Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I - Britannica Blog
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Saved by 13 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-06-14
- Netklon on 2008-02-15 - Tags 2read
- Superjaberwocky on 2007-11-08 - Tags authority , blogs , web2.0
- Edventures on 2007-06-21 - Tags amateurism , gorman , web2.0
- Jonadon on 2007-06-20 - Tags no_tag
- Jennybento on 2007-06-18 - Tags LIS , toread , web , 2.0 , crank
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The life of the mind in the age of Web 2.0 suffers, in many ways, from an increase in credulity and an associated flight from expertise. Bloggers are called “citizen journalists”; alternatives to Western medicine are increasingly popular, though we can thank our stars there is no discernable “citizen surgeon” movement; millions of Americans are believers in Biblical inerrancy—the belief that every word in the Bible is both true and the literal word of God, something that, among other things, pits faith against carbon dating; and, scientific truths on such matters as medical research, accepted by all mainstream scientists, are rejected by substantial numbers of citizens and many in politics.
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an increase in credulity and an associated flight from expertise
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Human beings learn, essentially, in only two ways. They learn from experience—the oldest and earliest type of learning—and they learn from people who know more than they do.
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It is this latter way of learning that is under threat in the realm of digital resources.
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the difference between the print world of scholarly and educational publishing
and the often-anarchic world of the Internet. The
difference is in the authenticity and fixity of the former (that its creator is
reputable and it is what it says it is), the expertise that has given it
credibility, and the scholarly apparatus that makes the recorded knowledge
accessible on the one hand and the lack of authenticity, expertise, and complex
finding aids in the latter.
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a reasonable certainty that the text is what it says it is
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that its content is what was created by a named person or persons or is a good-faith translation of that original text by a named person or persons; that the authors possess verifiable credentials and demonstrable expertise; that the learner has knowledge of the date when that text was created and can, therefore, take into account any later developments or discoveries; that the learner possesses the reading skills to interact productively with a complex text; and that the text has a context—that is, its relationships with other texts are set out in the form of citations and bibliographic references.
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