Spring+2013+Web-based+Course+Description

Areas and Approaches
Various data analysis approaches will be covered, including narrative analysis, symbolic and semiotic analysis, analytic induction, inductive policy analysis, constant comparison, thematic analysis, critical analysis, symbolic interactionism, and phenomenological analysis. Emphasis is placed on finding congruence, i.e., tweaking and arranging research components, such as the research questions, terms, data collection, literature review, data analysis, stakeholders and conclusion making, as relationally and tightly as possible.

Meeting spaces
Lectures will be conducted in the online Adobe ConnectPro virtual classroom twice per week for 10 weeks. One finds the room after logging in at [|https://connectpro.helsinki.fi/data-analysis/].

Moreover, options will be created for participants to explore other engaging perspectives on digital culture in its popular and academic forms. Specifically, we will make available multiple channels of participation through the involvement of the wider social web and the use of various free and open social networking tools (e.g., weblogs, Facebook, twitter, flickr, youtube, synchtube, Google Plus).

Also, we will be using the course wiki (http://pgrads.wikispaces.com/) as a tailored course library, a holding tank for our materials, where articles, books, handouts and presentations can be found. During the course, participants who so desire will have the opportunity to use digital spaces in new ways to present their work. Meetings with the instructors may occur online at appointed times through the ConnetPro site, Skype or telephone.

Intended Audience
Advanced doctoral students possessing dissertations topics, literature reviews, and data.

Schedule
Class meetings are t o occur Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17.30 until 19.30 for ten weeks, 5.37.5 (weeks 10 through 19).