Paradigms of creation processes in digital media: a cartography

Abstract

What are the foundational elements (theoretical principles and concepts) and characteristics of the inventive thinking realized in digital media? This article explores creation processes in networks. More specifically, it investigates how recent changes in digital media have influenced procedures and methods of creation and made possible the emergence of creative processes in networks and in a permanent state of fluctuation. The guiding objective of this article is to understand the characteristics of network creative processes as well as the movements of thought that compose the journey of production. The article is structured in three sections. First, we present the principles and fundaments which ground the research. Then, we propose a reflection on the paradigmatic models which define the creative processes in terms of their objectives, as well as their nature and the perspective of their questionings. The third part is dedicated to explore the digitally-mediated creative processes.