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Presentation given by Tommaso Venturini, professeur at Sciences Po Paris and research coordinator of the médialab Sciences Po. During a workshop being held in Paris with the researchers of open university.
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Who are the
experts ?
What’s an
expert ?
Simon Schaffer
… It is not that we don’t trust anybody, it is that
we don’t know who to trust. We are surrounded
by experts …
… This is not a period when there has been a
crisis of expertise or a loss of deference. On the
contrary you can argue that people defer to an
unprecedentedly large number of experts …
How To Think About Science – CBC Radio
… If we had better, more accurate more effective
models of how expertise and trust work in our
culture (and above all how trust and expertise are
distributed with the sciences and with
technology), I think that this would be a crucially
progressive move in our politics as well …
How To Think About Science – CBC Radio
Simon Schaffer
digital traces of expertise
Visibility
Position
Activity
Influence
Vis
ibili
ty
Position
Connectivity (degree)
Connectivity (accessibility)
Centrality (betweeness)
Centrality (closeness)
Act
ivit
y
What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, and Sue Moon19th International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, April 26-30, 2010
Influence
Expert of what? and where?
• Web (hyperlinks)
• Science (references)
• Media (mention)
• Social networks (strong/weak ties)