Impact of Digitisation

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

Lectures

10 hours per week

Students who are enrolled in the two year 200 point Master of Information Systems must have completed 50 points of study to enrol in this subject.

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In this subject students examine the implications of the digitization of data, information, and communications on organizations and society. Students will investigate how digitization affects individuals, organizations, and society with associated security, compliance, legal and regulatory considerations. These implications are also examined in regard to ethical questions around information privacy, accessibility, ownership, and accuracy.

Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• describe the influence of increasing digitization on organizations and society;
• develop an approach to securing a firm's digital assets;
• apply a methodology to ensure ICT assets do not expose the firm to excessive security risk;
• explain how digitization of information and the proliferation of global wired and wireless networks are enabling new relationships between firms, posing new threats, and creating new ways of working;
• explain the implications of emerging ethical concerns about information privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility;
• define what constitutes a safe digital environment.

Individual and group tasks comprising the following: a group seminar paper of 1700 words (20%) and associated seminar presentation plus led discussion (20%) due throughout semester; a 1000 word review essay (15%) due throughout semester; a 3000 word essay due in the exam period (35%); and contributions to seminar activities due throughout semester (10%).

There are no prescribed texts for this subject.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Students should develop skills in literature search and analysis, critical thinking and independent learning.