THE NEXT NEW THING

Being late due to NYC transportation is very common. For that reason, I would love to have a new media form that allows me to know at what exact time each train is going to arrive at my station, or at a specific station, sent directly to my cell phone... This would be a great tool or feature that could help everyone to plan ahead or take a cab if the train is taking forever to arrive to a certain station due to any inconvenience such as sick passenger, train traffic, or anything else. I would assume that this new media form could be introduced by merging MTA communication tools and some sort of Google feature or Cell phone service provider feature, in order to determine where a certain train is and how long is it going to take it to get to the next train stop. Of course, I guess I would have to pay for this service in order to select the station and time periods I would want to receive alerts for but I'm sure it will save me a lot of trouble on a daily basis.

ADVICE TO BARUCH COLLEGE

I am pretty satisfied by the new media forms currently used by Baruch College. However, I would like to suggest that all Departments/Professors change their required textbooks to textbooks that have an online interactive version as well and if possible online support. I think this is a great idea since it will be easier for the students who don't want to carry a heavy textbook and for the ones who doesn't want to pay a high price for a textbook that will only be used for a semester. This will also be very helpful for the students who need help on a specific subject by having books that offer online tutorials since SACC doesn't offer tutoring for every single class.

OLD vs. NEW

The most significant way of distinguishing new media from old media is by being able to identify if convergence, communication, collaboration, creativity, and community are part of it. Old media like newspapers, and TV were controlled by their private owner company. And even though those media forms turned into online versions of newspapers and Tivo, users are able to comment on the different articles published or on the TV show being watched. Nowadays, pretty much every time we are online, we are using different forms of new media such as blogs (which I'm using right now), wikis, social networking, P2P file sharing, among others. We are able to identify the 5 Cs of new media in these media forms mostly because they all depend on their users' collaborations, and every opinion and contribution counts.
New Media also differs from old media though the speed that the information is sent and received. New media forms allows faster sharing of information. Old media forms turned into new media forms by having books available in online versions, journalism is seen through blog posts, radio can be heard through podcasts, telephone/email/internet thorough mobile devices such as Blackberry phones, photography sharing through Flickr, and now even socializing through Facebook and other social networking websites.