Creativity

New media fosters creativity by bringing people together with technology and allowing any idea no matter how unheard of or ridiculous ridiculous to come to fruition. New Media has the potential to bring people together with other people as well as an idea. With new media websites such as kickstarter a person with just an idea can post it, ask for funding to develop it and develop a network to make it happen. For instance,the concept of mashups requires technology that wasn't readily available to the public just a couple years ago. Many DJ's  separate instrumental tracks from vocals just using frequency filters. If someone had the idea to do so using software that used advanced programing rather than just frequency range filters, they could post the idea on kickstarter, get funding, create an organization and network and get it done. Now even though that's not how the software in the article came about. It is an example of how collaboration through new media fosters creativity

All in all new media fosters creativity because it connects people with ideas. Web apps such as Google's office suite, Google Docs, allows multiple users to collaborate on documents and other projects. By hosting and working in the cloud, ideas can pour in from almost and unlimited number of sources around the globe. Currently, the most popular cloud services are focusing on personal music libraries and document sharing/ hosting. That doesn’t meant that one day, these services won’t expand to other areas. For instance a  cloud based GarageBand that allows musicians to create tracks in real time from locations scattered around the globe.