Universität Wien

400020 SE Content Analysis: Manual and Automated Approaches (2018W)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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Details

max. 15 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
8.10., 22.10., 5.11., 19.11., 3.12., 17.12. and 14.01.

Location: Seminar room 1/05, Rathausstraße 19/1/9 (first floor, door 9), Hochparterre, 1010 Wien


Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The seminar offers an in-depth introduction to quantitative content analysis application and various statistical and computational approach of text-as-data for social science research. We first briefly review traditional, manual content analysis techniques, focusing its application as an interpretive device for social science-type inferences, and various issues arise from such applications (e.g., codebook development, coder training, dictionary development, software handling, and reliability assessments). We later then shift our focus to recent developments in automated, computer-assisted content analysis of digital material and advanced topics in text-as-data approaches, such as (un)supervised learning and topic models. It discusses the application of these approaches to different types of materials, including traditional newspapers, social media, party manifestos and many more. The goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of the literature while developing an understanding of what is possible. Students will learn about tools for analyzing texts quantitatively and intuition for why the tools are useful. As a final assignment, students will write a research proposal, ideally linked to their PhD project, focusing on methodological aspects and data collection instruments.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

A number of rules apply to receive a final grade and thus pass the seminar.

• Participation is obligatory. If students cannot participate for a good reason, they are required to notify the lecturer before the class.

• Students are strongly encouraged to actively participate in discussions of the literature and other class discussions and in the exercises. (This requires reading the literature!)

• Students only present original pieces of work. In case students wants to extend their existing work, please consult to the lecturer well before the deadline of the assignment.

• Students provide all assignments, thus they submit a final research proposal, a peer review memo and a response memo.

The final grade consists of two distinct grades: Research proposal and response memo – 80% of final grade; Peer review – 20% of final grade.

Individual grades may be adjusted for participation in class.

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 01.10.2018 09:48