The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
Nichols, Tom
Społeczeństwo informacyjne, Wiedza, Socjologia, Ekspertyza, Internet, Edukacja medialna, Antropologia społeczna
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Author
Nichols, Tom
Title
The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it
matters
Issue number
2nd ed.
Volume
1 online resource (xxiii, 309 pages)
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Object passwords
Społeczeństwo informacyjne
Wiedza
Socjologia
Ekspertyza
Internet
Edukacja medialna
Antropologia społeczna
Additional information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Death of Expertise -- 1. Experts and Citizens -- 2. How Conversation Became Exhausting -- 3. Higher Education: The Customer Is Always Right -- 4. Let Me Google That for You: How Unlimited Information Is Making Us Dumber -- 5. The "New" New Journalism, and Lots of It -- 6. When the Experts Are Wrong -- 7. The Experts, the Public, and the Pandemic -- Conclusion: Experts and Democracy.
Summary
Building on his enormously successful first edition, Tom Nichols confirms his thesis that events, such as the COVID pandemic, prove that the assault on expertise has only intensified. Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any numb
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