The Next New Thing

A type of New Media that currently does not exist is a type of New Media that allows users to collaborate on video projects together. There would be an online platform that all of the team members can utilize and they would all be able to work on the exact same file at the same time. There is already a similar platform for word documents utilizing Google Doc or Google Spreadsheets. For coders, they have GitHub which similarly allows them to all work on the same piece together. In terms of video editing, it may be that each member in the group has a particular skill in video editing that they are more proficient in. In that sense, being able to work together would allow them to save a lot of time. There is always the possibility that they could piece together each of their individual works at the end. However, perhaps one scene requires a few of them to work on together. They may need someone to add in a special effect, one person to fix the lighting, one person to work on cropping and transitions. In that way, working separately just would not do. I do not know how feasible this is, but given the large scale projects that video editors work on, I think this can be highly beneficial to the field of video editing and the communities that practice the craft.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

Currently, for the class Wiki, I have been looking more into the MMORPG wiki page. I saw that Supercell was mentioned as a developer, however the information was not updated. I decided to update the information shown. Since Supercell recently released a new hit game which I currently play, I added a new Wiki Page that goes indepth into the world of Clash Royale. I currently have the basic structure of the page already done and hope that more people will contribute to it in the future. I noticed that the more I added to the page, the more things I noticed were missing. I understand that it is a long term project and I hope to make it as comprehensive as I can. I wonder if there are any other people who play the game who might be able to contribute to the page. I understand that there are many perspectives that one can have and hope to learn more from others too as we all work on our Class Wiki. I play the game everyday and will continue to do research to add on even more to the page.

P2P File Sharing

File sharing is a very controversial topic. It would make sense for there to be the option to share what you have with others. In terms of physical copies of books, I can always lend it to my friend. However, things are different when it comes to intellectual property and digital copies. By sharing files, I can essentially make a copy of it and make it so both my friend and I would have a copy each. This leads to the idea of piracy. File sharing is the act of sharing files over a network. Meanwhile P2P file sharing is using peer to peer options which have end users acting as the network in order to share content such as media files, books, ect. Some examples of P2P file sharing would include all forms of torrent and even certain software such as Pando Media Booster. Torrents allow users to share files with one another directly, and many things can be uploaded onto the platform including intellectual property and copyrighted material. Meanwhile Pando Media Booster which is used in multiple applications is used to allow for a P2P download aspect for specific software. It can be beneficial when there are many people uploading the content however, it may operate slowly when there are not much people uploading the content. To really gain a perspective on how popular P2P file sharing has become, The Bittorrent Effect explains, Bittorrent traffic makes up for about 1/3 of all data sent across the internet. It can be much more efficient than other download methods and I feel that the battle against it will always be something that is mentioned. It will be hard finding a right balance between the freedoms and rights that internet users have against illegal usage of torrents.