ABSTRACT
The world today, some theoreticians argue, is a radically changing one in which the very ways we used to understand the world are being altered. Today’s world has been labeled as “postmodern” to denote a shift to a decentered set of discourses in the information age. The Internet connects people in a global sense even as authority centers shift. Anthony Giddens (1994) describes two areas of transformation: “the extensional spread of modern institutions, universalized via globalizing processes” and at the same time “the disinterring and problematizing of tradition” (57). These shifts have brought about a “displacement and reappropriation of expertise”(58).
