TY - JOUR
T1 - Harnessing the power of social media for creativity support
T2 - A three-pronged approach
AU - Wagner, Christian
AU - Jiang, Ling
PY - 2012/6/1
Y1 - 2012/6/1
N2 - The article reviews past approaches to creativity support, differentiating between computer centric and human centric approaches. It identifies shortcomings of past creativity support systems, to propose a new three-pronged approach for creativity support through social media. The approach suggests drawing on collective intelligence for need identification, idea generation, and idea evaluation. Focusing on innovation in business, the article demonstrates how knowledge and creativity can be extracted from social media to facilitate all three activities.
AB - The article reviews past approaches to creativity support, differentiating between computer centric and human centric approaches. It identifies shortcomings of past creativity support systems, to propose a new three-pronged approach for creativity support through social media. The approach suggests drawing on collective intelligence for need identification, idea generation, and idea evaluation. Focusing on innovation in business, the article demonstrates how knowledge and creativity can be extracted from social media to facilitate all three activities.
KW - Collective intelligence
KW - Creativity
KW - Creativity support
KW - Idea generation
KW - Innovation
KW - Social media
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M3 - RGC 62 - Review of books or of software (or similar publications/items)
SN - 2073-7904
VL - 4
SP - 174
EP - 194
JO - Knowledge Management and E-Learning
JF - Knowledge Management and E-Learning
IS - 2
ER -