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.