MIS 300 Individual Assignment

For this assignment you should

1. Use the Internet or hard copy periodicals or newspapers.

2. Locate at least three and at most five news items.

3. That involve information or information systems

4. And that have business implications

5. Cite these items (please use a proper research citation format [examples below of format, not necessarily content] and

6. "Synthesize" them, telling what pattern you see in them and why and what the implications for business are and finally

7. Muse on what you think you need to know to be able to use the information you've discovered.

Put this into an email (no attachments, please) of no more than 200 words (not counting references) and send it to me.

Example.

1. Ref #1
2. Ref #2
3. Ref. #3
4. Ref. #4
5. Ref. #5

These articles all concern the implications of increased counter-terrorism surveillance of individuals in the United States.  One article focused on airplane passengers. Another looked at library records.  Three concerned blogs.  What this means is that businesses will be coming under increased surveillance, not from their competitors, but from the very body supposedly regulating them: the federal government.  It is not clear who will be ultimately responsible for all this data and who will make sure it doesn't fall into the "wrong" hands.  In order to understand the importance of this information, I'll have to learn more about information privacy laws and also about just how powerful the data storage and retrieval technology really is.

Research Citation Examples

Able, Janet.  "What Is This World Coming To?" Detroit Free Press, August 27, 2006, p. A5
Baker, Kermit.  "Phooey on Globalization".  www.goingtohellinahandbasket.org/notmyfault/blog.htm.  Accessed August 26, 2006.
Ford, Edsel III.  Personal conversation, August 25, 2006. [Ford and I belong to the same health club and we talked while using the elliptical trainers]
Windsor, Betty.  Annual New Year's Address from the Throne.  BBC London.  January 1, 2006.
Brown, Dan The DaVinci Code. New York: Random House 2004.