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INF 162W: Organizational Information Systems


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Citing Sources - Using APA

You are asked to use a standard style manual.  Helpful hints for all are located on the Research Guide for Citations. The goal is to be CONSISTENT and follow one standard form. The standard citation for a Journal article in APA format includes: Author (Last, FM. (Date). Title of Article. Journal Title, Volume #,(Issue #), Pages .

The References page should conform to the APA Style (American Psychological Association).  The latest edition of the APA's Publication Manual was released in July 2019. These links are for the 7th edition of the manual.  See all Libraries at BF 76.7 .P83 2020.

Locate an available doi here! A doi is a set of numbers (sometimes letters, too) that helps you locate specific texts or objects. Anything can have a doi, but dois are often used to identify articles.

Find out about software to make citing sources easy here.

Three Short Papers

Read the prompts carefully.  Your paper should be between 3-5 pages and be organized with the following outline:

  • Title page
  • Abstract
  • Main Body
  • References

Paper 1 - Due Feb 2 - Techno-Optimism vs. Tech's Sexism Problem

Search strategies may include permutations of the following terms that will retrieve citations to research and experiences covered in the following resources: 

                  Sexism, Harassment, Chauvinism, Bigotry, Discrimination, Social Inequality, Bias

                  AND 

                 High-tech, Computerized, 

                  Sectors, Environments, Work-Environments, Organizations

Membership organizations often track this information such as:

You will likely retrieve journal articles, conference papers/proceedings, dissertations/theses, working papers, and documents that will not all be peer reviewed but come from industry sources.

 

 

 

Paper Two - Due Feb 16 - Pipelines and Whiteness

You may find the following books, Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence by Yarden Katz (Columbia University Press, 2020);  White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall (Princeton University Press, 2021) of interest.

The following subject headings may lead you to other books:

  • White supremacy movements
  • White people - Race identity

Elements of a search strategy may include Diversity; racism; whiteness; Silicon Valley; tech industry

Example of a retrieved article may be Diversity, Disrupted: A Critique of Neoliberal Difference in Tech Organizations by Alfrey in Sociological Perspectives, 2022 - https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214221094664

Paper Three - due March 1 - Extraction, Greenwashing and Surveillance Capitalism

 

 

Term Paper - due March 18 - Culture, Fit, Work-Readiness

This 4,000 word essay (approximately 12-13 pp) should follow the same outline and allows you to investigate deeper questions. 

A search strategy may focus on the recruitment & retention of the high tech workplace or examine the cultural, ethnic, racial identities of its workers OR sense of belonging, employee well-being.  Huge set of options when we consider training, socialization, backgrounds, expectations, fear of failure, and whatever else contributes to organizational commitment, job satisfaction, work-readiness, etc.