Topics in Information Systems: Global Consequences of Information Technology

IS486

Half/ full unit

Half

Professor I O Angell, Room NAB 3.38
 

This course is optional for the MSc Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems

An examination of new trends in information systems - the global consequences of information technology.

An investigation into the effect of advances in information technology on underlying social structures - particularly commercial and political structures.

Lent term

Lectures

10 x 1 hour & 10 x 2 hours

Students discuss articles and present essay ideas in class.  Regular meetings are held with the course teachers to discuss essays.

• I Angell, The New Barbarian Manifesto, Kogan Page, 2000
• M Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, Blackwell 1996
• R Coase, The Firm, the Market and the Law, University of Chicago Press 1988
• W Gibson, Neuromancer, Grafton Books, 1986
• F Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976
• J Jacobs, Systems of Survival, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992
• J Kerry, The New War, Simon & Shuster, 1997
• N Nicholson, Managing the Human Animal, Texere, 2000
• K Ohmae, The Borderless World, Collins 1990
• F Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Penguin, London, 1990
• M Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (2nd ed), Collier Macmillan 1998
• A Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Signet, 1957
• R Reich, The Work of Nations, Simon & Schuster 1991
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Oxford University Press 1988

Assessment is based on 2 elements, a 700 word essay (33% marks) and a 2500 word essay (66% marks).