We typically look at the internet as one vast collection of knowledge which search engines work endlessly to plough through on our behalf, so that we can look out on the field and find the ripe strawberry amongst the dead ones. But I have found, time and time again, that even within the internet a divide exists. This divide is clearly not digital, but it is one of access to, and participation in, knowledge communities.
In my Everyday Health post this week I argue for centralising the conversation and debate on thyroid disease. To find out what I'm talking about, and to share your opinions, click on the link below.
Read it Now: The Knowledge Divide - Life with a Headless Metabolism: Thyroid Disease - Everyday Health Blogs
'When community leaders are spending time answering the same questions over and over again, and when individuals post the same arguments and the same questions and the same criticisms under the same forum headings while the older debates, three steps ahead, get shuffled into the archive, we don't get any further than this stage one of questions and shouting and 'what do you think?' and 'let's hear your opinion, shall we?'. '
