Reflections on 19th-Century Experience With Knowledge Diffusion
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Knowledge
- Vol. 13 (1) , 5-16
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107554709101300101
Abstract
In 1826, the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was formed in London to disseminate expert knowledge to the British working classes. It faced many of the same dilemmas as its modern counterpart about writing understandable language, stimulating audience demand, and translating knowledge into action. Its experience suggests lessons for modern efforts in knowledge utilization, particularly about involvement of potential users in diffusion and utilization and about the need for clarity of intellectual focus in organizations that serve the knowledge utilization community.Keywords
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