Creativity

Create a new post on your blog with the above title. In your post, cite at least one of the assigned readings and discuss how new media fosters creativity.

In the business industry, creativity is definitely required in order to attract customers. No one would like to see the same thing again and again from different companies. Each company suppose to have their unique style in advertising their products and services. It would be uninteresting if it’s just the standard advertisement that wouldn’t make consumers interested or amazed. Technology has greatly influenced how the marketing industry works. Online marketing is extremely well known and is mostly used as of now in the 21st century. People buy and sell products online. New media has has changes the worlds view in marketing or online marketing. Creativity is a must if you want to be successful in the industry right now. 

New media fosters creativity by allowing everyone to have access to new media if they have the equipments such as a laptop, tablet, or mobile device with internet. A young teenager can download a bunch of apps and come across something like a singing app. He or she may discover his/her creativity and talent through a simple app. Access to the internet and websites makes it easy to create personal websites that can either become blogs or websites that can help others. Blogs can range from a food blog, adventures, integrated ideas from their own experiences can spark creativity. People can easily be capable of creating their own styles and implementing their interests into new media. By doing that, they can create blogs, their own websites, app, etc. In the article “Exploring place through user-generated content: Using Flickr tags to describe city cores”, it explains the point of tagging is to organize content for person means and are driven by idea of social contribution and desires to share with others. This tagging system can help with creativity and expose a certain content even more than without tagging.