Creativity

New media fosters creativity in many ways nowadays.  With the internet, people are able to create and upload any kind of videos, such as video logs or "vlogs", videos of babies laughing, videos of animals, etc.  New ideas and creations are constantly created with the use of new media channels.  Take for example Twitter, many new ideas and features of Twitter came about because of the creative minds of its users.  According to a New York Times article by Claire Cain Miller entitled, "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers," the symbols @ and # were all created and thought up by users.  The @ symbol is famous for its use to direct readers and followers to the person mentioned.  The creation of the hash symbol was also very interesting as it was idea that was shot down.  However, its creativity caught on and is applied to conferences and meetings and eventually any event that people come up with today.

With something as simple as Twitter promoting creativity, who knows how other channels and mediums of new media can foster creativity.  With YouTube, people are able to use videos to reply to other people's videos, similarly Twitter has the feature of "retweeting" other people's Tweets or a response to their Tweets.  In fact, creativity can be seen in every aspects of our lives as our lives are constantly revolving around the internet which brings out the creative side out of all of us.