Affiliation:
1. Management, Aarhus University
Abstract
Abstract
The chapter expands the notion of social distribution of expertise, arguing that increasingly, it is not only the organizations and professions surrounding expertise that are socially distributed. Also the institutions that traditionally have defined and legitimized expertise (in particular, news media) have become socially distributed—that is, they have lost their monopoly on the definition and legitimization of expertise. The social distribution of expertise suggests that organizations such as universities and institutionalized professional roles such as academics have lost their monopoly on expertise because of new types of knowledge-generating organizations and professions—think tanks, financial analysts, R&D-intensive private corporations, consultants, etc.—increasingly being viewed as expertise or experts. The chapter shows that news media and media pundits have lost their monopoly on recognizing and legitimizing expertise due to new (social) media and new media professions, such as influencers. Thus, not only expertise, but also the public recognition of expertise, has become socially distributed.
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