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Positive Innovation Networks
No full textIn this contribution, we introduce the concept of Positive Innovation Networks (PINs) as a framework to understand processes of co-creation and open collaboration involved in digital social innovation. Drawing on positive psychology, an emerging field focused on the empirical investigation of optimal human functioning, we deconstruct two assets that PINs can leverage to achieve transformative social change: networked flow and positive psychological capital. Networked flow is an optimal group experience that can unlock the creative potential of a PIN by maximizing the 'we-intention' of its members. Positive psychological capital refers to the capacity of a PIN's core team to accrue and spread hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. We show how these positive psychological resources can be measured and developed for improving PIN performance. Finally, we summarize the key traits of PINs and illustrate them through a case study
Call for Special Issue Papers: Virtual Emotions: Understanding Affective Experiences in the Metaverse
No full textCall for Special Issue Papers: Virtual Emotions: Understanding Affective Experiences in the Metavers
Development and validation of digital smartness scale: A tool to assess digital skills in professional contexts
No full textNew media literacy (NML) involves a series of crucial skills needed for living and working in the mediated and participatory society of the 21st century. Along with the emergence of new media technologies, individuals are now expected to know the socio-cultural and emotional aspects of new media beyond its technical characteristics. This paper seeks to extend the notion of digital skills by developing and measuring an additional set of abilities: the Digital Smartness (DS). DS is a set of technical and interpersonal skills for a professional practice of ICTs, based on professional identity designing and communication activities. Moreover, this article outlines the main results and methodological challenges of an ad hoc scale to measure digital smartness. The development, properties, and uses of the Digital Smartness Scale (DSS) are described. Dimensionality, reliability, and validity data are presented for two studies (pilot test and validity test) involving a total of 2.257 individuals. The psychometric properties of the scale were examined. The four-factor 34-item DSS revealed good content validity, structural validity, construct reliability, construct convergent validity and discriminant validity. Moreover, findings indicated the novelty of this skill set, thanks to low convergent and incremental validity
Networked Flow: A Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Creative Collaboration in Educational and Training Settings
No full textSupporting creative collaboration in the classroom is considered an important objective by current education research, as growing evidence suggests that this practice is linked with the quality of learning and the development of problem solving skills. Drawing on recent advances in group creativity research, social cognition and network science, we propose a theoretical framework for studying creative collaboration that integrates the concepts of group flow and social presence. Our key hypothesis is that in order for a group to enter the creative state of flow, members must be able to develop a “we-intention”, in which the actions of the individuals and those of the collective are merged (social presence). According to our model, this is a staged process, beginning with the co-construction of a shared frame within the group and culminating with the creation of a novel artefact or concept. A further assumption is that the emergence of such optimal group state is associated with structural changes in the dynamics of group interaction, which can be effectively investigated using social network analysis techniques
NETWORKED FLOW - Towards an understanding of creative networks
No full textIdentifying ‘networked flow’ as the key driver of networked creativity, this new volume in the Springer Briefs series deploys concepts from a range of sub-disciplines in psychology to suggest ways of optimizing the innovative potential of creative networks. In their analysis of how to support these networks, the contributing authors apply expertise in experimental, social, cultural and educational psychology. They show how developing a creative network requires the establishment of an optimal group experience in which individual intentions inform and guide collective goals.
The volume represents a three-fold achievement. It develops a ground-breaking new perspective on group creativity: the notion of ‘networked flow’ as a bridging concept linking the neuropsychological, psychological and social levels of the creative process. In addition, the authors set out a six-stage model that provides researchers with a methodological framework (also by referring to the social network analysis) for studying the creativity traditionally associated with interpersonal contexts. Finally, the book includes perceptive analysis of the novel possibilities opened up by second-generation internet technologies, particularly in social networking, that seem destined to develop and sustain online creativity. As a wide-ranging exposition of a new direction in theoretical psychology that is laden with exciting possibilities, this volume will inform and inspire professionals, scholars and students alike
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Mindfulness as an Opportunity to Narrow the Grey Digital Divide
No full textWith older adults living longer than ever before, more in this age demographic are seeking ways to stay engaged, happy, and healthy in the nal decades of life following retirement. In this chapter, we discuss the many ways in which older adults can bene t from learning new technologies, including enjoying more functional independence, social connection, and cognitive engagement. We also discuss the barriers that prevent older adults from learning new technologies, including physical ailment and disability, skepticism over the bene ts, and stereotype threat. Finally, we introduce the concept of Langerian mindfulness and how learning to be mindful as opposed to mindless can help older adults over these barriers
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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