Creactivity

     New media has helped to foster creativity in multiple ways. Blogs have help to encourage creativity. They allow you to write your thoughts and simply express yourself.New  media also fosters creativity in the music industry. As stated in the article The New Math of Mashups from The New Yorker, "You don’t need a distributor, because your distribution is the Internet. You don’t need a record label, because it’s your bedroom, and you don’t need a recording studio because that’s your computer. You do it all yourself.”  New media has allowed people  to promote their music and ideas on their own without a record label or even a newspaper to do so. An example can be seen in the virtual world where you can dress up and be whoever you. Most if not all virtual world like the Sims and Second life allow you to  create your own content(i.e. hair, clothes, and virtual home).  The effect of the encouragement new media has on creativity can be seen on tweeter. In the article Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers , Claire Cain Miller states that  "The company watches how people use the service and which ideas catch on. Then its engineers turn the ideas into new features.