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The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters / Tom Nichols.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nichols, Thomas M., 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society--Political aspects.
- Information society.
- Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Expertise--Political aspects.
- Expertise.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects.
- Education, Higher.
- Internet--Political aspects.
- Internet.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 252 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred-ranging from easy access to Internet search engines to a customer satisfaction model within higher education.
- Contents:
- 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" journalism and lots of it
- When the experts are wrong
- Conclusion: experts and democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190469412
- 0190469412
- OCLC:
- 965120125
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