Are those real people? Memory and creative activism

Interactive Storytelling for Creative People

Learning to Be Creative and the Creative Memory

In this paper we discuss the interplay between learning and creativity, motivated by a control-based model. In particular we adopt control theoretic methodologies as well as complex systems and multi-agent systems abstractions, to consider a set of issues that allude to the formulation of distributed design systems able to support and/or simulate creative and learning behaviour.

We Are All Boat People: a Case Study in Internet Activism

This paper uses a detailed case study in order to exemplify some key trends and characteristics of activist uses of the Internet. It focuses on the We Are All Boat People campaign in support of asylum seekers, discussing this in relation to three main areas. First, it considers the campaign’s media strategies in the context of what Scalmer has called ‘the dilemmas of the activist’ (2002: 41). I...

Interactive Storytelling for Creative People

Are Effective Leaders Creative?

This paper explains in layperson’s terms how an agent-based model was used to investigate the widely held belief that creativity is an important component of effective leadership. Creative leadership was found to increase the mean fitness of cultural outputs across an artificial society, but the more creative the followers were, the greater the extent to which the beneficial effect of creative ...