The sample topic provided by our professor, "Social Networking: A Purposeful Loss of Privacy" intrigued me. I wanted to dive deeper into this topic of how often times on the web we pay for "free" services with our data. With this paper i hope to further analyze how many "free" web services aren't really free. I hope to cross analyze how we pay for some of the following free sites with our personal data: Social Media, Google, and E-Commerce sites. I will guide my paper based on the economic principle of no free lunch. Which in layman terms means that even if something is "free" their is an opportunity cost of that action. In the case of new media, often times the opportunity of the "free lunch" is our private personal data.
New media involves the 5 c's: Communication, Collaboration, Community, Creativity, and Convergence. The next new media development will involve all five of those. I imagine a social media for musicians. People could select their instruments, and be partnered up with other users who they want to play with. For example someone playing the saxophone could play with another saxophone player and from a duet. Or a guitar player could be looking for drummer and a bassist to form a rock band with. Users would plug their instruments into the computer and listen to each other playing through their headphones. They could also share a live video of them playing. This new media would connect musicians around the world. Users could play with complete strangers or play with their band members if they couldn't meet up in one location. This new media would create a community of musicians. Who would converge together and collaborate on creating music together. This form of new media w...
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