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Facebook as a Tool for Artistic Collaboration

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Since its foundation in 2004, Facebook has become a major force in social networking, claiming to give people“…the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” How can these tools be used by artists to connect and share with collaborators? Can Facebook be used to aid creativity, as a collaborative artistic tool or environment? Based on a practical performance-based research project ‘Feedback’, this chapter focuses on the use of Facebook as a tool for creative collaboration and explores a number of possible models of artistic collaboration using the online social network.

This chapter is an updated and extended version of the following paper, published here with kind permission of the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) and of EVA London Conferences: S. Smith, “The creative uses of Facebook as a tool for artistic collaboration.” In A. Seal, S. Keene, and J. P. Bowen (eds.). EVA London 2009 Conference Proceedings. Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), British Computer Society, 2009. http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2009 (accessed 26 May 2013).

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    Suzanne Keene

  3. School of Computing & School of Music, University of Leeds, Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM), Leeds, United Kingdom

    Kia Ng

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Smith, S. (2013). Facebook as a Tool for Artistic Collaboration. In: Bowen, J., Keene, S., Ng, K. (eds) Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5406-8_16

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