CREATIVTY

Creativity is defined as the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work according to Google dictionary. One is only as creative as their imagination can be. In order to be creative, the more someone is exposed to certain things, they better they think of ideas to incorporate into other things. People’s imagination is endless and with the right tools, their imagination only that far away from becoming reality. New media fosters creativity in many ways. One way new media encourages creativity was mentioned in The New York Times article called “Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. Buy Why?” by Brooks Barnes. “Anthony Falzone, a copyright expert at Stanford, said, “Media companies have been fairly tolerant of Internet mash-ups and parodies so far.” Part of the Disney contents were edited as a music video similar to the one call “Crank that”, yet Disney took no actions to take it down or press charges for copyright violations. This shows that there’s a fine line between encouraging creativity on the internet verse using someone’s original ideas for profit getting. New media is like an encyclopedia of resources for people to use, it allows people to search up anything they wish and turn ideas into different ideas in many ways. As long as you can imagine it, you can look it up on social media and use it to create something completely different based on your own imagination.

Brooks Barnes. “Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?” The New York Times. September 24, 2009. Web. June 22, 2016