{"id":377,"date":"2015-09-28T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lepida1.fgm.it\/index.php\/2015\/09\/28\/on-the-impact-of-ict-over-the-creative-process-in-humans\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:13:22","slug":"on-the-impact-of-ict-over-the-creative-process-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/2015\/09\/28\/on-the-impact-of-ict-over-the-creative-process-in-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"On the impact of ICT over the creative process in humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">G. E. CORAZZA, S. AGNOLI<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Abstract<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In this paper&nbsp; we dwell upon the&nbsp; effect that Information&nbsp; Society at&nbsp; large, and the use of ICT technologies in particular, have&nbsp; on&nbsp; the&nbsp; ability&nbsp; of&nbsp; humans&nbsp; in&nbsp; generating&nbsp; new&nbsp; ideas&nbsp; through&nbsp; a&nbsp; creative&nbsp; thinking&nbsp; process.&nbsp; In&nbsp; order&nbsp; to&nbsp; ground&nbsp; our discussion onto scientific terms,&nbsp; we first describe&nbsp; a&nbsp; general model&nbsp; of the creative&nbsp; thinking process, the&nbsp; DIMAI model, which&nbsp; identifies&nbsp; the&nbsp; main&nbsp; mental&nbsp; states&nbsp; occurring&nbsp; in&nbsp; the&nbsp; mind&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; creative&nbsp; thinker:&nbsp; drive&nbsp; and&nbsp; focus&nbsp; definition, information&nbsp; gathering, movement from&nbsp; idea to&nbsp; idea, assessment, and implementation. We then move&nbsp; on to&nbsp; discuss the facilitators and inhibitors introduced by ICT technologies onto these five mental states, as well as on the overall process, and we show that there are numerous nuances and specificities on both sides, such as the impact of&nbsp; virtual worlds, self-authoring&nbsp; tools,&nbsp; hyper-connectivity,&nbsp; reduction&nbsp; of&nbsp; attention&nbsp; span,&nbsp; protection&nbsp; of&nbsp; intellectual&nbsp; property.&nbsp; Therefore,&nbsp; the conclusion is that there are many positive as well as negative implications, but without any doubt we&nbsp; can state that the impact&nbsp; of&nbsp; ICT&nbsp; on&nbsp; humans&nbsp; creativity&nbsp; is&nbsp; very&nbsp; significant.&nbsp; The&nbsp; future&nbsp; evolutions&nbsp; of&nbsp; technology&nbsp; are&nbsp; certain&nbsp; to&nbsp; bring&nbsp; even further implications, including the birth of the creative process for a global distributed brain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;\"><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/2012\/02\/24\/publications\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">back to Publications<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;\"><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. E. CORAZZA, S. AGNOLI Abstract In this paper&nbsp; we dwell upon the&nbsp; effect that Information&nbsp; Society at&nbsp; large, and the use of ICT technologies in particular, have&nbsp; on&nbsp; the&nbsp; ability&nbsp; of&nbsp; humans&nbsp; in&nbsp; generating&nbsp; new&nbsp; ideas&nbsp; through&nbsp; a&nbsp; creative&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.fgm.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}