Digital & Media Inputs
category
Digital and media inputs encompass the full range of digital content forms — podcasts, online lectures, documentary film, interactive media, video essays, social media curation, online communities, digital archives, and the emerging forms of human cultural expression that digital platforms have enabled — as potential creative input sources whose quality, diversity, and depth of engagement determine whether they contribute to or detract from the creative mind's input diversity.
Role
Digital media is the most democratically accessible creative input in human history and the most structurally biased toward the familiar, the popular, and the recently produced — with the algorithmic recommendation systems of every major digital platform systematically narrowing input diversity in the name of engagement optimization, producing the creative sterilization of filter-bubble effects at civilizational scale. Digital literacy for creative purposes means using digital platforms as tools for accessing diverse inputs rather than as the default editors of what one's mind is exposed to.
Subtopics
- Documentary Film Documentary film as creative input provides a uniquely rich combination of visual, narrative, human,…
- Podcasts & Lectures Podcasts and online lectures as creative inputs provide unprecedented access to the thinking of spec…
- Social Media Curation Social media curation for creative input involves the deliberate construction of one's social media …
- Online Communities Online communities as creative inputs provide access to the practitioner knowledge, creative output,…
- Video Essays Video essays as creative inputs combine the argumentative structure of the written essay with the vi…
- Digital Archives Digital archives as creative inputs provide unprecedented access to primary historical sources — dig…
- Open Courseware Open courseware — the freely available course materials from universities (MIT OpenCourseWare, Cours…
- Interactive Media Interactive media as creative inputs — video games, interactive narratives, simulation environments,…
- Data Visualization Data visualization as creative input provides access to the intelligence embedded in large datasets …
- Algorithm Awareness Algorithm awareness for creative input management involves the explicit understanding of how recomme…