Description: Death of Expertise : The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters, Paperback by Nichols, Tom, ISBN 0190865970, ISBN-13 9780190865979, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 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.
Tom Nichols The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: 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, among other reasons.
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. 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. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the
aftermath of Donald Trumps election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.
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Book Title: Death of Expertise : the Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Media Studies, General, Learning Styles, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Education, Psychology
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Author: Tom Nichols
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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