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4. When you use the Google search engine or Facebook you are presented
with adverts that are targeted at your interests as they have been
revealed in your recent uses of these systems.
Investigate how this is done and how these companies collect data
about you and make money from it (see, for example, Laudon and
Laudon (2013) Section 4.3).
a. Do you have any concerns about your
activities online being
monitored and mined for data, and this data being used to select
specific adverts to show you?
b. Is there any data that you may reveal as you go about your life
online that you think should never be captured and used by other
businesses?
5. Explain how a sociotechnical approach to information systems differs
from a purely technical or managerial approach.
Using the systems
model presented here show where the technical and the social
elements are found. Use an example to illustrate this.
a. If or when we adopt a sociotechnical approach for developing a
new information system to satisfy certain peoples’ information
needs, what kinds of activities would need to be undertaken by the
developers?
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