11490 Social Informatics

1. Design Thinking and Five Phases of Design Thinking

Design thinking could be defined as a form of iterative process in which the assumptions of challenge would be understood by the user. There would also be a redefinition of problems where there would be an attempt for the identification of solutions and strategies for solving the problem (Johansson?Sköldberg, Woodilla and Çetinkaya 2013).

The five stages in the process of design thinking are: Empathize, Defining of the Problem, Generation of ideas, Prototyping of the design model and Performing of tests.

IT Advancements and their Various Perspectives

• Five forms of IT advancements are – Spreading of intelligence based on the cloud infrastructure, Self-manageable devices, Impact of 5G technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IOT network (Eason 2014).
• Based on the importance of these kind of technologies, the ranking could be performed as follows – Cloud Infrastructure, AI, IoT network, Impact of 5G technology and Self-manageable devices. The ranking is based on the use of cloud based infrastructure that plays a major role for securing the high-used data within the cloud for various organizations.
• The ranking of these kinds of technologies could be described as AI, Cloud Networks, IoT networks, Self-Manageable devices and 5G technology. This ranking is based on the impact of these technologies on the lives of the people and the various sectors.
• The impact of these kinds of technologies help in transformation of the various sectors and improving the lives of the people. The use of these technologies help in bringing in efficiency of work within the sectors and automating the work processes.
• Without the use of these kinds of technologies, it would not have been useful for the fast form of development of high form of applications and softwares, which have been a boon for the people and major industries.
• The consequences of these kinds of technologies in social life is that they have they help in improving the social communication and develop a better form of life for the people.

2. Impact of Social Media

There are various forms of positive and negative impacts that have been affecting the lives of the people. The use of social media have helped in bringing the people closer from various parts of the world. The businesses would get largely benefited as they would get help for tailoring their products. The use of social media have helped in the gaining of attention of various users. They have mainly used the platform for a wide mode of communication (Hajli 2014).

3. Shaping of Professional Practice

The shaping of professional practice with the help of social media could be performed as the use of social media would help for removing the gap between personal practices of the learner and professional practices. They would be helped in removal of barriers in order to increase the level of performance. The impact of social media would also help in mitigating the barriers faced by the employees and children in dealing with various issues that would have been faced (Izadinia 2015).

4. Information Practices

The various kinds of information practices are: coordination and setting of priorities, promotion and innovating the sectors of IT, innovating the space of digital content, setting up of business environments, strengthening of existing infrastructure and emphasize the use of electronic method (Ventola 2014).

5. Use of the Tools in Improving Delivery Services

The use of these tools for the delivery of various kinds of services could be used by various organizations. Facebook Safety check is one such important tool that have been majorly used for checking the safety of the people in various aspects. These tools would also be useful for improving the delivery services based on the expectation of the people (Mergel 2013).