The Tension between Professional Control and Open Participation

This article  by Lewis 2012 explores how professions of law, medicine and academica have endured an ongoing contest from a do-it-yourself culture that challenges traditional forms of elite expertise. It is a struggle over boundaries: about the rhetorical and material delimitations of insiders and outsiders.

This incursion of the ‘ordinary person’ into the bastions of media privilege is experienced as both opportunity and threat by the industries themselves (Lister 2005)

Emerging research also suggests the possibility of a hybrid logic of adaptability and openness—an ethic of participation—emerging to resolve this tension going forward (Lewis 2012)- a trickle of empirical data is beginning to suggest a “slow philosophical shifting” towards a resolution to the professional–participatory tension.

reference
Lewis. (2012). The Tension between Professional Control and Open Participation: Journalism and its Boundaries – https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/123290/1/iCS%20-%20The%20Tension%20between%20Professional%20Control%20and%20Open%20Participation%20-%20Journalism%20and%20its%20Boundaries.pdf

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