Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts 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 and further questions what is at stake when digital environments heighten the role of amateur and peer criticism to the level of expert critiques.

H. Cecilia Suhr is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Miami University-Hamilton and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Art at Miami University, USA.

1. Introduction: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts H. Cecilia Suhr 2. Revenge Rating and Tweak Critique at Photo.net Joseph Reagle 3. Link Love and Comment Karma: Norms and Politics of Evaluation in the Fashion Blogosphere Brooke Erin Duffy 4. Who Judges the Judges: Evaluating Competition as a Technique of Evaluation in Online Game Design Forums Aaron Trammell 5. Constructing Learning Through the Creative Evaluation of Visual Arts Production Linda Vigdor 6. Evaluating and Self-Evaluation on YouTube: Designing the Self in Make-Up Tutorials Ramon Reichert 7. No Learning, No spec: Spec Work Competitions and the Spec Movement Helen Kennedy 8. Unpacking the Shifting Landscape of Music Evaluation in Indaba Music Contests H. Cecilia Suhr 9. Online Social Influence and the Evaluation of Creative Practice: A Critique of Klout Alessandro Gandini