Call for Book Chapters: Social media have dramatically popularized practices of evaluation, especially of cultural products and artistic expressions. The practices of “liking” and rating any shared contents such as music to blogs, film, videos, photographs to artwork and performances have been ubiquitous in today’s digital environments. As a result, creative producers are increasingly developing reputations and careers through a complex blend of online social reputation management and distribution platforms, and more longstanding forms of marketing channels and professional evaluation. In this context, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (under contract with Routledge edited by H. Cecilia Suhr) seeks to examine the newly emerging forms of evaluation, such as contests, competitions, ranking, commenting, liking, and rating, which are taking place in digital environments. In doing so, this book investigates the criteria and assessment practices tied to the evaluation of creativity and artistic works. This book further analyzes what is at stake when digital environments heighten the role of amateur and peer criticism to the level of expert critiques. While exploring potential informal learning opportunities and offering incisive critiques on the emerging norms and standards of evaluation, the essays in this book cover a wide range of artistic and creative practices. If interested in contributing to this book, please contact H. Cecilia Suhr, suhrhc@miamioh.edufor initial inquiries on your topic as well as further guidelines. This project will move very quickly. If your abstract is accepted, a full-length chapter will be requested for final consideration. Only those chapters that require minor revision will be selected.
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