is wave our hands in front of a machine and it will be recognized who we are. Although I do think that all of this will be more convenient to the users of everyday that value every second of their day, I believe that is a bad things because people will no longer have the privacy to share who they are with others.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

I am the editor for the New Media and Economics page. I have done a little research on this topic, just trying to get a simple understanding of how new media and economics work together. So far, I had added a picture to the page. In addition, I have began to write about the history of new media economics. I have also began explaining the many benefits of how new media and economics work together to bring in a bigger revenue for a company. I hope to show what the economics of new media really is and how its used daily.

About My Term Research Paper

My topic for the term paper was new media and privacy. I feel that because new medis is used everyday in our lives and that society has become to independent on it, people should also see the flip side to it. Everything good also has a bad side. The good side to new media is the 5 C's: communication, collaboration, community, creativity, and convergence. The bad side to new media is the lack of privacy it presents to the users. Social networking sites, blogs, wikis and mashups are all used everyday and the users take advantage of it. It is used for personal reasons along with business reasons. But the lack of privacy can be seen when posting a picture on facebook, using a site that stores cookies into your computer, and even third parties on these sites. Although there are more, those are the ones that I mainly focused on. his has in impact on society as a whole because the world has put thier gaurd down to the fact that there is even a risk. But it is now more than ever that society should be aware of the risks and the potential impact it has on us. I have always found the privacy issues of anything new and current interesting because it seems that there are many loopholes.