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On Expertise is an important and well-executed project, combining theoretical discussions with qualitative data collections such as surveys and interviews to answer the question of whether we can change the public's attitude toward expertise and its ability to participate in discourses of expertise for the better. With cautious optimism, it enters into a crisis with a long and sordid history of a public's deep distrust and skepticism. -Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons

On Expertise is an important and well-executed project, combining theoretical discussions with qualitative data collections such as surveys and interviews to answer the question of whether we can change the public's attitude toward expertise and its ability to participate in discourses of expertise for the better. With cautious optimism, it enters into a crisis with a long and sordid history of a public's deep distrust and skepticism. -E. Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons Mehlenbacher's expansive understanding of the conceptualization, application, and reception of expertise is much needed-even essential-in the present cultural moment. -L. H. Taylor Jr., Choice

On Expertise is an important and well-executed project, combining theoretical discussions with qualitative data collections such as surveys and interviews to answer the question of whether we can change the public's attitude toward expertise, and its ability to participate in discourses of expertise, for the better. With cautious optimism, it enters into a crisis with a long and sordid history of a public's deep distrust and skepticism. -Johanna Hartelius, editor of The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness

“On Expertise is an important and well-executed project, combining theoretical discussions with qualitative data collections such as surveys and interviews to answer the question of whether we can change the public’s attitude toward expertise and its ability to participate in discourses of expertise for the better. With cautious optimism, it enters into a crisis with a long and sordid history of a public's deep distrust and skepticism.” —E. Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons “Mehlenbacher's expansive understanding of the conceptualization, application, and reception of expertise is much needed—even essential—in the present cultural moment.” —L. H. Taylor Jr., Choice

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Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher is Canada Research Chair in Science, Health, and Technology Communication in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet and coeditor of Emerging Genres in New Media Environments.

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