SCOT

-technology is social constructed

-technology from its place in society

looking at problems and solutions for different social groups, the seamless web

Working and non-working artifacts

Rogers – Diffusion of Innovations

-adoption, spread of technology

-change agents – accelerates change

-opinion leaders – others value their opinion

population

1. Innovation

2. Communication through channels

3. Over time

4. Social systems

two technologies combining together, flatness, convergence

Digital divides

1.  1   Gender 2. Race 3 socioeconomic status 4. Access 5. Geography

men see computer as a machine

Who uses ICTs, nature and intensity of use

Technological Determinism

-technology shapes society

- Strong vs. weak

strong –tech sufficient

-weak – one factor among many

prime factor, reducing something that is complex to one thing

identification of technology with tools and machines

treating something that is abstract as concrete, thingify

-Technological autonomy –

- Technological imperative – 

-Tech is neither good, nor bad, nor neutral—

Carr – IT management

1.     Be a follower, not a leader

2.     Spend less and more wisely

3.     Focus on vulnerabilities, not opportunities

business IT

-3 categories of business IT 1. Network – Interactions without parameters 2. Fuction – execution of tasks 4. Enterprise – business processes

-PDCA cycle – plan do check act

Values – enduring beliefs

Ethics – application of values

Information Professional Values

1.     Intellectual property rights

2.     Intellectual freedom

3.     Professional neutrality

4.     Equity of access

5.     Preservation of the cultural record

6.     Privacy/confidentiality

Network Neutrality

-not slowing down access to certain websites

 -2010 Law - No unreasonable discrimination, no blocking, transparency

Copyright

-the right to copy, ownership of material

-Protected –

-NOT protected –

-SOPA – 

Geocentric vs. Egocentric

geo – landmarks

-ego – yourself

Cognitive authority –

Long tail model –

Wayfinding – 

Noosphere –

Productivity Paradox –

Elements of socio-technical system

1.     People

2.     Software

3.     Hardware

4.     Techniques and processes

5.     Structures 

6.     Support resources

1. Hypertext linking 2. WWW 3. Personal computer

Utopia is ideal, dystopia is opposite, optimistic vs. pessimistic

Luddite – 

Wiki –

Open source – 

Open access –

 – top down –

Bottom up –

Pull info –

Rss – 

HCI –

Nardi – three dimensions of connection 

Taxonomy – 

Folksonomy – 

Disinformation – 

Misinformation – 

d- on purpose

m- by accident

-both are wrong information

Data, information, knowledge

-         Data – facts, symbols

-         Information – processed data

-         Knowledge – information in action

Mooers’ – 

Moore’s – 

Metcalfe’s –

Bate’s searching – 

Futurology – 

1.     Machines make their own decisions

2.     Human’s control machines but who makes the decisions?

 Joy –