LEADER 03847nam 2200541 450 001 9910159008903321 005 20230118165005.0 010 $a0-19-046943-9 010 $a0-19-046942-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001018518 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4789556 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018518 100 $a20170203h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe death of expertise $ethe campaign against established knowledge and why it matters /$fTom Nichols 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 311 $a0-19-086597-0 311 $a0-19-046941-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index. 327 $tPreface --$tIntroduction: the death of expertise --$tExperts and citizens --$tHow conversation became exhausting --$tHigher education: the customer is always right --$tLet me Google that for you: how unlimited information is making us dumber --$tThe "new" new journalism, and lots of it --$tWhen the experts are wrong --$tConclusion: experts and democracy. 330 $aTechnology 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 Trump's 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. 606 $aInformation society$xPolitical aspects 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of$xPolitical aspects 606 $aKnowledge, Sociology of 606 $aExpertise$xPolitical aspects 606 $aEducation, Higher$xPolitical aspects 606 $aInternet$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aInformation society$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aKnowledge, Sociology of. 615 0$aExpertise$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aInternet$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a303.4833 700 $aNichols$b Tom$f1960-$01249513 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159008903321 996 $aThe death of expertise$92895601 997 $aUNINA