technology & information
read to prepare yourselves for session 23
- Kling, R. (July 01, 2000). Learning About Information Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics. The Information Society, 16, 3, 217-232.
Then look over these articles and be ready to talk about them
from the 08 October 2011 print edition of The Economist
- Beyond the PC
- The shift from personal to personalised computing
- The beauty of bite-sized software
- People are demanding to use their own gadgets in their jobs
- All sorts of organisations are borrowing ideas from consumer technology
- Smartphones are invading battlefields
- Technology will become even more personal
- Smart thinking is needed about smart gadgets’ influence
[you can also read these via UNC Libraries' e-journals]
things we'll talk about
- introduce social informatics
- how have recent developments in technology revolutionized how we interact with information?
- how have they altered the way we interact with each other? the way we do class work? the types of careers available? the jobs we want to do?
- how have they altered the way America operates? the way the world operates?
