Creativity

The article "The New Math of Mashups" discusses one way that new media fosters creativity. With sites where people can share music such as YouTube and Sound Cloud, it allows for people to get more creative with music and then share it. Musical artists can take parts of different songs and pieces, or add in parts they've created to make something completely new. Whereas before only professionals might have been able to do this, with the open accessibility through the internet and these music sharing sites, any kind of person whether an amateur, a professional, or just an average person would be able to do this. Some amateurs had been able to gain popularity by posting their mashups on YouTube such as a guy named Alex Aiono. He started posting videos of him singing to mashups of popular songs that he created and edited himself and he was able to get a really good response from people and made a career out of it. The article "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers" also talks about a way new media has fostered creativity. Twitter tends to come up with a lot of ideas for their site by looking at what their users are doing. The users themselves come up with trends and then the people at Twitter take notice of what is catching on and implement that into their site.

References:

Frere-Jones, Sasha. “1 + 1 + 1 = 1.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 20 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/01/10/1-1-1-1.

Miller, Claire Cain. “Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 Oct. 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html.