خلاقیت دیجیتالی: موضوعات تحقیقات و چارچوب

Digital creativity is defined as the creativity manifested in all forms that are driven by digital technologies. Due to its novelty and interdisciplinary nature, the scope, perspective, and main research themes of digital creativity study are still unclear to date. Therefore, we utilized the intellectual structure technique developed by the information scientist to help clarify the scope and themes of this research domain. We analyzed 3591 relevant literatures and tentatively identified major research themes to facilitate the comprehension and study of digital creativity. The resulting framework summarizes the progress in digital creativity research and provides future research directions.

With the rapid penetration of ubiquitous communication devices, such as smartphones and sophisticated laptop computers into nearly all aspects of our everyday life, the need to understand various forms of digital creativity has gained increased attention (Jackson et al., 2012, Schmitt et al., 2012 and Zaman et al., 2010). The current definition of digital creativity is “all forms of creativity driven by digital technologies.” (Lee, 2013) In other words, digital creativity occurs when digital devices are used for various creative activities. However, the scope, perspective, and main research themes of digital creativity study are still unclear to date. Therefore, we utilized the intellectual structure technique developed by the information scientist to help clarify the scope and themes of this research domain. Digital creativity is a dynamic field of research because of its relative novelty and rapid growth. Digital creativity-related literature has accumulated over the past two decades and is comprehensive. Researching the content of this literature and presenting the results in an easy-to-understand visual structure would be helpful and informative, and would facilitate the understanding of the main research themes in this field. An intellectual structure for digital creativity study was derived from this literature analysis, which revealed the major research themes and the interrelationships among these themes. It also indicates popular, peripheral, and central importance research themes. A research framework derived from the result summarizes the progress in digital creativity research and provides future research directions. The goal of this study is to illustrate the scope and major themes of digital creativity-related studies. The ability to provide a high-level view of the research field and reveal the intellectual structure of emerging disciplines is essential for articulating the distinct fundamental concepts in digital creativity. This study conducts an original systematic literature review by utilizing the intellectual structure technique in mapping the digital creativity field. We hope to provide a source for anyone interested digital creativity research and help simulate further interest. In addition, this study also intends to be a quick reference for novice researchers to become familiar with the field of study. In this article, we apply the research methodology that has been applied successfully in analyzing other domains (Lee & Chen, 2012). The reminder of this article is structured as follows. In Section 2, the intellectual structure research methodology is presented. In Section 3, the top twenty main research themes of digital creativity research are explained. Section 4 presents the map of intellectual structure of digital creativity research. In Section 5, this paper explains the analytical results, from which a research framework of digital creativity was derived. Finally, the conclusion drawn from this study is presented in Section 6.