Brannon's New Media Blog

With the increased implementation of New Media over the last 2 decades, information sharing and confidentiality has always been a concern. Back to the Facebook scandal with Cambridge Analytica, where Facebook was shown to have sold data to an app developer, to increased tensions with big social networking websites regarding protecting information. The issue with New Media is that, to an extent it is bridging the gap between people through easier and quicker communication mediums, but at what cost. Information is becoming more and more valuable in this era of E-commerce. Having worked at an advertising technology company before, I saw first hand how information with big data and cookies can be used for a company to increase their sales and concentrate their marketing campaigns. I feel that one thing people need to realize is that their information on these social media sites is actually pretty protected. The information that you provide on your profile is encrypted so that third parties

Baruch College can use a lot of work aside from just some implementations of new media. The over crowding of the school is something that cannot be ignored, from the line just to swipe into NVC, to the incredulous wait for the elevators during peak hours, Baruch faced a severe overpopulation problem. However, I believe new media can be used to fix, or at least alleviate some of these issues using psychology. I think the implementation of a regularly updated blog can be used to solve some of the issue of construction at Baruch. As a student, you really cant be sure or believe some of the timelines of these constructions projects at this school, such as the construction in the library, plaza, or the 23rd Street building. A blog would be a medium to share progress on some of these projects. For example, during the elevator fiasco with the 23rd street building where the lines were out the door, a simple progress check would make some students more at ease. A simple "If you're plan

With the introduction of new media, I believe that we as consumers faced more options than ever when it came down to customizing our own experience. We really have full creative freedom in many cases when it comes down to how we want to present ourselves over the internet. This is very prevalent in social media. In a very popular platform, Snapchat, we are able to send videos and pictures to friends in a temporary manner. This means that stuff that is sent through the platform is sent with a timer, allowing the sender to choose however long they want their pictures and videos to be visible for. In the case of the receiver breaking the rules and screen shooting a picture or video, the sender gets a notification. One way we can customize our profiles using this platform is by creating a Bitmoji. This is a virtual avatar that we have extreme lengths of freedom with to customize to our choosing. It allows us to portray ourselves as a character and is used as an identification with our acco

In the article 1+1+1=1 on the New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones discusses how Jeremy Brown, a DJ named DJ Reset, took apart 2 songs and made up a mash up. The mash up involved Frontin', a song by Jay Z and Pharrell Williams, and Debra, another song that is described as a "tongue-in-cheek" take on seventies soul music, very different than than the hard and shimmering computer music of the first song. Reset realized that the two songs have vocalists doing things very similar, and decided to mix them together, putting the singers exactly in tune. This is known as a mash-up and is self definitively comprised of mashing-up different songs and putting them together. The practice is common in the Electronic Dance Music culture. When going to shows, it is common to see many songs mixed with completely different songs creating an entirely new piece of musical art. The introduction of New Media fostered this creativity by allowing easier mixing of two (or more) pieces of music. What us

A virtual world may have just been a distant fantasy just a couple of decades ago but now is a reality, even back in 2008 with the VLES, a virtual representation of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, full of the ability to visit clubs and landmarks such as Katz Deli. The only thing missing is the hustle and bustle of traffic and the "smell of stale beer" as put so delicately in the article Dave Itzkoff on the New York Times in 2008. I especially love the part of the article where the author met someone on the streets of VLES and immediately hit it off and was able to tell her about his own intimate stories with getting sick before a concert, an admittedly personal story for someone who he has just met online. He continues on to say that when they met in person in a cafe in the area, that the interaction online was just as substantial and important as the interaction they had in person over a plate of fries. Aside from the socialization aspect of virtual worlds, it can also be

I feel that Twitter is very similar to our BlackBoard Discussions being that we have to post our own responses and then respond and feed back off of other peoples responses. At the very bare bone level, they serve the same purpose. However, there are many differences as well. One of them being structure, it is much easier to respond to people on BlackBoard because you can see the parent thread much easier than on twitter. The other issue is also organization. Each thread on Blackboard was organized into its own link and it was much easier to click on individual links/threads. Twitter however is more fluid in moving through different posts, because instead of just seeing a subject line, you really see the entire post. As opposed to an in-person discussion however, I find twitter to be very different. For one thing, much more thought can be put into a twitter responses and post due to the nature of being able to write something out, draft it out, edit it, and ultimately the ability to de