Contents......Page 6
Biographical Notes......Page 8
Section One Introduction......Page 14
1 Knowledge, Communication, Reflexive Creativity and Social Change......Page 16
Section Two Knowledge and Social Change in Contemporary Societies......Page 42
2 Modern Societies as Knowledge Societies......Page 44
3 Knowledge and Societal Change: Institutional Coordination and the Evolution of Organizational Populations......Page 56
Section Three New Information Technologies and Communication, Communities and Public Sphere......Page 78
4 Mobilities, Networks and Communities......Page 80
5 Information Technology and theI nternational Public Sphere......Page 90
6 Creativity in an Orwellian Key: A Sceptic’s Guide to the Post-Sociological Imaginary......Page 110
Section Four Creativity and Communication in the Production of Knowledge......Page 126
7 Between Science and Rhetoric: A Recurrent Debate on the Role of Communication and Creativity in the Definition of Knowledge......Page 128
8 High Cognitive Complexity and the Making of Major Scientific Discoveries......Page 142
9 The Creativity of Intellectual Networks and the Struggle over Attention Space......Page 169
10 Evaluating Creative Minds: The Assessment of Originality in Peer Review......Page 179
Name Index......Page 195
Subject Index......Page 200
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