Thursday, October 27, 2011

Creativity

New media devices such as YouTube create avenues for creativity in allowing users to create a wide range of videos expressing ideas, giving out knowledge, providing comedy and many other things. Mashups such as turning Disney's Winnie the Pooh into a Soulja Boy rap video (Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why? article).  Mashups are so common in comedic videos.  I have watched videos of Dora the Explorer in so many accents other than her own. 
YouTube users are allowed to show their creativity in creating lavish videos for the world to see. I frequently watch the video blogger Ray William Johnson on YouTube to get up to date with funny videos circulating the Internet.  Within the first hour of him posting a video, he has about 100,000 views. By the end of the day he has successfully achieved 5 to 6 million views.  People comment and post video questions frantically to get their responses featured in his videos.
The use of videos to me expresses the largest amount of creativity.


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