The next new media I would like to see would involve more than the three main senses that all media currently caters to. For instance there is media for sound, sight, and to some extent touch, but there is nothing for taste or smell. I can see how before there could be an issue considering the limits of technology, but I think as technology gets better, especially with ways to read and stimulate the mind, I feel like Virtual Reality which included taste and smell as well could be a whole new media.
Picture watching The Great British Baking show and as the baked goods are being made you can smell the deliciousness in progress! There would need to be options that can be adjusted, such as intensity or blacklisting certain smells that are offensive, and the ability to opt out of it all together, but the potential for this new media would be great. Of course this will be like all media at it is first introduced, the niche market, the scapegoating, the general acceptance, and finally the realization of being a new media.
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Blog: P2P
File sharing happens when a file is shared between two people. The download speed is usually not a problem, but when it comes to uploading there is almost always a bottleneck because the upload speed is almost always limited. So the file transfer is restricted by the sender and the receiver is the one that has to deal with the frustration. (The BitTorrent Effect)
P2P, or peer to peer, file sharing is a connection between two computers over the internet. So instead of downloading something form a single person with throttled, limited, download speeds, instead groups of people share the file and your computer draws from all of them to download the file quicker. P2P file transfer though puts a lot of trust in the peers that the file is coming from.
Torrent, a way to someone to download a file in pieces from different sources instead of downloading the full file from one source, which bypasses the upload limit that a single transfer source can limit the speed of the download. The ones I am familiar with the most are BitTorrent and Utorrent, for current P2P programs, but the most well known before is probably Napster, which was only for music files, and raised a lot of controversy about pirating.
P2P, or peer to peer, file sharing is a connection between two computers over the internet. So instead of downloading something form a single person with throttled, limited, download speeds, instead groups of people share the file and your computer draws from all of them to download the file quicker. P2P file transfer though puts a lot of trust in the peers that the file is coming from.
Torrent, a way to someone to download a file in pieces from different sources instead of downloading the full file from one source, which bypasses the upload limit that a single transfer source can limit the speed of the download. The ones I am familiar with the most are BitTorrent and Utorrent, for current P2P programs, but the most well known before is probably Napster, which was only for music files, and raised a lot of controversy about pirating.
Blog: Privacy
Privacy in general is in such a strange spot, but when it comes to new media it is in a very strange spot. I can't remember the article, I browse google news app on my phone entirely too much, but there was an article about Facebook and it's privacy settings. The article tells of how a member of the Zuckerberg family, Randi who is Mark's sister, had posted a personal family photo but because another user was friends with Randi's sister they were able to see the photo. Thinking Randi posted it publicly, because the user was a subscriber to Randi, the photo was retweeted out.
The exchange that followed afterward between Randi and Callie, the user who retweeted the photo, was saved by Buzzfeed, and can be found here, which is pretty ironic considering who Randi is related to. It is funny because her privacy was breached accidentally by a fellow user, where as everyone else's was breached by the creator of the website.
This is the reason I closed my facebook account and generally don't post to any social media. There is no way to know what is happening behind the scenes of these sites. It may sound like paranoia, but coming from a job in IT I know what kind of back end access I have to the work accounts my colleagues use and I am not the owner of the company. So if I have that much information at my hands, imagine what the owner of a website that people put all their personal information onto has.
The exchange that followed afterward between Randi and Callie, the user who retweeted the photo, was saved by Buzzfeed, and can be found here, which is pretty ironic considering who Randi is related to. It is funny because her privacy was breached accidentally by a fellow user, where as everyone else's was breached by the creator of the website.
This is the reason I closed my facebook account and generally don't post to any social media. There is no way to know what is happening behind the scenes of these sites. It may sound like paranoia, but coming from a job in IT I know what kind of back end access I have to the work accounts my colleagues use and I am not the owner of the company. So if I have that much information at my hands, imagine what the owner of a website that people put all their personal information onto has.
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