CIS 3810 Lanka Vidanapathirana

So far, I have added content to the health and fitness category of our class' wiki. More specifically, I have added on to what bodybuilding.com is and what you can purchase from it and the content that the website provides. I plan on further adding on to this category and have done more research into other various styles of fitness. This includes calisthenics and crossfit, in which I will create a new section and go more into detail within the health and fitness category.

- File sharing is being able to transmit files from one computer to another over a network/internet. - P2P file sharing is when a computer acts as a server and is able to allow access to files to other computers without the need of a central server. - An example of P2P file sharing is BitTorrent which is a P2P program. The article The BitTorrent Effect states, " BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3"( https://www.wired.com/2005/01/bittorrent-2/ ). Which shows, the capability of a Peer-to-peer filesharing program; where many users can find and download the software/files they need provided by other users. BitTorrent, leads to many illegal downloads of pirated software and movies because of the ease of P2P filesharing.

I used  https://avatarmaker.com/  to create an avatar of myself. I used the new media tools of personal features/characteristics provided by the avatarmaker website, to create an avatar that looks like me. Through the use of colors, outfit, shapes, and styles, from the website I was able to combine these features to create a unique avatar.

Media fosters creativity by making things easier to take and implement into something new and more advanced. Media allows for distribution of information easier, which then allows one to take that information and make use of it by the use of one's creativity. For example mashups, " 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." ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/01/10/1-1-1-1 ). The media/music allows a mashup to be created by taking two songs of different genres to create something new and interesting. Creativity comes into play when trying to make two different songs sound alike through the use of different instrumentals, sounds, and beats.

Virtual worlds are created to mimic real world instances, and can be perfect for testing. Virtual worlds can be used to test something that is timely and costly to do in reality. Virtual worlds can be used for gaming environments, where the user can play a game and feel the experiences head on while playing. A benefit of virtual reality is that it can also be used for prototyping, which can help visualize whatever is being built/created and may save money than building an actual physical prototype. Virtual world foster creativity in education by giving children a chance to learn through a virtual environment. " Students remember what they’ve encountered in the virtual world, said AIS’s Maxwell, who studied behavioral neuroscience for her doctorate."( https://www.reporternewspapers.net/2018/09/14/the-virtual-world-moves-into-the-classroom/ ). Students are able to remember better when interacting with virtual reality, which can enhance a student's learning experience. Cre

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat are all social media platforms to communicate with a large audience group. They all consist of posts and comments, in Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook the main user posts about something and their friends/followers are able to like the posts and comment. Both facebook and twitter are used to write and comment on something and share videos. Instagram is used for uploading pictures and short video clips where users are able to like comment on each individual post. On the other hand, snapchat is used to post a picture or video to one's story. Then the snapchat user's friends are able to view and reply to the story via messages. In a sense these social networking websites have the concept of blogs because one usually posts informal information, and another person being a user of that social media platform can comment on the original post.