New media, through convergence and collaboration, most definitely fosters creativity. Two different ideas that converge can often have a vastly different impact than what most would expect. An example is in Brooks Barnes' article. Taking the notoriously popular "Crank Dat" song and combining it with popular cartoons targeted towards children, ridiculously entertaining videos are created.
New media and technology create convenience, thus simplifies the process of sharing information. This again brings up the problem that the convenience and simplicity also makes it easy for pirating and taking other peoples' credits, which goes into the topic of patents, copyrights, and other rights. Unfortunately, these tools have a severe negative impact on creativity. So although new media fosters creativity, rules have been implemented to restrict creativity.
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