Editing David Gauntlett (section)

==Making is Connecting==
In 2008 Gauntlett proposed 'the Make and Connect Agenda', an attempt to rethink audience studies in the context of media users as producers as well as consumers of media material. This argues that there is a shift from a 'sit-back-and-be-told culture' to a 'making-and-doing culture', and that harnessing creativity in both [[Web 2.0]] and in other everyday creative activities will play a role in tackling [[climate change|environmental problems]].

These ideas are developed further in his best-known book 'Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0'.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gauntlett, David.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/682281412|title=Making is connecting : the social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0|date=2011|publisher=Polity Press|isbn=978-0-7456-5002-9|location=Cambridge, UK|oclc=682281412}}</ref>

The Second Edition of 'Making is Connecting' was published in 2018, and included additional sections on the creative process.<ref name="polity2017">Polity Press, [http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509513475 'Making is Connecting: Second Expanded Edition']</ref>