Creativity, collaboration and new media innovation in a community context

This chapter explores the potential for personal and collective transformation through creative collaboration in new media forms. Conceptually, the chapter focuses on the notions of creativity and of collaboration, to demonstrate how these processes together result in social and cultural transformation. Creativity, and hence innovation, often builds most productively on the shards and fragments of different understandings, experiences and expertise. The chapter describes how creative collaboration, as a process of shared making, is not just about collaboration between people, but also between the patterns and symbols they create, and how these are mediated by new information and communications technologies.