Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Lena Kostuj


Lehrveranstaltungen

Qualitative Research Methods - Cultural Entrepreneurship (Übung)

Dozent/in: Lena Kostuj

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 14.102 b Seminarraum

Inhalt: This course offers students a basic introduction to qualitative research methods. In this tutorial, students come together at Leuphana and discuss the lecture's content in more detail. We will have time to answer questions and look at published studies as examples for conducting qualitative research. A primary goal of this tutorial is the advancement of students' own research projects, which will make up 70% of the final grade. Research projects are group-based projects of two to three students. Students will conduct their own qualitative study and present their interim results within this tutorial (30% of final grade). While the students themselves will discern the individual research questions, the broader focus of this seminar will be on 'Cultural Entrepreneurship', exploring the characteristics and specific challenges of cultural work and organizations. Students are asked to work on a related topic and collect their empirical data accordingly by taking field notes, interviewing people for their research projects, and/or collecting further empirical evidence (if applicable). The seminar will be used to discuss current challenges and apply the lecture's theoretical constructs to practice.

Researching conspiracy theories: narratives, aesthetics, and social organizing (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Lena Kostuj

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 16.10.2024 - 23.10.2024 | C 40.704 Seminarraum
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 30.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 40.153 Seminarraum | ab 30.10. in C40.153

Inhalt: Most visibly since the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of various types of conspiracy content via social media has accelerated. While the term 'conspiracy theory' itself is highly debated, we want to turn towards different methodological approaches to analyzing the phenomenon in-depth. In this seminar, we will draw from qualitative approaches such as narrative analysis, multimodality, and social semiotics, conversation analysis as well as more journalistic approaches such as debunking to discuss different kinds of conspiracy content. In groups, you will analyze a conspiracy theory in your chosen way and present it in class and in (creative) text form so that we, at the end of the semester, have a shared collection of your different insights and perspectives.

Qualitative Research Methods - Lecture (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Leonie Anika Eising, Sünje von Helldorff, Lena Kostuj

Inhalt: This course offers students a basic introduction into qualitative research methods. Qualitative research is a strategy to study a given phenomenon of interest through interviews, participant observations, and documents. In contrast to quantitative research approaches, these large bodies of unstructured data can often not be analyzed by formal, statistical approaches. Students will learn to differentiate between qualitative and quantitative research and to discern the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. We will cover topics such as the nature of qualitative research, different research designs, data collection, data analysis and coding, writing up qualitative research, and ethics in qualitative research.

Qualitative Research Methods - Exploring the Dark Side of Entrepreneurship (Übung)

Dozent/in: Lena Kostuj

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 14.204 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This course offers students a basic introduction to qualitative research methods. In this tutorial, students come together at Leuphana and discuss the lecture's content in more detail. We will have time to answer questions and look at published studies as examples for conducting qualitative research. A primary goal of this tutorial is the advancement of students' own research projects, which will make up 70% of the final grade. Research projects are group-based projects of two to three students. Students will conduct their own qualitative study and present their interim results within this tutorial (30% of final grade). While the students themselves will discern the individual research questions, the broader focus of this seminar will be on 'The Dark Sides of Entrepreneurship', exploring possible negative effects of entrepreneurship, with a particular emphasis on the concept of conspiracy entrepreneurship (i.e. entrepreneurs commercializing conspiracy content and profiting off of it). Students are asked to work on a related topic and collect their empirical data accordingly by taking field notes, interviewing people for their research projects, and/or collecting further empirical evidence (if applicable). The seminar will be used to discuss current challenges and apply the lecture's theoretical constructs to practice.