Creativity and New Media

Not too long ago I was given an assignment focusing on the many generations of people present in our world today. The group I was in was to somehow depict "Generation X", known as the Baby Boomers, to the class by bringing pop culture from that time to the modern era. I decided that the best way to bring the two generations together was by using a form of new media, tumblr, to create a blog showing the music, actors, art, etc. on a single board. The following are some screenshots of our project, but you may also view the tumblr page here. In them you can see people like Prince and Elvis Presley, and music files you can play as you scroll through to immerse yourself in the time, while the header photo shows aspects of different decades in one photo to depict the assignment. I have never used a form of social media for an assignment or project before, so creating this page was very fun and somewhat innovative to me.



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