Hiesun Cecilia Suhr - Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts

This book makes an important, useful, and well-timed contribution to the digital humanities, as a forerunner in the emerging area of digital evaluation.

Owen Gallagher, National College of Art and Design, Ireland

Social media have dramatically popularized practices of evaluation, especially of cultural products and artistic expressions. The practices of liking and rating any shared content such as music, blogs, film, videos, photographs, artwork, and performances are ubiquitous in todays digital environments. As a result, creative producers are increasingly developing reputations and careers through a complex blend of online social reputation management and distribution platforms and more long-standing forms of marketing channels and professional evaluation. In this context, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts seeks to examine the newly emerging forms of evaluation, such as contests, competitions, ranking, commenting, liking, and rating, which are taking place in digital environments. In doing so, this book investigates the criteria and assessment practices tied to the evaluation of creativity and artistic works and further questions what is at stake when digital environments heighten the role of amateur and peer criticism to the level of expert critiques. While exploring potential informal learning opportunities and offering incisive critiques on the emerging norms and standards of evaluation, the essays in this book cover a wide range of artistic and creative practices.

Hiesun Cecilia Suhr is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Miami UniversityHamilton and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Art at Miami UniversityOxford, OH.

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

1 Cyberpop
Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture
Sidney Eve Matrix

2 The Internet in China
Cyberspace and Civil Society
Zixue Tai

3 Racing Cyberculture
Minoritarian Art and Cultural Politics on the Internet
Christopher L. McGahan

4 Decoding Liberation
The Promise of Free and Open Source Software
Samir Chopra and Scott D. Dexter

6 Virtual English
Queer Internets and Digital Creolization
Jillana B. Enteen

8 Creating Second Lives
Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual
Edited by Astrid Ensslin and Eben Muse

10 Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games
Analyzing Words, Design, and Play
Christopher A. Paul

12 Mobile Media Practices, Presence and Politics
The Challenge of Being Seamlessly Mobile
Edited by Kathleen M. Cumiskey and Larissa Hjorth

13 The Public Space of Social Media
Connected Cultures of the Network Society
Thrse F. Tierney

14 Researching Virtual Worlds
Methodologies for Studying Emergent Practices
Edited by Ursula Plesner and Louise Phillips

16 Social Media, Social Genres
Making Sense of the Ordinary
Stine Lomborg

17 The Culture of Digital Fighting Games
Performances and Practice
Todd Harper

20 Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture
Location and Latin American Net Art
Claire Taylor