The Resource The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters, Tom Nichols
The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters, Tom Nichols
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- Summary
- "Thanks to technological advances and increasing levels of education, we have access to more information than ever before. Yet rather than ushering in a new era of enlightenment, the information age has helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the Internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement and distrust experts. Nichols has deeper concerns than the current rejection of expertise and learning, noting that when ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy -- or in the worst case, a combination of both. The Death of Expertise is not only an exploration of a dangerous phenomenon but also a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age" -- Book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 252 pages
- Contents
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- Conclusion: experts and democracy
- Preface
- Introduction: the death of expertise
- Experts and citizens
- How conversation became exhausting
- Higher education: the customer is always right
- Let me Google that for you: how unlimited information is making us dumber
- The "new" new journalism, and lots of it
- When the experts are wrong
- Isbn
- 9780190469412
- Label
- The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
- Title
- The death of expertise
- Title remainder
- the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
- Statement of responsibility
- Tom Nichols
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Thanks to technological advances and increasing levels of education, we have access to more information than ever before. Yet rather than ushering in a new era of enlightenment, the information age has helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the Internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement and distrust experts. Nichols has deeper concerns than the current rejection of expertise and learning, noting that when ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy -- or in the worst case, a combination of both. The Death of Expertise is not only an exploration of a dangerous phenomenon but also a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age" -- Book jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nichols, Thomas M.
- Dewey number
- 303.48/33
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HM851
- LC item number
- .N54 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Information society
- Knowledge, Theory of
- Knowledge, Sociology of
- Expertise
- Education, Higher
- Internet
- Label
- The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters, Tom Nichols
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index
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- volume
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- Contents
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- Conclusion: experts and democracy
- Preface
- Introduction: the death of expertise
- Experts and citizens
- How conversation became exhausting
- Higher education: the customer is always right
- Let me Google that for you: how unlimited information is making us dumber
- The "new" new journalism, and lots of it
- When the experts are wrong
- Control code
- 965120125
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 252 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190469412
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016037219
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- Label
- The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters, Tom Nichols
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
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- rdacontent.
- Contents
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- Conclusion: experts and democracy
- Preface
- Introduction: the death of expertise
- Experts and citizens
- How conversation became exhausting
- Higher education: the customer is always right
- Let me Google that for you: how unlimited information is making us dumber
- The "new" new journalism, and lots of it
- When the experts are wrong
- Control code
- 965120125
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 252 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190469412
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016037219
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
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