ВДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ ЗМІСТУ ДИСЦИПЛІНИ «ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНА ІНФОРМАТИКА» З ВИКОРИСТАННЯМ МЕРЕЖНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ

A relevant task of informatics bachelor education is to form and develop knowledge and professional skills in the context of their future profession as "Specialist in Information Technologies." Discipline "Organizational Informatics" is a basic course for bachelors in computer science. The course combines the fundamental concepts and methods, supports interdisciplinary communication throughout the process of students’ learning. This article focuses on highlighting peculiarities of "Organizational Informatics" course for students of the first (bachelor) level of higher education in field of "Informatics *" study using open education network technologies in Drohobych State Pedagogical University named after Ivan Franko. In the article there is stated the purpose and objectives of this discipline, analyzed the content of lectures, laboratory works, practical tasks, independent students’ activity. The knowledge and skills which future professionals must master after studying "Organizational Informatics" are described.

Internet Censorship Circumvention Technology Use in Human Rights Organizations: An Exploratory Analysis

Using an organizational informatics approach, this study explores the implications of human rights organizations’ use of censorship circumvention technologies. Through qualitative analyses of data collected through in-depth interviews, the research examines the factors influencing the use of circumvention technologies and the organizational effects of their use. The outcomes include a revised model of censorship circumvention technology use as well as a new model situating human rights organizations and their audiences in bidirectional information flows. The research provides recommendations for practice as well as insight for organizational informatics and information systems security research in the areas of protective technologies, awareness, detection, and physical security.

Wireless Organizational Communication: A Framework for Communicative Informatics

As mobile communication becomes more pervasive, there is an increasing need to study the potential uses of wireless organizational communication. The difficulty in analyzing information and communication technology (ICT) in organizational communication is the unintentional split between information processes perspectives and human communication perspectives in the discussions of workplace technology. By merging two constructs, organizational informatics and organizational sensemaking, this paper develops a communicative organizational informatics (COI) framework, which provides a robust perspective on how people communicate through the uses of technology in organizational settings. This communicative informatics framework offers a powerful lens to study the meanings, understandings, uses and gratifications, and potentials of technology in organizations and how it can facilitate workplace communication. A COI analysis of a personal digital assistant (PDA), a Palm VII, with a live wireless connection to a company sales database is examined by applying a usability testing methodology.