Expertise and Collaboration: Cultural Workers’ Performance on Social Media

Abstract

The idea of the ‘expert’ is often associated with people who are called upon to provide comment, analysis and critique. In science in particular, experts are the ‘voice’ in news media about issues of interest to the public (Wynne, 1992). In the arts, the experts are often critics (Bourdieu, 1996; Bennett, 2010) or cultural intermediaries (Taylor, 2013), for example those working in advertising (Nixon, 2014) or consultancy (Prince, 2014). What about experts who aren’t critics or intermediaries, i.e. the creators and artists themselves? I