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Media Analysis of News Articles During COVID-19: Renewal, Continuity and Cultural Dimensions of Creative Action
Frontiers in psychology, v 11, p601938
16 Feb 2021
PMID: 33664688
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Abstract
Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to adapt quickly, and to reexamine interactions and responsibilities toward communities in creative ways. This paper presents a qualitative media analysis (
Altheide and Schneider, 2013
) of 50 online news articles (
Los Angeles Times and New York Times
) published between March 17th and August 6th, 2020 using the key-words “creativity” and “COVID-19.” Informed by a definition of creativity as actions that are considered both “new” and “appropriate” (
Sternberg and Lubart, 1999
), articles describing a “creative action” were kept for analysis. These articles highlight creative responses to the COVID-19 quarantine in various domains including architecture, fashion, and faith. In this paper, we discuss the themes derived during this analysis- “renewal and continuity” and “the multidimensionality of creativity” which elaborate and contextualize a perspective of socio-cultural creativity theory and propose two implications of this study. The first implication posits that creativity was an observable, cultural response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second implication offers a broader concept of how cultural resources function as dynamic constraints or “affordances” within the Five A’s model of creativity (
Glǎveanu, 2013
). Discussion of further research through the lens of socio-cultural creativity is discussed.
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- Title
- Media Analysis of News Articles During COVID-19: Renewal, Continuity and Cultural Dimensions of Creative Action
- Creators
- David Mattson - Drexel UniversityKatie Mathew - Drexel UniversityJen Katz-Buonincontro - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in psychology, v 11, p601938
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media S.A
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000623611000001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85101940713
- Other Identifier
- 991019168412804721
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