The Age of Participatory Knowledge

This is the finest phase in human history for the enablement of the individual cognitive self in the larger public domain. Participation in debates—thanks to technology—has been greatly democratised, and the elite’s monopoly over terms and narratives is now fairly undermined, and for good. True, the weakening of normative knowledge disciplining by traditional custodians has made platforms noisy and chaotic, but this reflects the failure of our systemic epistemology, which has yet to provide a common ground for respectful cognitive exchanges—serving both the collective good and individual well-being. Our age demands greater democratic depth and coherence in the epistemological framework.

Niraj Kumar Jha