The Write Tool for the Job?: How Digital Creativity Support Tools Can Also Constrain Creativity

Michael Mose Biskjaer; Peter Dalsgaard

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How Digital Creativity Support Tools Can Also Constrain Creativity

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Michael Mose Biskjaer

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Pages:: 57–76

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004707238_005

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Abstract

Digital tools are increasingly prevalent in creative processes. While much has been said about how this can enable new ways of thinking and creating, it is also the case that these tools can constrain creativity. In this chapter, we employ Jon Elster’s constraint typology of intrinsic, imposed, and self-imposed constraints to analyze and discuss how such tools, broadly referred to as creativity-support tools (CSTs), can both enable and constrain creativity. We exemplify this through an analysis of what is arguably the most widely used CST, namely the word processor. On this basis, we discuss how the role and nature of digital tools influence our understanding of creative agency and the need for an enhanced tool literacy as CSTs play an ever-larger role in human creativity.

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Constraints in Creativity

Series: Advances in Creativity and Giftedness, Volume: 13

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004707238

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 05 Aug 2024

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