Typy eksperta: koegzystencja „starych” i „nowych” ekspertów we współczesnej sferze publicznej i przestrzeniach medialnych
Expert types: the coexistence of „old” and „new” experts in the contemporary public sphere and media spaces

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to show the main types of experts who dominate the contemporary public and media sphere. The subject of the analysis will be such model approaches as: directive expert and empathic expert, expert faked by the media and the modern educational system (two types), transformational expert, the so-called „change midwife”. The characteristics of individual model approaches will be accompanied by descriptions of cultural and social mechanisms that contributed to their „perpetuation” in the contemporary media space. The concept of an expert has also been confronted with such terms as: authority (substantive and moral), social trust, competence or amateur. The description of individual types of experts will be conducted within the framework of the psychological meta-discourse that dominates many spheres of contemporary media pop culture, the language of training and workshop offers inscribed in the idea of self-realization and transformation, and pseudo-specialist counseling in the media.

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