[Air-l] The value of creative expression outside pedagogical contexts

[Andrew J Perrin]

From a very different literature, take a look at Hans Joas's _The 
Creativity of Action_ as well as (not to toot my own horn, but) Perrin, 
_Citizen Speak_ which makes an argument for creativity as an appropriate 
way of gauging citizenship activities.

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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, David Brake wrote:

> One of the most interesting findings (for me at least) of the last
> Pew survey on weblogging was that the top motivation for it was the
> expression of creativity. I have been trying to find a literature
> that talks about the importance of being able to express one's self
> creatively that doesn't mainly relate either to education or to
> creativity as a way of gaining access to a group with status (eg fan
> creativity). It seems a lot of the work by scholars like Henry
> Jenkins agrees tacitly that the Internet is giving people who might
> not have other avenues for creativity a chance to be creative and
> this is good but I don't recall coming across anyone who elaborates
> on this except Willis, P. (1990). Common culture : symbolic work at
> play in the everyday cultures of the young. Buckingham, Open
> University Press and (in passing) Atton, C. (2001) "The Mundane and
> Its Reproduction in Alternative Media", Journal of Mundane Behavior,
> 2 (1).  http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v2n1/atton.htm
>
> There's also Rodríguez, C. (2001) Fissures in the Mediascape : An
> International Study of Citizens' Media, Hampton Press, Cresskill,
> N.J. and others writing about alternative media but they mostly
> concentrate on the political benefits of being able to express
> yourself. I am more interested in broader sociological issues.
>
> Anyway, any ideas?
>
> an
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> David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London
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