Master - Media and Technology Management: 'Seminar I'
'Readings on Management in the Sharing Economy'
(WS '18/'19)

C. Loebbecke

2 SWS, 6 CP

Thursdays, 5:45 pm - 9:00 pm  in HS XXIII (WiSo-Building)

Start: Oct. 18, '18

Held in English

Mandatory Pre-Assignment due Oct. 15, '18, 11:00 am via eMail

Overview

We will read and discuss at least two major pieces on different aspects of the sharing economy. Focus is on Rifkin's "Sharing Economy", and Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody". We will complement our viewpoints with parts of Ash's "Free Speech" (see the literature list below). The idea is to understand and argue for and against the respective authors' main lines of thought - and then apply them to various parts of media and technology management.  As Pre-Assignment, we will all have read at least the overview chapters from Rifkin and Shirky. Really getting their messages brings us to crucial insights and lines of argument. Later readings & assignments will build on those the Pre-Assignment. In addition, the course will briefly introduce the basics of academic writing and thus somehow prepare for a master thesis in MTM.

 

Dates and Location (max. 5 dates)

Oct. 18 (mandatory!), Nov. 08; Nov. 22, Nov. 29 - all '18 and Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 - both '19 in HS XXIII.

Students MUST NOT also take 'MTM Selected Issues ... Sharing Economy' with Prof. Loebbecke during the WS 18/19.

 

Literature

You can get the books online any time ... and we linked the chapters for the Pre-Assignment. Plus, you can get a lot of reviews, presentations, videos and the like for each of them …

 

Pre-Assignment - due Oct. 15, '18, 11:00 am via eMail

Task

Personal Information

Have your name, Matr. Number, sMail address and study program, and begin of program (1st master semester) on top of the first page in each assignment file. Then continue typing, no cover sheets please.

Font, Spacing, & Writing Style

eMail format

From your sMail account, please send ONE eMail with THREE non-protected word files to claudia.loebbecke <at> uni-koeln.de AND to denis.niederle <at> uni-koeln.de.
eMail subject line: Issues-I-Lastname (lastname only, no accent etc!)
File names:

Do not forget the hyphens, do not include spaces or anything else ('Umlaute', Marks/Accents, etc) in the filenames - avoid them in your name!

 

Course Grading

All grading elements have to be passed in order to pass the course.
"Alle Prüfungselemente müssen mindestens bestanden sein."

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