Creativity

New media fosters creativity because they are a open platform when they are released. Since new media is mostly software without any real hardware, people can be creative and enhance the platform. By comparison, old media, such as a newspaper is already a predetermined product. It was established that it is in paper form and with a certain format chosen by the producer.

However, new media is based on the Internet, and like Claire Cain Miller's "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From It's Users" states, a lot of new companies based of the Internet are sitting it out and allowing for their users to innovate their bare-bone companies. Like twitter, it was released with little features, basically only with the feature to micro blog up to 140 characters. Users started to develop other features like using "@" to refer to somebody because they believed the site needed it. Once the owners of twitter saw that most users wanted the feature, they made it an integral part of the site.

Ultimately, new media fosters creativity because of it's nature, it is released in software, ergo it can be updated, meaning that it is not completely defined in it's inception. New media is always developing, always a work in progress, awaiting the next creative individual who makes it better.