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400019 SE SE Methods for Doctoral Candidates (2016S)

Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden

Continuous assessment of course work

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 15 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

DI 28.06.2016 9:00 - 17:00
Ort: Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Währingerstraße 29, Raum 7.03, 7. Stock, 1090 Wien

MI 29.06.2016 9:00 - 18:00
Ort: Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Währingerstraße 29, Raum 7.03, 7. Stock, 1090 Wien

DO 30.06.2016 9:00 - 17:00
Ort: Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Währingerstraße 29, Raum 7.03, 7. Stock, 1090 Wien

FR 01.07.2016 9:00 - 17:00
Ort: Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, Seminarraum STS, Universitätsstraße 7, Stiege II, 6. Stock,1010 Wien

SA 02.07.2016 9:00 - 15:00
Ort: Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Währingerstraße 29, Raum 7.03, 7. Stock, 1090 Wien


Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

General objective of the course:
To introduce participants to contemporary approaches and methods associated with qualitative research of networked or digital culture; to provide a conceptual framework for building contextual ethics into qualitative research methods; to practice innovative techniques for analyzing visual, text, and multimedia material associated with Web 2.0 or social media communication environments.

Digital contexts can be considered most broadly as social contexts in which digital technologies are implicated or present as mediating factors in social interaction. In such contexts, the material, the technical, and the social overlap and interweave in flows of mediated, global social networks, which makes it difficult to identify research objects or find straightforward means of analyzing social interactions and cultural meanings. This course addresses the centrality of methodological decision-making as a part of ethically grounded, context-sensitive research conduct. It reviews various epistemological approaches to consider ways that traditional qualitative methods might be more flexibly and creatively adapted to grapple with the natural complexity of digital culture contexts.

In addition to having conceptual discussions, participants will engage in a series of analytical exercises to explore the general practices of mixing methods. These exercises are designed to develop a flexible approach, in appreciation of the fact that one’s lens and methods can shift over the course of a project as one delves more deeply into the data or as the research questions become more specified. Participants will discuss the goals of reflexivity in this process and the power of flexible adaptation in developing richer understandings of the entangled, networked characteristics of digital culture.

Assessment and permitted materials

Course combines lecture and workshop. Workshop exercises will draw on data/materials provided by the instructor rather than their own data, to provide intensive immersion in various methods for analyzing materials already collected. Participants will be expected to actively participate and will likely be asked to present the results of their independent or small group work to the larger group for feedback and discussion.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list


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