Culture, Communication, and Creativity

It is the premise of this volume that the rising importance of creativity in modern culture is related to dramatic changes in communication. In the last decades we have witnessed a revolutionary change in the ways we interact with one another. This transformation of the structure of communication is one of the most decisive aspects of the creativity of culture. The full aim of this volume therefore is to explore the resulting transformation in the relations of culture, creativity, and communication.

Contents: Hubert Knoblauch/Mark D. Jacobs/René Tuma: Introduction: Culture, Communication, and Creativity - Andreas Reckwitz: Creativity as Dispositif - Michael Hutter: Cultural Conditions of Creation: A Communication-Centered Approach to Reckwitz' «Creativity Dispositif» - Rudi Laermans: Creative Labor and the Production of Culture: Toward a Sociology of Commonality - Giovanni Boccia Artieri/Laura Gemini: The Networked Amateur: Performing Arts and Participatory Culture in the Continuum Professionals-Amateurs - Anna Lisa Tota: Creative Bodies and Creative «Leib» in Everyday Life - Anika Noack: «Anybody got an idea?» Communicative Forms, Roles and Legitimations in the Communicative Genesis and Negotiation of Social Innovations - Mathias Blanc: «Creative Documentary Film»: A Cultural Perspective on a Film Genre - Thomas S. Eberle: Photographing as Creative and Communicative Action - Hubert Knoblauch: Communication Culture and Powerpoint - Nick Couldry: Towards a Sociology of Voice: Exploring Creativity's Hidden Resources and Constraints - Andreas Hepp: Culture, Communication, and the Media: The Challenges of Mediatization Research - Joost van Loon: The Visual, the Optical and the Scopic as Modalities of Mediatization - Boris Traue: Communication Regimes and Creativity - Sabine Pfeiffer: Social Media in Organizations: Fostering Creativity and Communication - Changing Culture in the Process - Koen van Eijck/Gerbert Kraaykamp: Highbrow, Omnivore, and Voracious Cultural Consumption Patterns in the Netherlands: An Explanation of Trends between 1975 and 2005 - Tatiana Mozhaeva: Time and Space in Mass Media Discourse: The Intercultural Aspect - Nona Schulte-Römer: The Case of Berlin Gas Street Lighting: Translating Engagement into Innovation - Julia Walter-Herrmann/Corinne Büching: Creativity in Learning Scenarios - Nuno de Almeida Alves/Ana Delicado/Ana Nunes de Almeida/Diana Carvalho: The Internet and Creativity: Children as Prosumers of Online Cultural Content - Jorge Brandão Pereira/Heitor Alvelos: Stories of Chairs: Digital Media and Participation in Creative Communication - Mark D. Jacobs: Serious Eats: Community as the Key to Creativity in Wired Popular Culture.