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Conclusion: Future Directions?
No full textMany ideas reach a tipping point and then they escape the person who first came up with them. When people talk about the ‘theory of evolution’, Darwin’s authoritative voice is still resonant in the concept but researchers who have followed him have taken the initial ideas he proposed and developed them, elaborated on them, changed some basic concepts and carried those ideas forward until the propositions he originally put forward have taken on a life of their own. A similar process has occurred with the idea of ‘the culture industry’, a concept originally designed to shock. It was introduced by Adorno and Horkheimer ([1944] 2002) to express their concerns about the problems of developing a commercial imperative by putting art and industry together — two seemingly incompatible things. Others such as Bernard Miege (2004) and David Hesmondhalgh (2013) picked up the idea of a culture industry and presented empirical and well-reasoned evidence to support it, at the same time modifying and critiquing the central idea in the process. In undertaking the research necessary to confirm or reject what were initially theoretical propositions, these researchers lent their work to a steady evolution of them. We make a similar but more limited claim here. The systems approach to creativity, as described more fully by Fulton and Paton in Chapter 3, owes a lot to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1988, 1997, 1999, 2014) but, as this book demonstrates, the idea is beginning to break free of its moorings
Print Journalism and the System of Creativity
No full textThis chapter is based on findings from a research project that employed Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s systems model of creativity to explore the creative process of print journalists. The research also drew on Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural production model and Donald Schön’s (1983) ideas about tacit knowledge as support theories. Using ethnographic techniques, the researcher investigated the system of print journalism in Australia by observing newsrooms, analysing documents and artefacts pertinent to print journalism, and interviewing journalists, cadet journalists, editors, subeditors and deputy editors. These participants represent members of what Csikszentmihalyi calls the field, the social group responsible for verification of creativity
Fulton Soldiers and Sailor's Club in Trenton.
No full textFulton Soldiers and Sailor's Club in Trenton in Fulon Street, Trenton, NJ. At Opswing ceremonies, 1953 third club house next to their second house
The Systems Model of Creativity
No full textThe previous chapter demonstrates the importance of a systems approach to understanding creativity and gives a brief overview of the literature. This chapter describes and analyses the systems model of creativity developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1988, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2003) and provides context for the analyses of creative systems in Part II. What is clear from the previous chapter is a gradual movement in thinking away from a focus on the individual towards confluence or systems approaches to creativity. With one or two notable exceptions, pre-twentieth-century ideas concentrate on creativity as divinely inspired, as the product of an extraordinary individual or genius or as a symptom of mental illness. These ideas were criticized in the twentieth century within the discipline of psychology, and others, as attempts were made to make creativity the subject of scientific study. Working under many of the same assumptions as those they criticized, this intensive period of research did little to alter the fundamental belief that creativity is located in the individual
Introduction
No full textCreativity. Nothing is as it seems. Or so it appears. Underneath the surface events of our lives, entwined with the beliefs that we have about the way the world works and the myths we use to prop them up, are forces at work that we may not recognize or even dare acknowledge. At the same time the choices we make as human beings in our everyday lives, and the creative decisions they entail, are not just simply imposed on us by those deep forces at play. This complex interplay of agency and structure can be explained in a number of ways. As an example, against the belief that creativity is an individually based phenomenon centred on extraordinary people are ranged a series of theories, concepts and evidence bases that serve to bring Western myths about creativity into sharp relief. This book tries to set aside the myths and often uncritically held beliefs, the things Pierre Bourdieu referred to as doxa or ‘the collective adhesion to the game that is both cause and effect of the existence of the game’ (Bourdieu 1996, p. 167) — as important as these appear to be in driving everyday creative action (Hesmondhalgh 2011, p. 20) — and attempts to provide evidence that creativity, as it occurs with
Developing and Managing a Successful Scholarly Project: Translations
No full text"Developing and Managing a Successful Scholarly Project: Translations," by Janet Poole, Kelly Y. Jeong, Christopher P. Hanscom, and Bruce Fulton, an essay from the Modern Language Association's 2022 collection Publishing and Scholarly Communication in the Humanitie
Junior Home Photograph Rose Johnson, Janet Boger, Betty Stephens
No full textThis photograph of Rose Johnson, Janet Boger, and Beth Stephens was taken at the Junior Order of United American Mechanics Home in Tiffin, Ohio in front of the Pennsylvania Cottage possibly in the 1940s. The information written on the back of the photograph is left to right, Rose Johnson, Janet Boger, Betty Stephens (Fulton). The digital photograph was submitted by Joe Buckley and donated to the library by William Henry Young
Fulton Sheen and Lawrence Harvey at Fatima
No full textBishop Fulton Sheen with author Lawrence Harvey and his daughter at Fatima.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/imri_photos/1156/thumbnail.jp
Susie and John Fulton
No full textThe author discusses the life of Susie and John Fulton and the challenges they faced in establishing the first church school and constructing the first mission ship in Fiji as Adventist missionaries
The responsiveness of black Fulton county commissioners to black concerns in Fulton county, 1989
No full textBlacks have held three of the seven positions on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners since 1979. In 1986, that number was increased to five. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not black residents of Fulton County feel that the black commissioners are more responsive to their needs than the white commis-sioners who were a majority before 1986. The significance of this study is that it will add to the existing literature on the responsiveness of black elected officials in the U.S. as a whole and the south in particular. The study will add to the ongoing debate about the role of black elected officials in the deliverability of services to their black constituents. The five black County Commissioners were inter-viewed to see how responsive they feel they have been to black citizens. A total of 100 black residents of the southern part of the county were surveyed to determine their perceptions of service delivery since blacks gained a majority on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. The major finding of this study was that 94 percent of the respondents surveyed felt that the black commissioners are more responsive to their needs. The main sources of information for this study were obtained from interviews, books, journals, newspapers and magazines
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