Creativity

New media technology has enabled more people to be creative. One way people do so is by crowd sourcing. Crowd sourcing is when you obtain (information or input into a particular task or project) by enlisting the services of a number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the Internet. An example of this is in the article, "Twitter serves up ideas from its followers." In the article, it talks about how twitter monitored its users to see what features they would like to see on twitter. By doing so, Twitter was able to find exactly what its users wanted and create stuff that gears towards them. New media allows people to be more creative but I think that it also really helps people in finding creativty in others. For example, before new media if someone wants to show off their art they would have to physically print it out and show it to people like that. But now, people can simply post their works on social media and show it to people which helps people find creativity and fosters them.  


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html