Information Systems

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  • Created on: 23-01-18 14:56
Technological determinism is ...
the belief that technology is a catalyst for social change.
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According to technological determinists, ...
technology is an autonomous force that exists outside society.
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A social determinist believes that ...
the impact of technology is dependent on people's interpretation and adoption of it.
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The anti-essentialist view states that ...
the success/failure of a technology depends on its subsequent adoption.
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A social determinist view of the printing press is that ...
it was based on earlier devices, such as woodlock printing.
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There are two general approaches to development:
hard & soft
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The soft approach to development ...
is human-centric (takes account of human factor).
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The hard approach to development ...
is technical and rational.
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The Life-Cycle model for development has six stages (in order):
feasibility study; investigation; analysis; design; implementation; review.
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When managers implement an IS they can either; use both the new and old systems in parallel or; scrap the old system. These approaches are known as:
step-by-step approach; Big-bang approach.
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A positivist approach to evaluation ...
focuses on the results of implementation (ie success or failure and why?).
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IS project management is a potential factor for the failure of an IS. This factor is responsible when ...
the budget for the IS runs out.
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Another term for 'Taylorism', which is all about standardisation and automation, is ...
scientific management.
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E-government is the use of ICTs in internal and external government functions. An example of an internal function is ...
organisational structure.
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An example of an external government function that uses ICTs is ...
its interaction with citizens and businesses.
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An administrative factor assisting the rise of e-government is ...
widespread critique of the irresponsiveness of the bureaucratic public sector.
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The phases that organisations went through when integrating ICTs into their functions are (in order) ...
automation; informatisation; transformation.
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The stages in the development of e-government are (in order) ...
information provision; interaction; transaction; integration.
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The term 'prosumption' refers to ...
the blurring of boundaries between production and consumption (eg self-checkout).
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What are the three Cs that account for the 'social' aspect of social media?
Cognition; Communication; Cooperation.
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'Slacktivism' refers to ...
online activism that gives a user the illusion of a meaningful impact, but that actually requires very little effort and that has little or no impact.
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