ADVICE TO BARUCH COLLEGE

In order to improve the college I would recommend the use of blogs for a number of reasons. First, to get feedback from current students, because a lot of schools want to make sure that the institution creates an environment where students are satisfied with the service they paid for. It would not just be for the sake of blogging, but being able to use the information to implement changes, there are only so many that the student government can advocate for.

Also, there are alumni who would like to know what is going on at their past college. Faculty would be able to use this platform to inform other faculty members and alumni about new ideas and projects that they might have. Alumni will probably be more willing to give back if they know what’s happening in the school.

These implementations should serve the purpose of helping to improve the college.

OLD vs. NEW

We can distinguish new media from old media by taking a look at what is obsolete and what is not. New media involves all the applications that allow users to multi-task and even communicate with others at the same time. Of course, there are some old media that allowed us to communicate with others such as regular mail and newspapers, which by the way are still being used. New media on the other hand is less time consuming and you can have access to more than one component at a time. With new media, users can have access to information at their convenience as long as they have access to the internet.

Most of what is new media today is found on the internet, so if something is not on the internet it is pretty much considered old media. New media also enables communication, collaboration, community, creativity and convergence; I’m not sure how much community and convergence one can create with a newspaper.