DIGC102 Week 1 Introduction 010310

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DIGC102Week One

Tuesday March 2, 2010Dr Chris Moore

[email protected]


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Moorenet@gmail com

Introductionto Methods in Digital

Research:

Sources, Knowledge andIdentity


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Todays Lecture

summary of the subject outline

what is research?

blogging and research

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Course Structure

1hr Lecture / 2hr Lab/Seminar

100% attendance to Lectures and Labs

Student Consultation Monday andThursday by Email appointment

Students are required to fulfil the

attendance requirements, the online andclass participation requirements and submit

all assessments To Pass The Course.


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Assessments1. Information Search Assignment

2. Information Search Presentation

3. 2x Blog Report

4. Group Presentation and Dossier

5. Online Participation

6. Class participation


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Assessments1. Information Search Assignment E-waste

Friday, March 26 - Week 4 by 4pm posted to your

class blog and email notification. 15%

500 words - excludes reference list.

2. Information Search Presentation

Tuesday April 12 - Week 6 during lab/tutorial. 15%

5 minutes minimum 10 minutes maximum


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Blog Report Week 5, Friday April 2 and Week

10 Friday May 14, by 4pm. 20%

Students nominate their strongest post via email

and include provide a short justification for their

inclusion. Students will also nominate the best post

and comments from your peers. (250 words) (10%Total Each Report)


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E-wasteGroup Presentation

Presentation during Weeks 11 and 12Tuesday May 18, Tuesday May 25.

Group Research Dossier(1500 words) submitted in Week 13Tuesday June 1, by 4pm

30% (15% presentation, 15%Research Project Dossier)


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http://groups.google.com/group/digc102

Gmail andGoogle Groups
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What is Research?


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A Research Process

1. Deciding what to research: formulate and revise the

research question

2. Finding things out: looking up, collecting data, acquiringknowledge and verification (checking sources)

3. Putting it together: figuring out the story by managing,

shaping, and analysing the data

4. Presenting your findings: writing it up, re-drafting and

revisiting the earlier steps where needed.


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The

researchquestion

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Types of Sources

1. Primary

2. Secondary

3. Tertiary


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Primary Sources are those are produced

by the object of your study: the film orvideo game, the government policy

document or legal summary.

Primary sources can generated by your

own research i.e. a survey, an interview orstatistical data on an event.


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Secondary Sources - are those produced

by experts, professionals and critics.

Popular, trade and journalistic sourcesincluding blogs and other types of

publication that relates to your topic in

some way is usually considered to be asecondary source


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Tertiary sources are fully peer-reviewed,verified and referenced sources.

Tertiary sources include academic journals,

university press publications, online

academic journals, some larger commercialpresses.


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Presenting

YourFindings

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Epistemologies andTheoretical Perspectives

Epistemologies are means of understanding and

explaining theories of knowledge and ways of

knowing.

Theoretical Perspectives Positivism,Interpretivisim, Systems Theory, Critical Theory

Weerakkody, Niranjala 2008, Research methods formedia and communications, Oxford University

Press, South Melbourne.

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Methods andMethodologies

Experimental Research

Surveys

Content Analysis

Ethnography

Discourse Analysis


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Qualitative and

Quantitative

Research

Quant tat ve


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QuantitativeQuantitative


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Qualitative


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Blogging and

The ResearcherIdentity

ODonnell, Marcus, 2006, Marcus ODonnellBlogging as Pedagogic Practice Asia Pacific

Media Educator, issue No 17. Dec 2006.

[available: http://www.marcusodonnell.com/files/APMEODonnell.pdf] accessed January 27,

2010.
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Being Critical

Balanced (Fair)

Verified (Check Your Sources)

Hyperbolic (Exaggeration)

John Stewart
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E-Waste and the New Media User examiningour relationships as individuals, as a cohortand as a community of researchers and new

media users to the cycles of innovation,obsolescence and waste.

Special Topic

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Week One Blog Topic/s

What is your area of specialised knowledge or expertise?

Where is your interest most often held in politics, sport,

fandom, technical knowledge or an interest in a

particular academic discipline?

Consider your own researcher identity. What do you use

research for in your everyday Internet activities?

What is your standard practice for finding information

online how might you improve it?


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All Blog topic posts should be a

minimum of 250 words and

include examples of primary,

secondary and tertiary sources,

and be fully referenced.

Ensure to read and posts

comments on at least 3 blogsfrom peers each week.


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