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Creativity at Work: Who Cares? Towards an Ethics of Creativity as a Structured Practice of Care
Full text link“Creativity at work” signifies a complex and contested site of research. On the one hand, it is where we might locate the extraordinary capacity of human beings to create objects, events, and experiences that afford entertainment, delight, pleasure, insight, meaning and solace. On the other hand, it is where we witness the capitalist mode of production and the broader ideology of neoliberalism perpetuating inequalities, precariousness, bias and forms of “un-freedom” that constrain rather than enable our creativity. This capstone chapter explores further the ethical nature of this fascinating context of transformative human activity. First, the chapter introduces a novel theory of creativity – as a structured practice of care. Then, it reviews research “evidence” from across the Handbook (and elsewhere) to critically assess ways in which this radical theoretical perspective is born out by practice. Finally, the chapter offers a forward-looking discussion and two over-arching recommendations for “creativity at work”.<br/
Entrepreneurship in Music and the Goldilocks Principle: “Highway to Hell” or “Together Forever”?
No full textEntrepreneurship and creativity at work are intimately related. Scrutinized from the perspective of a cultural context such as that of music, the extent of entrepreneurship considered desirable is a matter of heated debate. According to the Goldilocks Principle there ought to be an amount of entrepreneurship in music that is … “just right!”. Common sense suggests this is somewhere between artistic autonomy and economic reality. In this chapter I’ll be following Goldilocks in the search for the fabled just right! relationship. In bringing attention to the “slow-burning crisis” that characterizes music-making as an archetypical practice of creativity at work in an increasingly marketized neoliberal society, I propose a “détournement” of entrepreneurship, whereby the way we ‘do’ music in society is defined by “creative citizenship” and the collective ideal of self-actualization through mutuality (Together Forever), rather than the market or money (Highway to Hell). <br/
Editors preface
Full text linkWelcome to this Handbook of Creativity at Work. Our aim in bringing together this interdisciplinary compilation of forward-looking and critical research-led articles has been to provide authoritative and up-to-date scholarship and debate concerning creativity at work. The volume provides a timely opportunity to re-evaluate our understanding of creativity, work, and the pivotal relationship between them. It is all too easily forgotten that the word “creativity” only appeared in common usage in the early 20th century, though, of course, there is nothing “modern” about creative activity or ability per se. Though creativity is today most readily associated with artistic, aesthetic and cultural activity – “work” in the context of the “creative industries” and the wider “creative economy” – its value in society was contingent upon science and technology, which revealed human independence as being possible , and the introduction of free-market economics, when constant innovation became inescapably necessary . Far from being a new arrival on the scene, the context of “work” has always been a place shaped and sharpened by creativity, as well as a site that determines, where, when, how, and for whom creativity emerges
Andrew Wilson, Nick Ray et Angela Trentacoste (éd.), The Economy of Roman Religion
No full textParution aux Oxford Universty Press : Andrew Wilson, Nick Ray et Angela Trentacoste (éd.), The Economy of Roman Religion, Oxford University Press, coll. « Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy », 2023, 384 p., £83. Voir la fiche sur le site de l'éditeur. This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 bc to ad 350. The connection between Ro..
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
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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