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MIS40650 – Emerging Modes of Organising Work and their Implications
This session explored the concept of privacy and its implications in modern IT based social culture. Introna’s article summarizes the various theoretical notions of privacy and the current debate about privacy in academic circles. Introna – Why we need privacy … Continue reading
MIS40650 – Big Data, Analytics, and Evidence-based Management
This session covered the connections between Big Data, Analytics and Evidence Based paradigm. Goldenberg’s article on evidence based approach in medicine was discussed. In particular the debate was around the notion articulated in the paper that the appeal to the … Continue reading
MIS40650 – Trust in Global Networks of Innovation
This session covered the issue of trust which is now becoming more important due to the advent of Virtual organisations.The concept of virtual organisations have been discussed in Introna’s article but to say that the concept has been articulated or … Continue reading
Book Review – The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang 5 of 5 stars This book is an eye opener and an attempt to bring to light the sordid and neglected event from WW II in which the whole city of Nanking was brutally … Continue reading
You start dying slowly – Pablo Neruda
You start dying slowly If you do not travel, If you do not read, If you do not listen to the sounds of life, If you do not appreciate yourself. You start dying slowly When you kill your self-esteem; When … Continue reading
The latest use for drones: spotting exam cheats – ScienceAlert
The latest use for drones: spotting exam cheats – ScienceAlert.
"Those Irish are a disgrace to mankind!"
– political cartoon from a German newspaper after marriage equality referendum
MIS40650 – ICT and Knowledge Working in Practice
This session continued from the last session’s discourse on McDermott’s six characteristics of knowledge. There was a broad agreement with concepts like knowing is a human act, that knowledge is a residue of thinking and that knowledge belongs to the … Continue reading
MIS40650 – Rethinking Knowledge and its ‘Management’
The session started with a discourse on Dreyfus’s five stage phenomenological model of skill acquisition. The argument given by Dreyfus is that expertise in general cannot be captured in a rule-based expert systems. Dreyfus & Dreyfus Dreyfus – Expertise in … Continue reading
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