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15 Cards in this Set
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What is information? |
"Data is information is knowledge is data"
- Evaluated - Validated - Useful |
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What is technology? |
Knowledge, tools, techniques. Used to transform inputs into outputs. |
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When was technology first used?
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Early 19th century - extensively used following WWII. |
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What does the model of organizational IT entail? |
-Shared IT services, Human IT infrastructure, and IT components in the bottom -Shared and Standard IT Applications in the middle -Local applications at the top |
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Why aren't local applications part of the infrastructure? |
They are fast changing, so they draw from the infrastructure instead. |
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What are the IT components? |
The foundation of an organization's IT infrastructure like computers, printers, OSs, etc. |
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What is the human IT infrastructure? |
Consists of experts' knowledge, skills, experience, and standards to "bind" IT components into place services that people can understand. |
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What are Shared IT Services? |
The services that users can draw upon and share to conduct business like websites, wireless applications, firewalls, etc. |
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What are Shared and Standard IT Applications? |
Includes stable applications such as accounting, budgeting, and HR. |
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What is Social Informatics? |
The interdisciplinary study of the design, application, use and impacts of information technology. |
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What does Social Informatics center on? |
Impact of technology on people, developing new uses for technology, and applying IT in other fields. |
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What are the dimensions of informatics? |
- Technological factors - Social communication norms - Presences or absence of other tech tools - Social factors - Group communication expectations - Perceived cost and value of communication |
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What is knowledge? |
Actionable information and allows us to reduce what we need to know. |
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What does the network do for us? |
It enables knowledge. Examples include media, museums, the government, etc. |
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Information overload was caused by what? |
Filter failure. |
