CREATIVITY SUPPORT
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Supporting Everyday Creativity in Creative Communities
Study
Case study with members of a local creative community who craft their own beer. Theorized through the lens of communities of practice (Wenger, 2011).
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Research Methods & Participant Recruitment
Interviews with both professional and amateur (home brewers) beer brewers; participant observations including a professional-amateur collaboration, home-brew beer tastings at beer festivals, and home brew club meetings. I was both a participant and observer in each.
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Papers
Knearem, T., Wang, X., Wan, J., & Carroll, J. M. (2019). Crafting in a Community of Practice: Resource Sharing as Key in Supporting Creativity. In Proc. Creativity and Cognition '19 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3325480.3325487
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Knearem, T., Wang, X., & Carroll, J.M. (2019) How Professionals Support Amateurs' Creativity Within the Brewing Community. In Proc. CSCW Extended Abstracts, 2019.
References: Wenger, E. (2011). Communities of practice: A brief introduction. Retrieved from https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/11736