Extra training and guest lectures
The ViDSS strengthens education and international networking of doctoral candidates by organising and promoting seminars and guest lectures by international scholars from outside the University of Vienna.
Winter semester of 2023/2024
“Marienthal 2.0 – Design and methods to scale observational studies.”
Methods seminar in the doctoral programme in Social Sciences
4–7 December 2023
Building on Lazarsfeld’s seminal study Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal this course will introduce modern methods of using smart phones and other wide-spread sensors to collect behavioral data from the general public. This course will discuss these opportunities, and provide practical guidance on how to design such data collection.
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Frauke Kreuter
Chair of Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities at LMU Munich, Professor of Survey Methodology at University of Maryland
Paul Lazarsfeld Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, Department of Government
Contact
fkreuter@umd.edu
www.soda.statistik.uni-muenchen.de
jpsm.umd.edu
“Visual Framing Analysis”
Methods seminar in the doctoral programme in Social Sciences
4–14 December 2023
The course focuses on visual framing analysis from a social science perspective and identifies methods to investigate visuals in different types of content, including traditional media, social media, or online news coverage. Four levels of visual framing will be used as a baseline during the semester: visuals as denotative systems, visuals as stylistic-semiotic systems, visuals as connotative systems and visuals as ideological representations (Rodriguez & Dimitrova, 2011). Different methodological tools such as surveys, experiments, content analyses, rhetorical criticism as well as newer computational analysis tools for visual classification will be covered. Class examples will touch upon various topical areas such as elections, global migration, cultural stereotypes, protest and police brutality as well as civil society activism and war framing.
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Daniela Dimitrova
Professor at Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication, Iowa State University
Paul Lazarsfeld Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, Department of Communication