I believe that New Media fosters creativity in a multitude of ways. One platform at the forefront of this is Snapchat. Snapchat and it's ability to create quick, customized, and connected conversations is very powerful. The concept of sending a snapchat is taking a photo of yourself, a blank screen, or something else and sending that photo to one of your friends. However, an individuals has the ability to customize their photo in many ways. For example, they may add text on top of the photo to place a caption. They also have the ability to apply filters which change the coloration of the photo or add time stamps and weather. Users can also add a plethora of stickers, locations, and speech tools if they're making a video. However, the simplest tool which made Snapchat the holy grail of creativity was the pen. The pen was defaulted to a bright red which many millennials grew up using to draw, mark out, and caption their photos. Snapchat also connects to software like Bitmoji which allows individuals to create personalized avatars and place them on Snapchat's map to see where your friends are. A lot of this customization has aided users in becoming more creative and this can be connected to Lisa Mulcahy's article "How User Generated Content can Improve Your Social Media Marketing Strategy". In her article she depicts how companies can utilize the customized content created by users on various platforms to help market their company's software and tools. This is win win situation for companies and allows companies to understand how the users utilize their software the best.
P2P stands for "peer to peer" file sharing. This concept often exists at many large organizations and businesses and allows groups to share information, data, and files among their coworkers easily and have data be readily accessible. File sharing in general is putting one's files and data in a location where it may be accessed or even edited by others. Peer to peer focuses on limiting that group to direct coworkers or a set number of individuals. Some of examples of P2P file sharing are organizations utilizing software such as OneDrive. This platform allows users to save all of their data and access it on any device in which they can log into their Microsoft Account. A user may create folders within OneDrive that are shared with other users and apply user roles based on access levels. Another popular tool created by Microsoft is Teams. Teams is organizational tool which is based off the concept of sharing files, managing tasks, and coordinating meetings with other group...
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