The Authority of Experience: Assessing the Use of Information Technology in the Classroom
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0006.108
  peer-reviewed

Mack, Pamela E. and Gail Delicio
Journal of Electronic Publishing
2000

Abstract:

It is a truism to say that the Internet has made many kinds of information more easily accessible to more people, but scholars in many fields are still trying to figure out how to deal with the consequences. Not only are professionals losing their monopoly over specialized knowledge, but the Internet also allows information to be distributed more widely and allows different kinds of information to flourish. On the Internet as a whole traditional forms of scientific knowledge are not privileged over individuals' reports of their own experience. Professionals often fight back against this trend.