INLS 210 (078) - ICTs, Organizations and Knowledge Management
Spring 2006
Readings
Part I. Required Readings by Class Date
January 12
Coombs, Rod, Knights, David, and Willmott, Hugh C. (1992). Culture, control and competition: Towards a conceptual framework for the study of information technology in organizations. Organization Studies, 13 (1):51-72. (This paper is available electronically through the campus ejournals.)
January 17 & 19
View the interview with Anina on Nerdtv via www.pbs.org - find the show Nerdtv, select the archives, session #9, Anina.
Brown, John Sealy and Duguid, Paul (1998). Organizing knowledge. California Management Review, 4 (3, spring): 90-112. (This paper is available electronically through the campus ejournals.)
January 24 & 26
Duguid, Paul (2005). "The Art of Knowing": Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice. The Information Society, 21: 109-118. (This paper is available electronically through campus ejournals)
Evans, James and Brooks, Laurence (2005). Understanding collaboration using new technologies: A structurational perspective. The Information Society, 20: 215-220. (This paper is available electronically through campus ejournals.
Huber, George (1990). A Theory of the effects of advanced information technologies on organizational design, intelligence, and decision making. Academy of Management Review, 15 (1): 47-70. (This paper is available electronically through campus ejournals)
January 31
Kling, Rob (1999). What is Social Informatics and why does it matter? Dlib Magazine, January, Volume 5, No. 1, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/kling/01kling.html
February 7 & 9
Kraut, Robert E., Gergle, Darren, and Fussell, Susan R. (2002). The use of visual information in shared visual spaces: Informing the development of virtual co-presence. Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pages 31-40. (This paper is available electronically through the ACM Digital Library).
February 14 & 16
Pingali, Gopal and Sukaviriya, Noi (2003). Augmented collaborative spaces. Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMM Workshop on Experiential Telepresence, pages 13-20. (This paper is available electronically through the ACM Digital Library).
February 21 & 23
Sugimoto, M., Hosoi, K., and Hashizume, H. (2004). Caretta: A system for supporting face-to-face collaboration by integrating personal and shared spaces. Proceedings of CHI, pages 41-48. (This paper is available electronically through the ACM Digital Library).
Kumar, R., Novak, J., Raghavan, P. and Tomkins, A. (2004). Structure and evolution of Blogspace. Communications of the ACM, 47 (12, December): 35-39. (This paper is available electronically through the ACM Digital Library)
Nardi, Bonnie A., Schiano, Diane J., Gumbrecht, Michelle, and Swartz, Luke (2004). Why we blog. Communications of the ACM, 47 (12, December): 41-46. (This paper is available electronically through the ACM Digital Library)
February 28 & March 2
Desouza, Kevin C., Awazu, Yukika, and Wan, Yun (2006). Factors governing the consumption of explicit knowledge. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (1):36-43. (This paper is available electronically through campus ejournals).
Leonard, Dorothy and Sensiper, Sylvia (1998). The Role of tacit knowledge in group innovation. California Management Review, 4 (3, spring): 112-133. (This paper is available electronically through campus ejournals).
March 7 & 9
Kleinman, Lisa (2004). Connecting with the absent presence: Pervasive technology use and effects on community. Proceedings of CHI, pages 1037-1038. (This paper is available electronically through the ACM Digital Library)
Thong, J.Y.L., Hong, W. and Tam, K.Y. (2004). What leads to user acceptance of digital libraries? Communications of the ACM, 47 (11, November): 79-83. (This paper is available through the ACM Digital Library).
Westfall, Ralph D. (2004). Does telecommunication really increase productivity? Communications of the ACM, 47 (8, August): 93-96. (This paper is available electronically through the ACM Digital Library).
March 21 & 23
Hustad, Eli (2004). Knowledge networking in global organizations: The transfer of knowledge. Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS Conference on Computer Personnel Research, pages 55-64. (This paper is available through the ACM Digital Library).
Moeser, James (2005). State of the University Address. http://www.unc.edu/chan/speech_archive/05stateofuniv.html
March 28 & 30
Adomavicius, Gediminas and Tuzhilin, Alexander (2005). Personalization technologies: A process-oriented perspective. Communications of the ACM, 48 (10, October): 83-90. (This paper is available through the ACM Digital Library).
Tassabehji, Rana and Vakola, Maria (2005, November). Business email: The killer impact. Communications of the ACM, 48 (11): 64-70. (This paper is available through the ACM Digital Library).
April 4 & 6
Pering, T., Ballagas, R., and Want, R. (2005). Spontaneous marriages of mobile devices and interactive spaces. Communications of the ACM, 48 (9): 53-59. (This paper is available through the ACM Digital Library).
April 11 & 13
Estrin, D., Govindan, R., and Heidemann (2000). Embedding the Internet. Communications of the ACM, 43 (5, May): 38-41. (This paper is available through the ACM Digital Library).
April 18 & 20
Travica, Bob (1995). The role of information-communication technology in a new organizational design. Proceedings of the conference on organizational computing systems, pages 178-188. (This paper is available through the ACM Digital Library).
Part II. Recommended Readings to Stimulate Thinking
Brown, John Sealy and Duguid, Paul (2000). The Social Life of Information.
Dertouzos, Michael (1997). What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives. San Francisco: Harper.
Dertouzos, Michael (2001). The Unfinished Revolution: Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do for Us. San Francisco: Harper.
Kling, Rob (1996). Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, Second edition. San Diego: Academic Press.
May, Christopher (2002). The Information Society: A Sceptical View. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Rheingold, Howard (2002). Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing.
Segaller, Stephen (1999). Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. New York: TV Books.
Zuboff, Shoshana (1983). In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books.
last updated: January 10, 2006