Nicole Taniguchi

  New media fosters creativity in many ways. In fact, most of the new media systems and platforms rely on the creativity of its users and consumers. Without the creative actions of people who like to film, write and review many platforms like YouTube or Twitter or Blogger wouldn’t have anything on their sites. Furthermore, new media allows users and consumers to have a more “personal” touch than that of corporations. In fact, many companies rely on and encourage their users to be creative with their products and post about them throughout the new media space. As Lisa Mulcahy writes in How User-generated Content Can Improve Your Social Media Marketing Strategy, “it's time to make the most of every avenue of user-generated content you can use to your advantage.” Since companies understand the power of user-generated content, they use new media to foster the creativity of their users and consumers. With unboxing videos, online reviews, or other forms of new media creativity; all of i...

     New media fosters creativity by letting you not only believe in your ability to create on your own terms, but it also gives you an audience for whatever niche you may have. New media doesn’t have the same barriers as traditional or “old media,” you can create your own blog instead of having to be approved by newspapers to share your writing. You can film your own videos on youtube instead of chasing production companies to share your videos. And, in my case, you can post on Instagram to share your photography easily and at any level (no need to spend years in training or money on expensive equipment.)  I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a photographer but new media, and Instagram in particular gives me the ability to be creative in the pictures I take and share them openly. In fact, since it is such an accessible platform that fosters creativity, I’ve been able to create multiple accounts to share the different aspects of my life. One of those aspects is the...

A twitter discussion is quite unique when compared to other forms of discussion such as blackboard or in class. It forces you to be much more succinct than the other two options.  Blackboard offers more space to write and compose your thoughts while in-class discussions can be unstructured and more spontaneous.  Twitter feels a lot more natural than blackboard and the reply / quote reply options are easier to navigate a conversation. However neither virtual platform has the total interaction that can be offered through in-class discourse. 

Among the most used social networking sites there seems to be many key similarities and differences. Facebook has the impression of being almost “homey.” Since it’s the site that I’ve used for the longest amount of time there is something easy about it that makes it easy to visit and waste time on. It has a simple, parred back design that displays the lives of my friends from my elementary school all through college.  Twitter feels a bit more hectic than Facebook, the short quick tweets makes the timeline pass by faster than that on other social media platforms. Since my “feed” is composed of people I follow and those retweeted onto my feed from people I don’t follow. It’s more of a surprise each time I log in and what I may see or read can range from current news to funny jokes.   Instagram is a highly visual platform, with a combination of “stories” and the posts on my feed it’s usually just a recap of the lives of people I follow. I’ve found the platform less inter eat...