Tag Archives: social creativity

The Social Production of Art

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

A valuable introduction to the central issues in the sociology of the arts, this work draws on sociology, art history, feminism, and literary and media studies, to explain the social nature of the arts, their production, distribution, and reception. This … Continue reading →

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Handbook of Social Creativity Research

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

This Handbook brings together an international cast of experts to explore the social nature and context of creativity studies, focusing on methodology as a key component in advancing the social study of creativity. Two decades on from the pioneering work … Continue reading →

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Modelling Creativity: Identifying Key Components

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Creativity is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a variety of related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviors. If we wish to study creativity scientifically, then a tractable and well-articulated model of creativity is required. Such a model would be of great … Continue reading →

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Integrating Individual and Social Creativity

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The power of the unaided individual mind is highly overrated. Although society often thinks of creative individuals as working in isolation, intelligence and creativity result in large part from interaction and collaboration with other individuals. Much human creativity is social, … Continue reading →

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Making is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark on the world, and to … Continue reading →

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Social Creativity as a function of Agent Cognition and Network Properties

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Inventions – concepts, devices, procedures – are often created by networks of interacting agents in which the agents can be individuals (as in a scientific discipline) or they can themselves be collectives (as in firms interacting in a market). Different … Continue reading →

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Collective Creativity – Art and Society

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social … Continue reading →

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Creativity is a social process

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

A Danish anthropologist concludes that creativity is not a result of individuals. Rather, it’s a social process that occurs among individuals. To most people, creativity is inextricably associated with individuals who stand out as something special, thanks to their creativity. … Continue reading →

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Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

The steady rise of Wikipedia.org and the Open Source software movement has been one of the big surprises of the 21st century, threatening stalwarts such as Microsoft and Britannica, while simultaneously offering insights into the emergence of large-scale peer production … Continue reading →

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Creating Creativity

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity.  This ambitious goal can be attained by building on an adequate understanding of creative processes.  This paper offers a four-phase framework for … Continue reading →

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