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How Social Media Affects Today's Creativity

Sedar, Dillon J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500031248776811

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2017, MA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Art.
Today, new technologies and media in the 21st century are creating new opportunities for creative expression. When defining what constitutes artistic creativity today, researchers in art education are overlooking the role of social media. Social media is ingrained into the lives of Millennials and younger generations, and due to its inherent nature, does not always get credited in today’s creative practices and processes. This case study on contemporary creativity aims to highlight the impact of social media on the creativity of contemporary youth. Through conversations with four Millennials, all holding different creative practices in the 21st century, I intend to uncover how approaches to and practices of creativity now inherently include social media in some amount, whether large or small. Through this research, I aim to reveal the impact of social media on the creative practices of the Millennial generation as well as to suggest implications for future research in art education. Creativity scholarship in art education includes the work of Flavia Bastos and Enid Zimmerman (2015). In their edited book Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education, Bastos and Zimmerman look at the future of creativity through the following lenses: folk art and community connections, art-based research in the classroom, creative thinking strategies, neuro-creativity, playful pedagogy, creativity in 3-D virtual worlds, and refocusing creativity through a global lens. There is no specific discussion, however, on the impact of social media or on the connection of social media to creativity in this most comprehensive resource to date. My goal through this research is to bring light to this missing piece—the relationship of creativity and social media.
Linda Hoeptner-Poling (Advisor)
Koon Hwee Kan (Committee Member)
Juli Dorff (Committee Member)
98 p.
Art Education
Social Media; Creativity; Art Education

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  • Sedar, D. J. (2017). How Social Media Affects Today's Creativity [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500031248776811

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sedar, Dillon. How Social Media Affects Today's Creativity. 2017. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500031248776811.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sedar, Dillon. "How Social Media Affects Today's Creativity." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500031248776811

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