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The notion of expertise is integral to all forms of institutional and professional practice in many domains – in education, healthcare, social welfare, law, journalism, banking, information technology, marketing, translating and interpreting services etc. It is a concept addressed by scholars across many disciplines – cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, language/communication studies, among others. There are, however, enduring problems of definition, description and measurement of expertise. Some scholars draw attention to the ongoing ‘crisis in expertise’ and others pronounce the ‘death of expertise’ in contemporary society.
More humbly, I begin with a characterisation of professional expertise very broadly to include scientific, experiential, technological, organisational, legal, ethical and communicative knowledge. This then leads me to the notion of ‘distributed expertise’, which extends beyond the individual remit and the conventional lay-expert divide. For instance, in the healthcare domain, a significant development afforded by internet-based technology is the increased level of patients’ e-health literacy and, consequently, democratisation of expertise. This amounts not only to accessing health information digitally, but also the phenomenon of patients ‘doctoring’ themselves in ‘the now of its presence’, i.e., ‘expert patients’ becoming instrumental in self-diagnosis and even self-treatment.
Additionally, ‘distributed expertise’ is also constitutive of ‘expert systems’, e.g., diagnostic and interventionist technologies as well as decision aids mediated by algorithms and templates. This is what I refer to as the technologization of expertise. I suggest that there is overreliance on ‘expert systems’ by both experts and lay persons in everyday decision making. Access to and use of ‘expert systems’ in optimal ways inevitably necessitates a reconfiguration of the very conditions and consequences of professional expertise.
Event Date: 25/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Srikant Sarangi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Keywords:
- Information technology -- Social aspects Democratization Expertise
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- Video
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MOOC
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing the full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of Chinese culture in transformation.
Key questions of the course:
(1) What are the Four Great Classical Chinese Novels? What are the stories about? Why are they so famous and influential in Chinese literature?
(2) What is special about the art of Chinese operas? What are the symbolic meanings behind the face make-up, gestures and costumes? How do the operas serve as a medium for transmitting knowledge in Chinese culture?
(3) Why did the private Confucian academies thrive in the Song dynasty? Why was the famous Donglin Academy suppressed by the state in the Ming dynasty? How were the private academies engaged in the state educational reforms in the late Qing dynasty?
(4) How did New Confucianism emerge as a movement in the 20th century? What were the aspirations of the New Confucians? How did they address modern challenges to the development of Chinese science, democracy and cosmology? Did they succeed in modernizing Confucianism?
(5) What were the traditional expectations of gender roles in China? How was gender politics heightened in the labour force in early New China? What light does the film Li Shuangshuang shed on the gender awareness of Chinese socialism?
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China Manners customs Civilization Philosophy Chinese Chinese drama Politics culture Chinese fiction Confucianism
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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A short video on self description for the general public.
上一集，我們為大家介紹了「平行描述」的促進語言發展技巧，讓小孩一面玩耍，一面吸收家長的語言輸入。今集我們會介紹另一個技巧 - 「自行描述」，家長們可以一起試一試運用這些技巧，讓孩子邊玩邊學習！
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- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Children -- Language Games
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- Video
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Tech that can decode your brain activity and reveal what you're thinking and feeling is on the horizon, says legal scholar and ethicist Nita Farahany. What will it mean for our already violated sense of privacy? In a cautionary talk, Farahany warns of a society where people are arrested for merely thinking about committing a crime (like in "Minority Report") and private interests sell our brain data -- and makes the case for a right to cognitive liberty that protects our freedom of thought and self-determination.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Computing
- Keywords:
- Privacy Thought thinking -- Data processing Technological innovations -- Social aspects
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- Video
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The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why.
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- Visual Arts
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- New Yorker (New York N.Y. : 1925) Wit humor Caricatures cartoons
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- Video
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Others
The Online King Sejong Institute currently has three types of courses. (1) Cyber Korean Courses: After enrolling for Korean classes within a set period and being approved, you can start studying. An online teacher will manage your learning and provide feedback on questions and homework. (2) Cyber Korean Culture Courses:Shall we learn about Korean culture such as K-pop, travel in Korea, and Korean food? This is a course focused on learning more about Korea through special topics. Check out interesting Korean culture! (3) Self-study Courses: This is a course for those who want to study Korean by themselves. You can always preview or review Materials that you want to learn Korean anywhere, anytime.
- Course related:
- CBS4637 Advanced Korean I
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Korean language -- Study teaching
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- Others
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This video is about the how to introduce yourself in English in 7 steps.
- Course related:
- ELC1011 Practical English for University Studies
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Self-instruction
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- Video
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Courseware
This course studies what is language and what does knowledge of a language consist of. It asks how do children learn languages and is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do languages change; is any language or dialect superior to another; and how are speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions is provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words, and sound systems. No prior training in linguistics is assumed.
- Subjects:
- English Language and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Linguistics
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- Courseware
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Welcome to the official YouTube channel of the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. English Language Centre Objectives: 1. To enhance students' communication skills so that they can pursue academic and professional excellence 2. To foster students' independent, life-long English language learning and whole-person development 3. To support the pursuit of English language excellence within the PolyU and in the wider Hong Kong community Find more about us here: https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/
- Course related:
- ELC6001 Presentation Skills for Research Students
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Education Higher -- Computer-assisted instruction English language -- Study teaching Web-based instruction
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- Video
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e-book
We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others’ behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition. It considers basic questions about moral and ethical judgment: Is there such a thing as something that is really right or really wrong independent of time, place and perspective? What is the relationship between religion and ethics? How can we reconcile self-interest and ethics? Is it ever acceptable to harm one person in order to help others? What do recent discussions in evolutionary biology or have to say about human moral systems? What is the relation between gender and ethics? The authors invite you to participate in their exploration of these and many other questions in philosophical ethics.
- Subjects:
- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Ethics Philosophy Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
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