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Ecologies of creativity: smartphones as a case in point

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  • Emanuele Bardone
  • Ilya Shmorgun

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The smartphone can be considered a great example of how technology provides us with information at our fingertips anytime, anywhere. However, we have been operating mostly in the dark without a clear understanding of what our mobile devices have to offer and how people arrive at creative re-use as part of a problem-solving activity. This paper is an attempt to reach a better understanding of the conditions in which creative re-use of smartphones may take place. Our main goal is to theoretically explore the role that the context of one’s activity may have in supporting creative re-use. We argue that the smartphone in itself cannot be separated from its cognitive ecology, but it is precisely the way in which it becomes permeable in the context that affords us to potentially come up with new uses and in doing so improve our ability to solve problems. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

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  • Emanuele Bardone & Ilya Shmorgun, 2013. "Ecologies of creativity: smartphones as a case in point," Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Springer;Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 12(1), pages 125-135, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:minsoc:v:12:y:2013:i:1:p:125-135
    DOI: 10.1007/s11299-013-0121-9
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