Creativity

When I think of the relationship between new media and creativity, I think of people using new media platforms to share works that they have made.  For example, people can post their fan art or fan fiction all over tumblr for others to see, spread, and hopefully the celebrity that it involves will see.  

However, in the article Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers, it shows how users' creativity can be used in a different way.  Instead of sharing works of art, people share their ideas on how to make twitter better for all the users on twitter.  "When people started referring to Twitter posts as “tweets,” Twitter resisted until a few months ago, when it applied for a trademark on the term." In this case, users decided to be creative and think of a name for their posts that are unique to the service.  It is also easier to ask if someone saw your tweet than asking if they saw your twitter post.  This also shows that a company should listen to their users in order to create a long lasting system.  

Due to users' creativity, Twitter now has numerous functions that were not always there.  These features include, retweeting, tagging people in a tweet with the @ symbol and using hashtags to mark tweets with a certain topic.  New media makes it possible for users to use a platform and change it to make their experience better.  They are able to think up new ideas that not even a huge company like Twitter would think of. 

Works Cited:
Miller, Claire Cain (October 25, 2009). Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers. 
     New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html