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I work inthe field of assistive technology. I love all technology.

In Twitter, An Emerging Creative Medium For The Digital Age. The notebook that Pulitzer-prize winning author Jennifer Egan used to compose her short story Black Box had eight small squares on each page. After a year of editing, those boxes turned into more than 600 tweets. In May, the New Yorker fiction department's Twitter account published the story during 10 one-hour nightly installments of tweets. Instead of using the platform to discuss a television program, a speech, or a news event occurring elsewhere, users tuned into something occurring on the platform itself. Twitter became not a second screen, but a first screen. The story Egan wrote developed differently on Twitter than it would have if written with another medium in mind. "This is not a new idea, of course," Egan wrote about her desire to compose for Twitter, "but it’s a rich one—because of the intimacy of reaching people through their phones, and because of the odd poetry that can happen in a hundred and forty characters.

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