TY - JOUR AU - Rubio-Arostegui, Juan Arturo AU - Pecourt, Juan AU - Rius-Ulldemolins, Joaquim PY - 2017/02/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Uses and Abuses of Creativity. Sociology of creative processes, transitions to digital and creative policies JF - Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat JA - Debats VL - 1 IS - 0 SE - SPECIAL ISSUE 2 DO - UR - https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1694 SP - AB - <p>Creativity is a notion awakening growing interest in the social<br />sciences. This attention mirrors the debate on the potential economic<br />and social development of creativity as a skill, profession or industry.<br />However, there is also rising critical interpretation of the abuse of<br />this concept, exploited to legitimize the hasty digitization of the<br />cultural field, and of the instrumentalization of culture in pursuit of<br />economic interests. This article is grounded on the contributions of<br />numerous sociologists (Bourdieu, Collins and Menger) in an attempt<br />to reconsider the conditions under which creativity develops, and<br />examine how the framework of digitalization and instrumentalization<br />is shifting (not always positively) the structure of this field, and<br />the interaction frameworks that favour the development of this<br />creation of culture.<br /><br /></p> ER -