Creativity and New Media

An example of how new media has allowed us to express our creativity would be through memes. A meme is an idea that spreads from person to person within a culture or subculture. The internet has greatly expanded our ability to create and share memes. The media tool used to create a meme in this example would be imgflip.com. Here you are presented with a format, usually a picture of a pop culture reference. On this picture, you would add line(s) of text either expressing an opinion or an idea. For example, the meme created by tipsy_taylor used the format, Philosoraptor which is a play on the words philosopher and Velociraptor: https://imgflip.com/i/2x04cw

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