ABSTRACT
No self-respecting book about Creativity can do without a section on the impact of digital technologies on the products, processes and outcomes of all kinds of creative endeavour. This chapter will focus on a particular subset of these issues as it explores the series of research projects, writings, argument and public advocacy produced over the last twenty years, all suggesting that the spread of digital technologies among young people has brought down barriers to access; and that many young people in affluent societies now have opportunities to participate in forms of creative and cultural expression and communication. The evidence supporting this hypothesis is by no means universally accepted and a series of counter-arguments essentially focusing on the role of commercial interests has been offered as contrary interpretation of these changing trends in leisure use.
