Course Schedule

Start > Leuphana Bachelor (B.A./B.Eng./B.Sc./LL.B.) -> Major Digital Media -> BA-Thesis

Lehrveranstaltungen

BA Colloquium (Arbeitsgemeinschaft)

Dozent/in: Nishant Shah

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Sa, 26.01.2019, 09:45 - Sa, 26.01.2019, 17:30 | HMS D20
Einzeltermin | So, 27.01.2019, 09:45 - So, 27.01.2019, 15:30 | HMS D20

Inhalt: Research in Digital Cultures is caught in the paradox of everything-nothing. Because digital technologies are ubiquitous and they are now the conditions we live in as opposed to conditions we live with, it is obvious that almost anything and everything can be studied under the purview of digital cultures. From social and political activism and intervention to economic and infrastructure production and distribution; from individual identities and expression to collective organisation and communities; from governance and policies to terms of service and technology law; from human rights frameworks to technology rights implementation; from hardware and physical networking to software and code.... the list is unbound. Because of this proliferation of objects, ideas, processes, and practices, we also borrow from multiple disciplinary and methodological frameworks in Digital Cultures Research. Digital Cultures is often the convergence point for inter-disciplinary work, and instead of a Digital Cultures Method, we generally find intersections of different methods with the digital materiality and practice, as the new mode of approach. The question at hand is this: If everything can be studied, and everything can be studied through almost any framework, how do we make sense of our individual and collective research inquiries? How do we identify our knowledge practice as within 'Digital Cultures'? What academic forms can we subscribe to, in order to give coherence and sharpness to our research? What methods do we develop in order to get a deeper insight into our research? In this 2 day colloquium, we look at the larger structures of how to form a research question, how to determine the methods that shall support our inquiry, how to build hypotheses, and how to engage with mixed methods that help us in creating and crafting research proposals that help shape the field of Digital Cultures.