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Creativity and New Media

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Since the pandemic hit and many international flights have been cancelled I haven't had a chance to go on vacation with my family. Once I saw this assignment I knew right away that I want to create something with my family in it. I found this awesome website called "Wimp Yourself" where you can create an image of yourself, your family, and your friends. I created my family on the way to vacation. This website gave me an opportunity to customize all the members of my family by choosing body shape, hair type, shape of eyes and nose, I added accessories like sunglasses, backpacks, chose the clothing and many more.  Here it is.... Reference: Wimp Yourself. http://www.wimpyourself.com

Creativity

                          In contemporary times, with the invention of new media agencies such as social media, there is an inherent boost in creativity, easily observed. Hence, how has the scope and demand for creativity increased with the popularity of various social media sites and changing times? The role of creativity in new media will be analyzed in this essay to seek answers to such questions.             Creativity exists because new ideas never cease to exist. With access to the whole world with social media sites such as Instagram and Pinterest, it is effortless for anyone to get new ideas from different cultures and think tanks. Additionally, smaller and bigger brands use new media to show their new creative marketing strategies to gain new clients, not only limited to their part of the world. All of this boosts creativity ...

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

 The virtual world is a computer-based environment for various users and is appropriately designed for such a purpose. Due to the high dependence on technology, the virtual world is changing to cope with the dynamism  (Chow, M. 2016). Communications purposes- virtual worlds are being used to pass information from one entity to another: lecturer- student interactions, conference virtual meetings.      Innovating scientific Tools- scientific fields have integrated lectures with 3D models for teaching and learning purposes. For Exhibition- virtual worlds have been employed in international trade platforms without physical human interactions. Pros and cons of virtual worlds. Pros : The virtual world is better than reality, which gives better experiences. It is applicable in several fields like the military, medicine, and education. Applicants enjoy incredible experiences with sweet graphics. Promotes connectivity between people as it passes messages. Cons : It ...

Blog About Twitter

  For the last years, Twitter has become one of the most popular social platforms worldwide. It provides an opportunity to initiate discussions and talk about the recent and most challenging issues. However, Twitter discussions have unique characteristics that distinguish them from other discussion types, including Blackboard and in-class ones. The primary feature of a Twitter discussion is the word limit. Twitter allows writing only 280 characters; it means that a user has to be concise and type only the most relevant information. Otherwise, the user will have to create several tweets, but the separation of the post into parts may complicate the understanding of his or her point. Additionally, the lack of space does not allow the user to provide references and use supportive resources. Therefore, Twitter discussions may be appropriate for simple topics and not for complicated subjects.  In turn, Blackboard discussions are similar to the Twitter ones, but they do not have the ...

Blog: Social networking sites

  A majority of internet users spend their time using social media platforms. These platforms are created to assist users in interacting socially with others on a global level and to connect with family, friends, and colleagues. The Internet hosts numerous social media platforms that are all intriguing in their own way. Hence, I decided to explore some of the most popular websites in order to give a brief overview of them.   Facebook Out of all these social media platforms, I found Facebook to be the most interesting. The reason is that along with being a convenient platform for interacting with others, it has numerous intriguing options such as groups, pages of interest, gaming, etc. The platform is also efficient for marketing and advertisement of businesses. What I admired the most about Facebook is that it allows its users to toggle a lot with privacy settings. The privacy settings of each post or action can be changed. Privacy is an issue on other social media platforms, ...