A new type of "New Media" website that I would want to see developed actually targets the gamer audience. Many video game players feel that the companies who make their video games don't hear them out. They always put up suggestions on their websites and leave reviews, but companies tend to do what they want. On the contrary to that many play games they love, but don't see enough of because of the same reason, that video game companies just aren't aware of what it is people really want to play. This weird separation between companies and gamers has given the video game community a sense of entitlement where they think that everything they feel about the game is right. It would be interesting to give them a platform where they speak their mind and then have their own judgments put up for other games to see and then have to defend it to see if what they think about their games are really true, or they're just being whiny.
I would love to see a website put up where video gamers could actually go to vent their frustrations or give in-depth explanations on video games they have played and explain to the rest of the community why they should or shouldn't play them. It would involve clips of video games, images, along with detailed and logical reasons given by the particular player on why the game they played was so good/bad. This would also involve the ability to comment on one another's reviews so that people who give a game an unfair review would have to explain themselves and engage in conversations to help better refine why they thought what they thought about the game, and then come to their own conclusion about whether or not what they said is right. Maybe companies could even pay to be able to make profiles on the site and see what other people truly think about their games and establish the connection the community is longing for.
Monday, July 6, 2015
P2P
File sharing is the act of sending one's files directly from one computer to another. P2P file sharing is the act of a person from one computer directly sharing files that they usually don't own the rights to, to a person on another computer without a middle man involved. It's a way of getting around companies and other people that may charge for services by not involving them at all. All one person needs to do is have the files on their computer and then they are able to freely give it to whoever they please. This act is better known on the internet as "torrenting".
Some examples of P2P file sharing include torrenting Music from an album, where people can just download it from one computer and not pay the actual artist or the company that owns them for any album they've released. Another good example would be streaming movies online instead of paying for the DVDs needed to watch them.
The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, Wired, January 2005. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html
Some examples of P2P file sharing include torrenting Music from an album, where people can just download it from one computer and not pay the actual artist or the company that owns them for any album they've released. Another good example would be streaming movies online instead of paying for the DVDs needed to watch them.
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Privacy
Privacy has undergone almost a complete change since what it was like before the advent of social media. Presently whenever you're going to put anything up on the internet, such as a photo, you always have to remind yourself that it's practically like giving up your right to keep it private. Even with all of the privacy settings in the world on Facebook someone can easily just download the image to their computer and post it up anywhere without your knowledge about it at all. While some will call this unethical there currently aren't any laws or legitimate ways of preventing actions such as these.
However privacy hasn't changed in how accessible all of our information is. It's also changed in the mentality of the new generation who has grown up with social media and the internet. Now events in their life that should better be kept to themselves and not shared with others are posted online and laid bare for the world to see without much prior thinking about it. In fact, most people want their friends or others on the internet to know what they're doing. It's as though privacy is really just a concept they should use when they're being mistreated and not an over arching concern to how to lead their life in general. This has caused privacy to go from a "Black and white" type of concept into a grey line.
If people willingly share such private facts about their life, does privacy even exist at all? If everyone saw them at the party, is it a breach of privacy to post a picture of them totally drunk for everyone to see if they didn't do it themselves? Privacy is a hot button issue now. Especially with groups like the NSA involved and taking all of our information for their own personal uses.
However privacy hasn't changed in how accessible all of our information is. It's also changed in the mentality of the new generation who has grown up with social media and the internet. Now events in their life that should better be kept to themselves and not shared with others are posted online and laid bare for the world to see without much prior thinking about it. In fact, most people want their friends or others on the internet to know what they're doing. It's as though privacy is really just a concept they should use when they're being mistreated and not an over arching concern to how to lead their life in general. This has caused privacy to go from a "Black and white" type of concept into a grey line.
If people willingly share such private facts about their life, does privacy even exist at all? If everyone saw them at the party, is it a breach of privacy to post a picture of them totally drunk for everyone to see if they didn't do it themselves? Privacy is a hot button issue now. Especially with groups like the NSA involved and taking all of our information for their own personal uses.
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