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Exercises
The practical part of the course
is aimed at the students getting familiar with a few of the
most relevant research methodologies within cultural studies
and the social sciences. Some exercises will span accross 2
sessions, to allow for more in-depth group-work and later plenary
discussions. Groups of 3-4 people will be assigned randomly
for each exercise so that each person gets to know most of the
other participants by the end of the course. The
exercise concrete themes will be chosen by the group each time
according to specific guidelines to get good practise in the
formulation of research questions.
This
page stores specific information about the exercises, including
the exercise guidelines, supplementary links as well as links
to student work.
METHODOLOGIES
-
Discourse Analysis (sessions 2 & 3)
- Ethnographic methods I: Storytelling (session 4)
- Qualitative studies: interviews (sessions 5 & 6)
- Ethnographic methods II: Participant Observation (sessions
7 & 8)
- Quantitative studies: questionnaires + data analysis (session
9)
SESSION
2- Discourse Analysis
- Exercise Guidelines Session 2 (doc) 
- Theoretical Summary
- A Bibliographical Guide (pdf)
- Summaries from the groups
SESSION 3- Discourse Analysis
- Exercise Guidelines Session 3 (doc)
- Information resources about Cyberpunk
- A good example of cyberpunk text analysis: "Cyberpunk
Revisited: William Gibson´s Neuromancer and the Multimedia
Revolution", by Nobuo K. Amioka
- These are links to word documents with the students´analysis
of the Gibson story: group 1,
group 2, group 3,
group 4 and group
5.
SESSION
4- Storytelling
- Exercise Guidelines Session 4 (doc)
Each group includes a link to the general summary, and links
to the individual stories, all texts are docs.
- Group 1: "Reply all"
,
all the stories here.
- Group 2: "Me and my email"
.
Gitte, Annemarie
and Louise.
- Group 3: "The Wallpaper"
,
Tina, Maggi,
and Gry.
- Group 4: "The personal computer"
,
Peter, Susanne
and Louise.
SESSION
5- Qualitative research: interview
- Exercise Guidelines Session 5 (doc)
- The interview guide (doc)
SESSION
6- Qualitative research: interview
- Exercise Guidelines Session 6 (doc)
- Results: The participating group was so small that
we made our own session without documenting it, a brief summary
will be presented in the next classroom session.
SESSION
7- Ethnographic:
Participant Observation
- Exercise Guidelines Session 7 (doc)
- Results will be discussed during the seminar in session 8.
SESSION 8- Quantitative:
questionnaires & data analysis
- Exercise Guidelines Session 8 (doc)
- Resources about quantitative research
SESSION
9- Organizing
synopsis work
-
Exercise Guidelines Session 9 (doc)
SESSIONS
10, 11 and 12- Independent
work on your synopsis
Each
group is welcome to make "appointments" for consultation
with the teacher during exercise time. I will not read finished
synopsis but offer feedback and help along the way.
