Making is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity, from DIY and Knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0

摘要

In this wide-ranging book, David Gauntlett, a Professor at the University of Westminster's Communication and Media Research Institute, discusses the thorny topic of creativity, a word which he admits may be overused, but which he also says (p. 16) is something we do quite a lot. To my mind, to be human is to be creative. To an extent, within the circumstances with which life presents us, we create our own lives and our very identities. When I was a child, people seemed to make things more often than they do now. My mother sewed and embroidered; my grandmother knitted and crocheted; my grandfather, mother, and uncle gardened.