Next New

This is a tough one to answer because I feel like as of now everything has already been created but we all know that it's never the case. After giving this some serious thought I realized that people wanted to be able to check up on the lives of their friends so Facebook was created. Then people started to love the idea of pictures on social media so then Instagram was created. Afterwards people started to love the idea of sending other people short stories and pictures that would disappear and then SnapChat was created. So my next media idea would be a social media platform focused around comments and discussion. When someone comments on one specific thing on any of their existing social media platforms, the new media platform would copy and paste that comment in a post on the platform with users who are currently speaking about the same thing. This way you can always communicate with someone about any topic from anywhere in the world. I think this platform would be great because it would allow its users to always have someone to talk to about whats on their mind.

Privacy

Even though the creation of new media has allowed mankind to advance in ways never thought possible, there still remains loopholes that cause problems. Social media for example has allowed us to willingly let everyone and anyone in our lives. From the moment that we allow random strangers to follow us to the moment that we post a picture with our location publicly attach to it, we are asking for no privacy. They know that this lack if privacy isn't good for us but they don't care, they make billions of dollars a year on our "lack of privacy". This data that we willingly allow social media sites to collect from us is then turned around to help them sell advertising to big companies. This is how we ended up seeing ads for a product that we searched for on a completely different social media platform. This no privacy world that we love to be apart of also sets us up for failure. Given everybody in this world makes mistakes every once in a while. MOST of us become better people after each mistake we make as we tend to look back and learn from them. Now how does a stupid Facebook post that you made (and regret making) years ago effect your chances of success at landing a job; new media. The lack of privacy on new media channels allows our hopeful employers to search back in time and trace our online identities as far back as our lack of privacy began. Year after year, the epidemic is only getting worse as new generations are born. Among various studies data was found to support the theory that those who are younger care less and less about their privacy. Even in the workplace as studies found out that Millennials tend to care less about prohibited new media usage at work. Its not that younger generations don't want privacy anymore, its that the information that we consider valuable has changed over the course of time.

Advice

If i had the opportunity to be hired by Baruch for the purpose of implementing New media I would change a lot of things. First thing first, I would implement a cloud connection among all professors teaching the same course. I've always felt that some professors are better than other, and students would be better of learning from different professors than just one. If Baruch had a system set up where students had access to the same lessons but from different professors, then students would actually understand material much easier. This would eventually lead to higher GPA'S and higher graduation rates. Another new media channel that i would implement into the school is a blog for students. Through the blog students would be able to get help finding clubs, events, peer to peer tutoring, and so much more. Baruch is a school with thousands of kids, and that means thousands of different answers to thousands of different questions. With a blog, Baruch could harvest that mind power and provide students with a way to make college life less stressful and more fun. One last thing, that I would change would be to create a platform where students could advertise their businesses and services (marketplace). So many students in Baruch have side hustles and giving them a platform to cater to their peers would be beneficial to both sides.