MCS 2020 Lecture 4: MCS 2020 Unit 4

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 2020
• Professor: Matthew- Jim D' Elia

Document Summary

Our desire to communicate is the motivation behind information technology. It improves our ability to send messages to each other. Information sharing shared meaning community building identity forming. To become truly fluent in the new digital language, we must improve out information literacy and technological competency. Determines the nature and extent of the information needed. Accesses the needed information effectively and efficiently. Evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into the knowledge base and values system. Uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose. Understands many of the ethical, legal, socio-economic issues surrounding information and information technology. Must have a broader understanding of the technology itself. Lower quality information (gatekeepers of knowledge production being cut out) Hard to articulate hard to share. Unique to individuals and their own experience or expertise. Demonstrates how the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge contributes to knowledge production. Moving tacit knowledge to a more structured form.