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If you have not added any content yet, then at least describe the research you have done and what you are working on towards this goal. I am going to expend on the Islam category under the Religion rubric. How is Ramadan experienced in the context of lock down amid covid-19?   One of the key point of Ramadan is sharing at a large scale. How are Muslims copying with the gathering restrictions and the closure of the mosques ? How is media, in terms of software and website, being leveraged to still get the gist of this holly month. How much disruptive is the pandemic and what opportunities are born out of this situation.  

What is file sharing? What is P2P File sharing? What are some examples of P2P file sharing "File sharing is a sharing and transmitting of computer data in a network or internet with various access levels. Through file sharing, one can access and transmit data from one computer to another, making efficient for the users to work on documents regardless of their location or computer access." The current context of the corona virus allows us to make optimal use of this capability.  P2P file sharing is sharing that happens from peer to peer through a software.  According to a New York times article, one example of P2P file sharing would be the  pirated video shared online  through t he wide availability of the broadband access and some  streaming sites like BitTorrent.  Streaming enables people to start watching video immediately without transferring a full coy of the movie. Margomin. (2016, April 13). P2p file sharing. Retrieved from https://mar...

The baseline of new media is information. As long as we have information at stake whether physical (old media) or logical(new media) privacy and confidentiality have to be involved. Most of the digital or electronic platforms are subject to privacy an confidentiality issues. It is basically any information that are deemed revealing and could cause harm to the owner of the piece of information. The information could be a simple picture of the Zuckerberg  that is inadvertently re posted on twitter by a stranger who thought that the picture was open to the public. It could also be some critical and highly confidential data about the NSA, sold by the security administrator  Edward Snowden to wikipedia. New media platforms bring together users who are dealing with tonnes of private information of their own and the line between private or confidential and public information could be to thin to perceive. 

Dear Baruch College Administration, You are doing a good job by raising awareness around the topic of new media in the college. As new media is mainly about social and digital media platforms, I think that leveraging platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter is a very good approach to connect the students as well as the professors. On top of what you already have in place, I suggest you to explore the possibility of having an internal social network like the ones most companies have for their employees to link up and interact with each other. You may start with the students and monitor the posts while thinking about integrating the professors and faculty members and staff.

How new media fosters creativity ? As mentioned in our lecture: "Digital media represents a profound change from previous media forms." Digitization is to New media what computer is to internet. Today, in this digitization era, most people own a device enabling to create media, or to create contents. Software application like TikTok has the mission to capture and present the world's creativity, knowledge, and precious life moments. Therefore contributes to fostering people's creativity. Through TikTok, a lot of people are going viral thanks to the power of their creativity. Social media can foster creativity in the sense that people are not ashamed or scared to be judged since they can hide behind the avatar. Usually, creativity suffers from the fact that people mixed up the individual to the art produced. You can like a song and not necessarily like the author. Therefore, hiding behind an avatar, the risk to be biased is reduced and that represents a safe spo...

Cooking is a passion my wife and I share. On the weekends, we usually cook recipes from our home country - Cote d'Ivoire. Recently, we created an Instagram page where we share pictures of the food we cook. The main goal is to use food to introduce people to our culture. For us, it is a good way to stay connected with our roots and also meet people who are familiar with our background or interested in learning more about it. In our culture, Food is very important since it is the main attraction of all festivities (with dance and music of course).  Sharing a homemade dish is the way to share conviviality and show people you are happy to have them around. Adiala means in our dialect - It was good - to say the food was good. This is something you would say to show respect to the cook and thank her/him for the dish. We share pictures, as well as videos and recipe cards. Here a screenshot of the page. You can find us on Instagram @adiala_ivorian_cuisine . Cheers!!!!!