Title:
The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters / Tom Nichols.
ISBN:
9780190469412
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Physical Description:
xv, 252 pages ; 22 cm
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.
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn965120125
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