HW Creativity

New media often fosters creativity through interactive outlets. Considering the basics, there is social media such as Twitter, Instagram an Facebook. My theory is that the challenge of such outlets is to be more creative with less words. No one wants to read a paragraph text on Facebook and no one wants to read a diary entry under an Instagram post. Twitter is basically a culmination of those view points.  Twitter took the limited characters feature and make is a challenge. Rather than it inhibiting the extents of it's users messages, in aided in and fostered their creativity. We have hundreds of Buzzfeed listicles dedicated to the hilarity of twitter users tweet on certain trending topics. Tumblr posts that are most popular are the ones that have threads containing short quick humor or clever comments. Somehow, society took the limitation of characters, whether explicit like in Twitter, or a societal norm like on Facebook or Instagram, and formed that into a challenge to be as creative as possible. "Many conferences, for example, announce the so-called hash tag at the start of the event so attendees can mark all their posts the same way and people can search Twitter for everything written on the conference." (New York Times, Claire Cane Miller) This is a perfect example of Twitter itself causing it's community to come up with creative tweets surrounding one simple hashtagged idea.

Another example of new media fostering creativity with limitations is memes. The difference in this case is that memes nowadays are made with the specific intent of taking the smallest possible idea and being as humorous, relatable, or relevant with it. New Media like Pinterest and Instagram force us to capture quick snap shots of the messages we want to get across to the world. And because of this pictures mean more than a thousand words nowadays. Furthermore, in a world of a million pictures, we need to find a way to make sure our pictures are worth more than everyone else's. Once more we are forced to be creative in the way we present such things to the world. Whether images, text posts, or memes.

Virality is also a big factor that comes with new media. It seems like anything can go viral in this day and age, (anything can be a meme) but it's the interactivity that appeals to people. They almost want the challenge of taking the bare minimum of something so small and seemingly irrelevant and MAKE SOMETHING... ANYTHING out of it (in the case of memes).

There is also the idea that creativity from smaller things is more impressive that creativity from more advanced technology. For example, if I make a hilarious video using the most basic pre-installed editing tools available on my computer, it means more than if a high tech computer with high tech software was used by an expert in a field to make something with the same humor. "Mashups find new uses for current digital technology, a new iteration of the cause-and-effect relationship behind almost every change in pop-music aesthetics: the gear changes, and then the music does." (The New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones) This is an example of taking ones own intellectual creativity and using simple tools to create powerful or just unique music for an audience that is interested in such things.With high tech expertise, however, comes the pressure of going above and beyond. And with these new medias and new technologies, that pressure is what made all the best and most creative 3D videos, CGI, and graphics

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.