This podcast features audio from Mark Pesce, the facilitator of the panel discussion, at education.au’s first seminar for 2007 - Challenging how knowledge is created. The PowerPoint which Mark used with his presentation is also avaiable from here.
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[…] Mark Pesce (whose and slides are available here) argued that the question “What is the truth?” has now become “Who do you trust?”. There is a potentially a clash of cultures between the Wikpedia model and the older encyclopedic model; has the culture of expertise, he asked, been out-evolved by distributed authority? He concluded by predicting a coming war between elites (who’ve traditionally possessed knowledge), special interests (who try to shape knowledge to their own ends), and communities (which are just becoming aware of the knowledge latent within them - and are beginning to use tools like wikis to harness that knowledge). […]
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