Culture, Communication, and Creativity

Hubert Knoblauch has studied sociology, philosophy and history in Konstanz (Germany) and Brighton (United Kingdom). He was Senior Researcher at King’s College London and Professor for Sociology of Religion at Zurich University. He is Chair for General Sociology/Theories of Modern Societies at the Technical University of Berlin and Chair of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Sociology of Culture.Mark Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, where he was founding director of the first interdisciplinary PhD Program in Cultural Studies in the USA. He is a past chair of the Section on the Sociology of Culture of the American Sociological Association, and chair of the Research Network on Culture of the European Sociological Association.René Tuma is a full-time researcher at the Chair of General Sociology and Theories of Modern Societies at the TU Berlin. He has studied sociology at the TU Berlin and at King’s College London. His research interests include sociology of knowledge, technology, visuality, and interaction as well as qualitative research methods.

• Contents: Hubert Knoblauch/Mark D. Jacobs/René Tuma: Introduction: Culture, Communication, and Creativity – Andreas Reckwitz: Creativity as Dispositif – Michael Hutter: Cultural Conditions of Creation: A Communication-Centered Approach to Reckwitz’ «Creativity Dispositif» – Rudi Laermans: Creative Labor and the Production of Culture: Toward a Sociology of Commonality – Giovanni Boccia Artieri/Laura Gemini: The Networked Amateur: Performing Arts and Participatory Culture in the Continuum Professionals–Amateurs – Anna Lisa Tota: Creative Bodies and Creative «Leib» in Everyday Life – Anika Noack: «Anybody got an idea?» Communicative Forms, Roles and Legitimations in the Communicative Genesis and Negotiation of Social Innovations – Mathias Blanc: «Creative Documentary Film»: A Cultural Perspective on a Film Genre – Thomas S. Eberle: Photographing as Creative and Communicative Action – Hubert Knoblauch: Communication Culture and Powerpoint – Nick Couldry: Towards a Sociology of Voice: Exploring Creativity’s Hidden Resources and Constraints – Andreas Hepp: Culture, Communication, and the Media: The Challenges of Mediatization Research – Joost van Loon: The Visual, the Optical and the Scopic as Modalities of Mediatization – Boris Traue: Communication Regimes and Creativity – Sabine Pfeiffer: Social Media in Organizations: Fostering Creativity and Communication - Changing Culture in the Process – Koen van Eijck/Gerbert Kraaykamp: Highbrow, Omnivore, and Voracious Cultural Consumption Patterns in the Netherlands: An Explanation of Trends between 1975 and 2005 – Tatiana Mozhaeva: Time and Space in Mass Media Discourse: The Intercultural Aspect – Nona Schulte-Römer: The Case of Berlin Gas Street Lighting: Translating Engagement into Innovation – Julia Walter-Herrmann/Corinne Büching: Creativity in Learning Scenarios – Nuno de Almeida Alves/Ana Delicado/Ana Nunes de Almeida/Diana Carvalho: The Internet and Creativity: Children as Prosumers of Online Cultural Content – Jorge Brandão Pereira/Heitor Alvelos: Stories of Chairs: Digital Media and Participation in Creative Communication – Mark D. Jacobs: Serious Eats: Community as the Key to Creativity in Wired Popular Culture.