New Media -Ashley Williams

           My first suggestion to improve Ba ruc h with n ew media is to create an account on a widely used platform to quickly and consistently update students on campus events. Baruch has social media accounts, but they are mainly targeted at potential students and not current ones. The first account that comes to mind is a Twitter account because it is quick, simple, and people can view tweets without a Twitter account. The college already has multiple Twitter accounts. The multiple accounts targeting potential students could be streamlined into either one or two accounts to make it easier to manage and for others to find information without having to hop from one account to the next. Then one account could be made for announcements for current students. So, if the college, or a particular building closes due to elevators etc. students would be notified immediately. Often announcements are made through email which students check only once a day.       As mentioned in my post

       A large part of new media is social media. When people think of social media, they often come up with cites such as Instagram and Facebook where individuals share posts, videos, and images with any array of people. These sites offer a sense of privacy by offering different settings for who can view one’s posts. It is often then expected that only those who the user chose to share with will be able to see the posts and that its contents would not exceed that group.        This is where it is important to know the difference between privacy and confidentiality. According to the Institutional Review Board at the University of Pittsburgh, privacy is “an individual’s right to control access to their personal information” and confidentiality is “how private information provided by individuals will be protected by [another] from release”(University of Pittsburgh, 2014).        The settings on some apps offer some sort of privacy by allowing the user to initially choose who may