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SM6354 - Qualitative Methods in Media and Technology

Offering Academic Unit
School of Creative Media
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Course Offering Term*:
Not offering in current academic year

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

The course is structured into understanding and practice of various methodologies in understanding people and what they create, with one continually evolving digital ethnographic approach-based collaborative project for putting these methods into practice and writing into clear and empirical insights. The collaborative project makes use of interviews, qualitative coding analysis, content analysis, surveys, and other methods from class that is learned first-hand, developing into rigorous foundation for potential future work applying these methodologies to scale. Weekly readings focus on different methodologies and what type of information are provided by them, as well as their limitations and potential shortcomings. After this course, students are expected to clearly understand the practices of the qualitative methodologies as well as their limitations in use. These considerations on methods and the writing involved to demonstrate their proper application will be broadly applicable to social science research in digital ethnography and social media.


Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 100%
 
Detailed Course Information

SM6354.pdf