Digital Methods Data Sprint 2016

Catalogue number	159414146Y
Credits	6
Language of the course	English
Entry requirements	being admitted to the MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture, to the Research MA Media Studies or to the University of Amsterdam International Winter Course
Time period(s)	Sem. 1 Sem. 2
Educational institute	Graduate School of Humanities
Organised by	Capacity group Media Studies
Lecturer(s)	E.K. Borra prof. dr. R.A. Rogers
Information	Programme Administration BG2 Turfdraagsterpad 15-17 kamer 0.06 020 525 4952
Is part of	Master's Media Studies: New Media and Digital Cultures
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Objectives

At the end of the course the student is able to:

• Collect and organize online data from such sites as social media platforms;
• Use digital methods software to analyze online data;
• Make informed choices of the form of presentation of the analytical outputs,e.g., a visualization;
• Use a wiki or other publishing software for the purposes of presenting work and writing report;
• Make a substantive contribution to a contemporary discourse or issue in new media (i.e., theme of the Winter School) .

Contents

The Digital Methods Data Sprint is a comprehensive data collection, analysis and interpretion workshop in the compressed form of a 5-day sprint. During the sprint students conceptualise, design and realise empirical research projects in groups. Conceptually the data sprint takes up the challenge of studying both the info-web as well as the social web with the tools that organize them and digital methods. There is a general protocol to digital methods. At the outset stock is taken of the natively digital objects that are available (links, tags, threads, etc.) and how devices such as search engines make use of them. Can the device techniques be repurposed, for example by remixing the digital objects they take as inputs? Once findings are made with online data, where to ground them? Is the baseline still the offline, or are findings to be grounded in more online data?

Registration at

For information: http://student.uva.nl/mfs; choose: A-Z; choose: Course and exam registration. Always consult the information on the Timetable.

Format

Practicum

Contacthours

Time

See the timetable of this course on https://rooster.uva.nl. Check the timetable before going to the courses, regarding possible changes.

Study materials

A reader will be provided.

Cost

For those participants following the course through the University of Amsterdam’s International Winter Courses, there is a fee. See http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/winter-courses.

Assessment

Research report, presentation

Remarks

Please bring your laptop as well as your VGA adaptor, if possible.