A Black Mirror of Bright Ideas: Could Media Educate towards Positive Creativity?
With the media’s omnipresence, beneficial and detrimental effects on human behavior—including creativity—are being widely discussed. This essay presents potential benefits of passive and active media use for enhancing creative thinking and behavior. Based on the classic socio-cognitive theory of obs...
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| description | With the media’s omnipresence, beneficial and detrimental effects on human behavior—including creativity—are being widely discussed. This essay presents potential benefits of passive and active media use for enhancing creative thinking and behavior. Based on the classic socio-cognitive theory of observational learning and stressing the importance of creative self-beliefs, certain types of media content and activities are highlighted to demonstrate how traditional and modern media can shape positive creativity—contributing to novel and valuable behavior from both individual and social points of view. The discussion proceeds to link media influence with creative skills, creative self-beliefs, and group creativity, emphasizing the necessity of media education and systematic scientific research on the topic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5095f8dee3c041ecbafbeb3d4a46989f2023-11-23T16:23:15ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022022-06-0112640210.3390/educsci12060402A Black Mirror of Bright Ideas: Could Media Educate towards Positive Creativity?Simon Majed Ceh0Izabela Lebuda1Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, 8010 Graz, AustriaInstitute of Psychology, University of Graz, 8010 Graz, AustriaWith the media’s omnipresence, beneficial and detrimental effects on human behavior—including creativity—are being widely discussed. This essay presents potential benefits of passive and active media use for enhancing creative thinking and behavior. Based on the classic socio-cognitive theory of observational learning and stressing the importance of creative self-beliefs, certain types of media content and activities are highlighted to demonstrate how traditional and modern media can shape positive creativity—contributing to novel and valuable behavior from both individual and social points of view. The discussion proceeds to link media influence with creative skills, creative self-beliefs, and group creativity, emphasizing the necessity of media education and systematic scientific research on the topic.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/6/402positive creativitycreative self-beliefsmediainternetobservational learning |
| spellingShingle | Simon Majed Ceh Izabela Lebuda A Black Mirror of Bright Ideas: Could Media Educate towards Positive Creativity? Education Sciences positive creativity creative self-beliefs media internet observational learning |
| title | A Black Mirror of Bright Ideas: Could Media Educate towards Positive Creativity? |
| title_full | A Black Mirror of Bright Ideas: Could Media Educate towards Positive Creativity? |
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| title_short | A Black Mirror of Bright Ideas: Could Media Educate towards Positive Creativity? |
| title_sort | black mirror of bright ideas could media educate towards positive creativity |
| topic | positive creativity creative self-beliefs media internet observational learning |
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