HW Creativity
New Media fosters creativity from both the producer-end and the user-end. For example, Twitter monitors its own users to see what features they like and what they want to be changed or added. Then the company’s engineers turn the ideas into new features. In a 2009 New York Times Article, when Twitter was still in its early years, Twitter only offered a 140 character post. However, the company decided to outsource some of its idea generations to its users and the list and retweet features were born.
Technology companies now offer beta testing for its employees and its users. It could be a special developer program within the app where a user who is savvy in software engineering and/or design can create and test new features for an app with other developers. The company can release some of these features to a test market of a limited number of participants to see how well it performs. If it performs well, the developers can be rewarded handsomely. This establishes a platform for others to jump in with their own ideas, spurring creativity. Alphabet’s Google offers employees a department where it provides resources for them to test their own ventures. If the ventures are successful, Google will get a stake in the venture.
In an article published by Bentley University, there are three components of how technology and electronic communication create game-changing creative outcomes. The first is anonymity. Anonymity tears down the barriers placed on contributors. The shy who are creative can feel comfortable in sharing their poems, amateur videos, or thoughts anonymously online. The second is parallelism. On an online message board, there is no cap on who can talk at the same time. Multiple people can share at the same time and more ideas can be generated in less time. Lastly, the third component is group memory. Online tools such as Google Docs uses a live feed where people can share ideas instantly with everyone involved and made edits/comment on other people’s material. In addition, Google Doc saves all the changes in real-time and users can reference the document later to refresh themselves on what was discussed.
https://www.bentley.edu/prepared/how-technology-boosting-your-creativity
Technology companies now offer beta testing for its employees and its users. It could be a special developer program within the app where a user who is savvy in software engineering and/or design can create and test new features for an app with other developers. The company can release some of these features to a test market of a limited number of participants to see how well it performs. If it performs well, the developers can be rewarded handsomely. This establishes a platform for others to jump in with their own ideas, spurring creativity. Alphabet’s Google offers employees a department where it provides resources for them to test their own ventures. If the ventures are successful, Google will get a stake in the venture.
In an article published by Bentley University, there are three components of how technology and electronic communication create game-changing creative outcomes. The first is anonymity. Anonymity tears down the barriers placed on contributors. The shy who are creative can feel comfortable in sharing their poems, amateur videos, or thoughts anonymously online. The second is parallelism. On an online message board, there is no cap on who can talk at the same time. Multiple people can share at the same time and more ideas can be generated in less time. Lastly, the third component is group memory. Online tools such as Google Docs uses a live feed where people can share ideas instantly with everyone involved and made edits/comment on other people’s material. In addition, Google Doc saves all the changes in real-time and users can reference the document later to refresh themselves on what was discussed.
https://www.bentley.edu/prepared/how-technology-boosting-your-creativity
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