New Media! - Allysia Sulaiman

New media and creativity go hand in hand. There are so many forms of new media that I could have chosen to express what I am passionate about. Growing up I never really used social media and I still don’t really use it. Instead, I created a Medium blog for one of my previous courses, but I still post updated content once in a while. I was told to write about something that I truly care about and am passionate about. This is why I chose to have a fashion blog with a more political and socially aware twist. The beauty and fashion industries are constantly changing and evolving to become more diverse and inclusive, which is amazing.  To get started, I had to create a profile and write a little bit about me. This is when I decided to make it a fashion blog. Using Medium is pretty similar to posting here on Blogger. For each entry, I listed a title with a brief description of what I would be writing about. Within the body of the text is where I got into my main points of what...

New media is a means of mass communication using digital technologies. There are so many different forms of new media, it is hard to keep up sometimes. Whether you are blogging like me, playing a virtual reality game, listening to a podcast or just tweeting, you are using a form of new media. Since there are so many options, each one fosters tons of creativity differently. Creativity can be both good and bad depending on the point of view that you take.   In the New York Times article, “Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?”, Brooks Barnes writes about how Disney keeps a close eye on all of its content. Disney usually does not approve of making their cartoons explicit or alternating something to change the meaning. If these videos are not harming anyone or the reputation of Disney, they are usually left alone. This specific video put “Crank That” by Soulja Boy over clips of Winnie the Pooh. I ended up watching a whole bunch of videos that utilized th...