Brittany Aufiero May 17th, 2019 MCS 244 Prof. Brucker-Cohen The Importance and Future of Digital Currency Around the world, cryptocurrency is used as a government-untraceable method of electronic money transfer. Digital currency has transformed commerce and the way people exchange money for goods and services. While impossible to know just how many people use this …
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May 19
Final Paper: Virtual Reality’s Assist in Social Networking
Networking is the best social skill we should acquire starting at a young age. Social media takes away from the social experience. As technology gets integrated with work and school, networking in real life becomes in some ways easier as well as difficult. People are less willing to interact in person, letting good networking opportunities …
May 14
Final Paper : Computers
Jaritza Flores MCS 244 Jonah Bruckner-Cohen 5/14/19 Computers are devices that help us, humans, to get connected with the web in our society today. According to GeeksforGeeks.com’s article entitled, “Generation of Computers”, Anusha Sharma explained that “A computer is an electronic device that manipulates information or data. It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data. …
May 13
Final Paper : How Texting affects communication
Briana J Lugo MCS 244 Professor Jonah Brucker Cohen 12 May 2019 Final Paper: How is Texting Affecting Communication between People and Important Relationship The first form of texting would be considered emails where people use to send messages back and fourth through an email server. In the late 1990’s Nokia released the first flip …
May 09
Final Paper: LinkedIn
John Hecht 5/7/2019 Final Project: LinkedIn Professor Jonah Brucker Cohen Over the course of time we as job seekers have relied on personal connections and local job postings in order to help us find employment. This made it hard for many people to expand their horizons and find jobs that are …
May 07
Final Paper: Social Media
The rise of social media has proven to have changed the ways of communication within society. There have been many technologies that have led up to the creation of online communication, one of those being the first communication device; the telegraph. In 1972, the invention of this device allowed for faster methods of communication throughout …
May 01
How are mashups posing a potential threat to copyright laws online?
In the New Yorker article entitled, “1+1+1=1: The New Math of Mashups”, Sasha Frere-Jones stated that “Mashups find new uses for current digital technology, a new iteration of the cause-and-effect relationship behind almost every change in pop-music aesthetics: the gear changes, and then the music does. If there is an electric guitar of the mashup, …
Apr 30
Mashups
In simple terms, mashups are generally when the vocal from one song is laid over the music from another. In the article “1+1+1=1 The New Math of Mashups,” a well-known mashup album called “Collision Course” is a combination of Linkin Park’s vocals with work from Jay Z’s “The Black Album” which proved to be an …
Apr 30
Mashups
Mashups are when content gets remixed or people remix online content. It creates a potential threat to copyrights due to producers creating their own media based off of a original idea. So, they are not stealing, just editing it to their own taste. With copyright, it is mandatory to receive permission to use someone else’s …
Apr 30
Mashups = A Threat to Copyright Laws? By Jaritza Flores-Garcia
Copyright laws were made to ensure the safety and security of the World Wide Web but in some situations, users made music to gain popularity from their fans and their songs could top the charts in the music business, then what happens when two recordings were combined to create a powerful song that could spread …