Creativity and digitalization

How is our creativity changing in the context of increasing digitalization?

Creativity and Media

This is all about the interaction between creativity and media, whether online or on television. We are interested in which understanding of creativity is conveyed and what conceptions of a creative person emerge as a result — when we perform on a talent show, is our skill seen as innate or acquired through practice? We also want to know how creative people use digital tools. Which digital tools support us at which stage of the creative process (brainstorming, presentation, etc.)? And are these tools domain-specific—do musicians use the same tools as writers? We investigate creativity online through psychological studies and using methods such as data mining and natural language processing.

Further reading:

Ceh, S. M., & Lebuda, I. (2022). A black mirror of bright ideas: Could media educate towards positive creativity?. Education Sciences, 12(6), 402. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12060402
Ceh, S. M., Christensen, A. P., Lebuda, I., & Benedek, M. (2024). #creativity: exploring lay conceptualizations of creativity with Twitter hashtags. Creativity Research Journal, 36(4), 640-655. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2214472
Ceh, S. M., Rafner, J., & Benedek, M. (2024). Creativity in digitally mediated times: How digital tools support creativity across domains. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000729
Ceh, S., Lebuda, I., Lucas, B. J., & Benedek, M. (2026). Creativity quotes: An expansive analysis of condensed wisdom. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000849
Lebuda, I., Ceh, S., & Benedek, M. (2023). Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “… Got Talent!” TV shows. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 49, 101353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101353

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Creativity and artificial intelligence

Social media is now an integral part of everyday life and is used by billions of people worldwide to share content, connect with others, and express themselves creatively. We are investigating how and where creative content is shared and which platforms have established themselves for different forms of creative expression. In doing so, we want to understand which creative domains are visible on which channels—do craftspeople post on the same platforms as musicians, and do they receive the same level of attention? At the same time, we examine how particularly creative individuals use social media: as a source of inspiration, as a stage for their work, or as a networking tool. This provides a nuanced picture of the role social media plays today in creative processes and creative communities.