ABSTRACT
Education systems will ignore the lesson of consumer-led, distributive, iterative and multi-sourced learning at their peril, as will broadcasters and publishers. These ‘other ways of being in the truth’ are perhaps the best hope yet that the ‘truly concrete and personal’ expression that underlies Richard Hoggart’s vision for ‘the quality of life, the kind of response, the rootedness in wisdom and maturity’ within ‘popular art’ can be achieved by a wide spectrum of creative citizens around the world, with the surprising extra innovation that such expression is itself the R&D component of a creative economy, contributing to the growth of knowledge and progress of society. Teenagers are used to teachers seeking to control, minimise and render ‘useful’ their digital literacy. The industrial organisation of workforces with strong unionisation leads to standardisation of work experience. Individuals and families can and will take more responsibility for their own knowledge needs.
