Creativity and New Media

New media tools, such as Snap Chat and bitmoji have partnered up together to give online users a "second life avatar" essentially. Rather than real picture of us, we get to design and style a virtual avatar to whatever we may want, either a close depiction of how we may look like, or of a depiction that we wish we could be, or whatever the case may be. Snapchat has become a very popular new media tool for communication in the past decade primarily because of its ability to "snap" people pictures or videos of our day to day life, as well as posting stories for everyone to see. This collaboration between Snap chat and bitmoji is promoting creativity, we are tapping into our minds to depict ourselves online, how we want people to view us. Below is a snapshot of what I depict myself to be. We are able to edit almost every aspect of the avatar, facial features such as eyes, nose, facial hair, as well as all sorts of outfits and glasses.