Undergraduate Course: Researching with media: ordinary, popular and indigenous people's knowledges (GEGR10113)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Geography |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Building on a prior foundation in qualitative methods in geography, this course aims to provide students with an applied understanding of the principles and practices of participatory methodologies and ethnomethodology. Students in the class will explore a different topic each year based in their analysis of four different sets of qualitative data. Drawing upon a range of techniques and approaches, students will consider the ways that indigenous peoples and popular knowledges have been used in geographical research. The course will also introduce the foundations of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis as an approach for studying internet-based interactions and videos from Youtube. The course will emphasise the value of careful and critical description of the perspectives of the people they are studying. Much of the learning on the course will take place through groupwork in lab sessions. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a detailed, integrated understanding of the theoretical, practical and ethical issues of using media and an understanding of how this field has developed
2. Be comfortable with a range of techniques and approaches related to using media for participatory research and ethnomethodology, some of which are relatively specialised
3. Critically consider the appropriateness of various qualitative analysis techniques for different sets of questions, problems and contexts
4. Understand and have strategies for working with the power dynamics of mediated research encounters so students are capable of communicating effectively with professional level peers and senior colleagues.
5. Critically review and consolidate their knowledge in this subject for the essay assessment |
Assessment Information
| One 4,000 word report |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Week 1: Introduction of course topic & membership categorisation analysis (MCA) for internet forums
Week 2: MCA continued and analysing Youtube materials
Week 3: Indigenous Knowledges
Week 4: Popular Knowledges
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| Transferable skills |
Students will be able to:
Effectively search and collect online data from internet forums , video archives (e.g. Youtube) and other media repositories
Present data from media and especially online sources, as forms of evidence in empirically-based reports
Analyse the perspectives, experiences and sources of knowledge and power of people presenting their worlds through media
Report on a pre-established topic presenting and analysing empirical materials from multiple media sources.
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| Reading list |
Antaki, C., Ardévol, E., Néunez, F., & Vayreda, A. (2006). ¿¿For she who knows who she is:¿¿ Managing Accountability in Online Forum Messages. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication11, 114-132.
Birchall C (2006) Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip. Oxford: Berg
Jones, N., & Raymond, G. (2012). ¿The Camera Rolls¿: Using Third-Party Video in Field Research. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 642(1), 109¿123.
Smith L T (2012) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Qualitative methods, online media, sequential analysis, membership categorisation analysis, indigeno |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Eric Laurier
Tel: (0131 6)51 4303
Email: Eric.Laurier@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Beth Muir
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: beth.muir@ed.ac.uk |
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