Books
Listed by date, most recent first:
| Creativity: Seven keys to unlock your creative self (Polity, 2022). |
| — Audiobook edition published by Tantor Media, New York (2023). |
| Making is Connecting: The social power of creativity, from craft and knitting to digital everything – Second expanded edition (Polity, 2018). |
| Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies (Peter Lang, 2015). |
| Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 (Polity, 2011). |
| — Korean translation published by Samcheolli Publishing, Seoul (2011). |
| — Italian translation (La società dei makers) published by Marsilio, Rome (2013). |
| Media Studies 2.0, and Other Battles around the Future of Media Research (Kindle, 2011). |
| Media, Gender and Identity: Second edition (Routledge, 2008). |
| Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences (Routledge, 2007). |
| Moving Experiences, Second edition: Media effects and beyond (John Libbey, 2005). |
| Web.Studies, Second edition (Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2004). |
| Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction (Routledge, 2002). |
| Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age (Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2000). |
| — Chinese translation published in the series ‘Western Journalism and Communications Classics’ by Xinhua Publishing (2003). |
| TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life (Routledge, 1999). Written with Annette Hill. |
| Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power (John Libbey, 1997). |
| Moving Experiences: Understanding Television’s Influences and Effects (John Libbey, 1995). |
Articles, reports and book chapters
Single-authored by David Gauntlett unless otherwise stated.
This list does not include lectures, talks & presentations.
| David Gauntlett & Valeria Duarte (2024), Reframing Creativity: Final Project Report, from SSHRC-funded Insight Grant 2021-24. |
| Valeria Duarte & David Gauntlett (2024), ‘Artists’ and creators’ reframed relationship with nature since the Covid-19 pandemic‘, Creativity: Theories – Research – Applications, Vol. 11, No. 1. , pp. 36-50. [https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2024-0003] |
| Mary Kay Culpepper & David Gauntlett (2024), ‘The Construction of Everyday Creative Identity’, Journal of Creativity, Vol. 34, No. 2. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100085] |
| Justine Woods, Francisco-Fernando Granados & David Gauntlett (2024), ‘Reframing, embodying, and in-betweening: A conversation about experiences of doing practice-based research and research-creation‘, Scene, Vol. 11, No. 1-2, pp. 61-76. [https://doi.org/10.1386/scene_00054_1] |
| Paola Poletto & David Gauntlett (2023), ‘Sound of Wonder‘ [score], presented as part of Knowledging Otherwise, curated by Natalie Loveless and Geoffrey Rockwell, developed as part of The Institution of Knowledge, a research project and symposium organized by the Kule Institute for Advanced Study and the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory, University of Alberta, 15-19 May 2023. Also presented as part of How Does It Feel? Dante’s Emotions Today, an exhibition at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto, 12-21 April 2023. Published by OOL – Office of Life. ISBN: 978-1-7753124-3-7. |
| Valeria Duarte & David Gauntlett (2022), ‘Adapting, surviving, discovering: Creative practitioners in the COVID-19 crisis‘, Journal of Creativity, Volume 32, Issue 2, August 2022, Article 100027. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2022.100027] |
| ‘David Gauntlett [interview]’ (2022), in Voices from the Digital Classroom: 25 Interviews about Teaching and Learning in the Face of a Global Pandemic, edited by Sandra Abegglen, Fabian Neuhaus, & Kylie Wilson, Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press. |
| Risner, I., Gauntlett, D., & Culpepper, M. K. (2022). ‘The elements of making: a social practice perspective for everyday creators‘, Creativity Studies, Volume 15, No 2, pp.590–605. [https://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2022.14489] |
| David Gauntlett and Mary Kay Culpepper (2022), ‘All parts of the same thing: Dispatches from the Creativity Everything lab‘, University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2022, Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 108-126. |
| David Gauntlett and Mary Kay Culpepper (in process), ‘“Making Must Matter Locally”: Making, Reimagined, in Toronto’. Under review. |
| Mary Kay Culpepper and David Gauntlett (2021), ‘Inviting everyday creators to make, think, and talk’, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Vol. 42, Article 100933. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100933] |
| Mary Kay Culpepper and David Gauntlett (2020), ‘From amateur to all-business: Women on the verge of craft entrepreneurship’, in Annette Naudin and Karen Patel, eds., Craft Entrepreneurship, London: Rowman and Littlefield. |
| Mary Kay Culpepper and David Gauntlett (2020), ‘Making and learning together: Where the makerspace mindset meets platforms for creativity‘, Global Studies of Childhood, volume 10, issue 3, pp. 264-274. |
| Louis-Etienne Dubois, David Gauntlett, and Lorena Escandon (2019), ‘Not child’s play: The serious innovation behind toy making’, in The Conversation, 12 December 2019. Republished by Fast Company and other outlets. |
| Henry Jenkins and David Gauntlett (2019), ‘Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0′, in Henry Jenkins, Participatory Culture: Interviews, Cambridge: Polity. |
| ‘Interview with David Gauntlett’ (2019), in Mark Dixon, Media Theory for A Level: The Essential Revision Guide, London: Routledge. |
| Social Entrepreneurs Re-Imagine Learning (2017), Billund: LEGO Foundation. |
| EU Digital DIY project output 5.4: Digital DIY Manifesto (2017), co-produced with Isabelle Risner. |
| EU Digital DIY project output 5.3: The Relationships Between Digital DIY and Social Change (2017), co-produced with Isabelle Risner. |
| EU Digital DIY project output 5.2: The Social Impact of Digital DIY (2017), co-produced with Isabelle Risner. |
| EU Digital DIY project output 5.1: Digital DIY Case Studies – videos (2016), co-produced with Isabelle Risner. |
| ‘Making things is even more vital than you think’ (2015), in John Baichtal, ed., Maker Pro, San Francisco: Maker Media. |
| ‘The internet is ancient, small steps are important, and four other theses about making things in a digital world’ (2015), in Nelson Zagalo and Pedro Branco, editors, Creativity in the Digital Age, London: Springer-Verlag. |
| David Gauntlett and Amy Twigger Holroyd (2014), ‘On making, sustainability and the importance of small steps: A conversation’, Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, vol. 1, no. 1. |
| ‘The LEGO System as a tool for thinking, creativity, and changing the world’ (2014), in Mark J. P. Wolf, ed., Lego Studies, New York: Routledge. |
| Sarah Banet-Weiser, Nancy K. Baym, Francesca Coppa, David Gauntlett, Jonathan Gray, Henry Jenkins, Adrienne Shaw (2014), ‘Participations: Dialogues on the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics — Part 1: Creativity’, The International Journal of Communication, vol. 8, pp. 1069-1088, available at http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2721/1117. |
| ‘Creativity and Digital Innovation’ (2013), in Youngs, Gillian, ed., Digital World: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights, London: Routledge. |
| Gauntlett, David and Thomsen, Bo Stjerne (2013), Cultures of Creativity, Billund: LEGO Foundation. |
| Didem Ozkul and David Gauntlett (2013), ‘Locative Media in the City: Drawing Maps and Telling Stories’, in Jason Farman, ed., The Mobile Story:Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies, New York: Routledge. |
| Awan, Fatimah, & Gauntlett, David (2013), ‘Young People’s Uses and Understandings of Online Social Networks in Their Everyday Lives’, Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, May 2013, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 111-132. DOI: 10.1177/1103308813477463. [Abstract]. |
| ‘Enabling and constraining creativity and collaboration: Some reflections after Adventure Rock’ (2013), in Thornham, Helen & Popple, Simon, eds, Content Cultures: Transformations of User Generated Content in Public Service Broadcasting, London: I.B.Tauris. |
| ‘Foreword’ (2013) to Lindgren, Simon, New Noise: A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption, New York: Peter Lang. |
| Awan, Fatimah, & Gauntlett, David (2013), ‘Remote living: Exploring online (and offline) experiences of young people living in rural areas’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (February 2013), pp. 3-23. DOI: 10.1177/1367549412457476. [Abstract]. |
| Gauntlett, David; Ackermann, Edith; Whitebread, David; Wolbers, Thomas; Weckstrom, Cecilia, and Stjerne Thomsen, Bo (2012), The Future of Learning, Billund: LEGO Learning Institute. |
| ‘Towards “publish, then filter” for academic research’, LSE Impact of the Social Sciences blog, London: London School of Economics, 10 July 2012. |
| ‘A tale of two books: An experiment in cutting out the middlepeople with Kindle self-publishing’, LSE Impact of the Social Sciences blog, London: London School of Economics, 28 May 2012. |
Several blog posts from our AHRC-funded Digital Transformations project, including:
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| ‘Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: David Gauntlett and Henry Jenkins in conversation’ (2011), published in three parts on Henry Jenkins’ blog: part one, part two, part three. |
| ‘Good and bad times for making and thinking’ (2011), in Networks, Summer 2011, Brighton: Art/Design/Media Subject Centre, The Higher Education Academy. |
| ‘Six principles for media education’ (2011), in Wardle, Jon & Fraser, Pete, eds, A Manifesto for Media Education, at http://www.manifestoformediaeducation.co.uk |
| Awan, Fatimah, & Gauntlett, David (2011), ‘Creative and visual methods in audience research’, in Nightingale, Virginia, ed., Handbook of Media Audiences, Oxford: Blackwell. |
| Gauntlett, David, & Awan, Fatimah (2011), ‘Action-based visual and creative methods in social research’, in Heywood, Ian & Sandywell, Barry, eds, Handbook of Visual Culture, Oxford: Berg. |
| Gauntlett, David; Ackermann, Edith; Whitebread, David; Wolbers, Thomas, & Weckstrom, Cecilia (2011), The Future of Play, Billund: LEGO Learning Institute. |
| ‘Social creativity is the heart of a strong and happy society’ (2010), in Britton, Tessy, ed., Hand Made: Portraits of Emergent New Community Culture, London: Blurb. |
| ‘Creativity, Participation, and Connectedness: An interview with David Gauntlett’ (2010), in Sonvilla-Weiss, Stefan, ed., Mashup Cultures, New York: Springer Wien. |
| Ackermann, Edith; Gauntlett, David; Wolbers, Thomas, & Weckstrom, Cecilia (2010), Systematic Creativity in the Digital Realm, Billund: LEGO Learning Institute. |
| ‘Media Studies 2.0: A response’ (2009), Interactions, vol. 1, no. 1. (Special launch issue discussing ‘Media Studies 2.0’). |
| Ackermann, Edith; Gauntlett, David, & Weckstrom, Cecilia (2009),Defining Systematic Creativity, Billund: LEGO Learning Institute. |
| Jackson, Lizzie; Gauntlett, David, & Steemers, Jeanette (2009),Children in Virtual Worlds – Adventure Rock users and producers study, London: BBC & University of Westminster. Available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange/westminsterone.pdf |
| Jackson, Lizzie; Gauntlett, David, & Steemers, Jeanette (2009),Virtual Worlds – An Overview and Study of BBC Children’s Adventure Rock, London: BBC & University of Westminster. Available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange/westminstertwo.pdf |
| ‘Wikipedia’ (2009), in Glen Creeber and Royston Martin, editors, Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media, Open University Press, Maidenhead. |
| ‘Media Studies 2.0′ (2009), in Glen Creeber and Royston Martin, editors, Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media, Open University Press, Maidenhead. |
| ‘Creative brainwork: Building metaphors of identity for social science research’ (2008), in Knut Lundby, editor, Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories, Peter Lang, New York. |
| ‘Neue Forschungsmethoden in der Publikumsforschung’ (2006), in Lothar Mikos, Dagmar Hoffmann, Rainer Winter, editors,Mediennutzung, Identität und Identifikationen, Juventa Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany. |
| ‘Creative and visual methods for exploring identities’ (2006) by David Gauntlett and Peter Holzwarth, Visual Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, April 2006, pp. 82-91. |
| ‘Ten Things Wrong With Media Effects Studies’ (2006) [another reproduction of this article, again revised slightly] in C.Kay Weaver and Cynthia Carter, editors, Critical Readings: Violence and the Media, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press. |
| ‘Using Creative Visual Research Methods to Understand Media Audiences’ (2005) in Medienpädagogik (Media Education), vol. 4, no. 1, special issue on visual methods in research. http://www.medienpaed.com |
| ‘Madonna’s daughters: Girl power and the empowered girl-pop breakthrough’ (2004) in Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman, editors, Madonna’s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations (1983-2003), London: Ashgate. |
| ‘Ten Things Wrong with the “Effects Model”’ [2004 version] in Media Studies: The Essential Resource, edited by Philip Rayner, Peter Wall and Stephen Kruger (2004), London: Routledge. |
| ‘The trouble with media studies’ in Media Studies: The Essential Resource, edited by Philip Rayner, Peter Wall and Stephen Kruger (2004), London: Routledge. |
| ‘Preface’ (2002) to the book Japanese Cybercultures, edited by Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland, Routledge, London & New York. Published December 2002. |
| Review of ‘Sexualities and Popular Culture’ by Carl B. Holmberg, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 32, no. 2 (April 2003). |
| ‘The worrying influence of “media effects” studies’ (2001), in Barker, Martin & Petley, Julian, eds, Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate(Second Edition), Routledge, London & New York. |
| ‘Web Studies: A User’s Guide’ (2000), in David Gauntlett, ed., Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age, Arnold and Oxford University Press, London & New York. |
| ‘The Web goes to the pictures’ (2000), in David Gauntlett, ed.,Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age, Arnold and Oxford University Press, London & New York. |
| ‘The Future: Faster, smaller, more, more, more’ (2000), in David Gauntlett, ed., Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age, Arnold and Oxford University Press, London & New York. |
| ‘Glossary’ (with David Silver) (2000), in David Gauntlett, ed., Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age, Arnold and Oxford University Press, London & New York. |
| ‘Digital Sexualities: A guide to internet resources’ (1999), inSexualities, vol. 2, no. 3, August 1999. |
| ‘Losing Sight of the Ball?: Children, Media and the Global Environment in a Video Research Project’ (1999), in Ralph, Sue; Langham Brown, Jo, and Lees, Tim, eds, Youth and the Global Media, University of Luton Press, Luton. |
| ‘Don’s Diary’ (1999), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 May 1999, p. 14. |
| ‘Ten things wrong with the “effects model”‘ (1998), in Dickinson, Roger; Harindranath, Ramaswani, & Linne, Olga, eds, Approaches to Audiences, Arnold, London. |
| ‘Moral panic and media effects’ (1998), in Jones, Derek, ed., Censorship: An International Encyclopedia, Fitzroy Dearborn, London. |
| ‘Introduction: Why no clear answers on media effects?’ (1997), in Charlton, Tony, & David, Kenneth, eds, Elusive Links: Television, Video Games, Cinema and Children’s Behaviour, Park Published Papers, London. |
| ‘Another crisis for media studies’ (1997), in In The Picture media education magazine, no. 31 (autumn 1997). |
| A Profile of Complainants and their Complaints (1995), BSC Research Working Paper No. 10, Broadcasting Standards Council, London. (A4 + 62pp). |
| ‘“Full of very different people all mixed up together”: Understanding community and environment through the classroom video project’ (1995), in Primary Teaching Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 8-13. |
| ‘Screening the evidence’ (1995), in The Times Educational Supplement, 28 April 1995, section two, p. 22. |
| ‘Calling all couch potatoes’ (1994), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 July 1994, p. 13. |