ABSTRACTS | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Write four (4) abstracts:

each abstract should be 300 words . the four (4) nominated readings in the Reading Material and Exercises book (RME). The nominated readings for the current study session are listed below. 1. Under each of the four (4) abstracts, write a 150 word example of how each reading relates to your work experience, or how they could relate to an imaginary work situation. Students who do not have any relevant work experience may base the “experience” components on their personal life experience

2. A feature of the assignment is the requirement of strict compliance with the word limits, each component has a word count tolerance of plus 10%. see Length below. Autumn 2018

 Nominated readings

 Reading are : 2.2, Kahneman, D. and Tversky, A. (1984), ‘Choices, values, and frames’, American Psychologist, (page no:61)

 Reading 4.2, Reason, J. (1990), ‘A general view of accident causation in complex systems’, in Human Error, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Reading(page no:137)

 6.2 Beach, L.R. (1993), ‘Image theory: personal and organizational decisions’ in Klein et al (eds), Decision Making in Action: Models and Methods, Ablex, Norwood(page no 257). 

                                                                                           

Reading 8.2 Callon, M. (1987), ‘Society in the Making: the study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis’ in Bijker, W.E. et al (eds), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, The MIT Press.

Length: Total Assignment length = 4 x (300 plus 150) = 1800 words. The word limit for each individual component must not be exceeded by more than 10%. Accordingly, each abstract must be no more than 330 words followed by an experience example of no more than 165 words.