46 Information Studies
Critical Perspectives on Technology and the Family
Susan K. Walker
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC
As Information and Communications Technology (ICT) evolve families and the professionals who work with them are best armed with tools that enable their intentional use. This comprehensive text offers a balanced perspective of family life, member development and relationships, and professional use through contemporary research, learning activities and more.
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Suggested for: INFS 200
Humans R Social Media
Diana Daly (University of Arizona)
2021
Licence: CC BY
Social media and humans exist in a world of mutual influence, and humans play central roles in how this influence is mediated and transferred. Originally created by University of Arizona Information scholar Diana Daly, this Third Edition of the book Humans R Social Media uses plain language and features contributions by students to help readers understand how we as humans shape social media, and how social media shapes our world in turn.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and more
Suggested for: INFS 200
Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology
2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook is intended for use in undergraduate and/or graduate courses in Management Information Systems and Information Technology.
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Suggested for: INFS 200
Information Systems
Richard T. Watson
2007
Licence: CC BY
Students need to understand systems and the systems concept, and they need to understand the role of ICT in enabling systems. Students will learn the characteristics of good systems (e.g., intuitive, likable, error-resistant, fast, flexible, and the like). Knowing the characteristics of good systems will permit students to demand well designed systems and to suggest how existing systems should be changed. Students need to understand the affordances, directions, and limits of hardware, software, and networks in both personal and organizational dimensions. They also need to appreciate that, as technical capabilities change and new ones arise, more opportunities to apply ICT for efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation are afforded. They need to understand the process for developing and implementing new or improved systems and the activities of IS professionals in this process.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: INFS 200
Social Media and the Self: An Open Reader
Edited by Jefferson Pooley (Muhlenberg College)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC
Social Media & the Self is intended to serve students enrolled in media and communication courses. It is built on PubPub, which includes its own public annotation feature. The resulting marginalia is public by default, enabling not just reaction to the main text but also back-and-forth among the comments.
Format: Online
Suggested for: INFS 200
The Social Media Reader
Edited by Michael Mandiberg (College of Staten Island/CUNY)
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field.
Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O’Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few. It covers a wide-ranging topical terrain, much like the internet itself, with particular emphasis on collaboration and sharing, the politics of social media and social networking, Free Culture and copyright politics, and labor and ownership. Theorizing new models of collaboration, identity, commerce, copyright, ownership, and labor, these essays outline possibilities for cultural democracy that arise when the formerly passive audience becomes active cultural creators, while warning of the dystopian potential of new forms of surveillance and control.
Format: PDF