CREATIVITY

I believe that New Media helps foster creativity in many ways. For example according to the article "Youtube Traffic Characterization: A View From the Edge" by Phillipa Gill, Martin Arlitt, Zongpeng Li, and Anirban Mahanti, their paper presents the statistical human traffic that goes on in the New Media sharing site, Youtube. In their article they mention that over a three month period, they observed over 25 million transactions and over 600,000 downloads. As a user of Youtube as well i can agree that many of the popular videos usually get millions of views. Thus it also gives the creator more purpose to create new content and share on a regular basis. Not only do the content creators get paid for doing what they love and enjoy, they are also satisfied knowing that other people love to watch their work. Through this process creativity is born as more and more people want to get youtube famous whether its Vlogging, Travel guides, Gaming Guides, Beauty tutorials they all began with one persons creativity. Other new media sites such as Instagram promotes creativity as they are challenged to create new content for their posts and continue to grow their following and get more collaborators.