Creativity

        New Media fosters creativity because it has made technology today so much more user friendly. This allows everyday people to actually be able to turn their imagination into a reality when before they would not be able to figure out the complicated software to do so. An example of this is seen in The New York Times article, “Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?” New media has allowed people to be able to edit cartoons and songs and put together snippets to create “mash-ups.” In this article, they discuss how classic Disney characters such as Winnie the Pooh, Simba, and Bambi are turned into rap stars singing along to Soulja Boy’s “Crank That.” Also, while companies such as Disney are really cracking down on piracy, “Anthony Falzone, a copyright expert at Stanford, said, “media companies have been fairly tolerant of Internet mash-ups and parodies so far” (Barnes).

Citations:

    1.     Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why? The New York Times, September 24, 2007; available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/media/24crank.html