Nobody’s Property

David Warfield Brown

Chapter Chapter 4 in America’s Culture of Professionalism, 2014, pp 83-105 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract America’s culture of professionalism, which emerged in the late nineteenth century and ascended in the twentieth, largely treated knowledge as a form of property secured by a necessary credential. Possession gave knowledge production a market value. Today, however, knowledge as a social construct is emerging from a variety of collaborative learning sources that go beyond what academics and professionals have secured with their peers. Without professional guidance, there is an end run around proprietary knowledge by different forms of networking unimagined only a few generations ago. David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, argues: “Individuals thinking out loud now have weight, and authority and expertise are losing some of their gravity.”1

Keywords: Social Learning; Collaborative Learning; Social Construct; Common Sense Knowledge; Proprietary Knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33715-3_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137337153

DOI: 10.1057/9781137337153_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().