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Creativity as survival: Crowdsourcing unexpected ways we use technology

June 7, 2022

NCSU News. North Carolina State University.

People and communities are constantly finding new uses for existing technologies – things the technology’s designers never intended, and possibly never even considered. To better understand this creative process, I’m part of a team of researchers that is collecting examples of how people are using mobile, networked technologies to accomplish........

This Northeastern professor wants to redefine what it means to be creative

April 29, 2025

Northeastern Global News. Northeastern University.

What does it mean to be creative? It’s a question with about as many answers as there are people on Earth, but Adriana de Souza e Silva wants to offer an alternative. With a new project called Mobile Networked Creativity, de Souza e Silva, a communication studies professor and director of the Center for Transformative Media at Northeastern University, ...