Modul 25005: Medienmanagementseminar Media Research (SS '07)

C. Loebbecke (with Assistants)

Wahlpflichtveranstaltung, 2 SWS, 6 Credit Points (LP)

Overview
The course will cover the basics of scientific work focussing on media management and systems. We will prepare for writing short papers and a diploma thesis, discuss research approaches, read & review research papers, and look at personal works by selected authors and their respective careers.
The course will be taught in ENGLISH! Preparation will not be necessary. Registration (see below) is mandatory.
GROUP WORK is mandatory. Groups of two or three students need to be formed before or during the first course meeting, individual work is impossible!
We recommend groups of THREE students (it helps to share work and learn about group work!).

Dates and Location
12.04., 19.04., 26.04., 03.05., 10.05., 21.06., 28.06. (all '07), 17:45-21:00 h in XXIII.
The number of actual class sessions depends on the number of participants. Participation in all sessions but one 90 minute session (!)  is required for receiving Credit Points!

Written Assignments
Groups of 3 students receive research papers.For those papers, the groups prepare assignments including an outline of the authors' bios, a short summary of the paper, a description of the research methodology used in the paper and a critical but constructive review. The review comprises errors of fact, logic, or form, discusses the errors concerning the chances of getting fixed, and makes suggestions, how to fix them or how to improve next time. 

Specialty
We offer students to join us on our trip to Bled conference which will take place in Bled, Slovenia, from June 4 to June 6, 2007 (www.bledconference.org) and meet the authors and question them during or after their presentations. Authors love it when somebody has read their paper! Bled authors come from all over the world, mostly Europe and Australia, though. We pre-select the papers so that you get to know fun authors and that they may even reply to an eMail ahead of time.
Constraint: Bled is during 'Pfingstferien', but it is a peaceful vacation place! Bled costs money: about 1,000 km by car or train group ticket, accommodation (rather cheap for students), and 200 Euros registration fee per head. We cover 100 Euros of those 200 Euros for Cologne MM students. Bled will be great fun (we took master students to Bled before, they said it was fun!), but it is NOT required for successfully taking the course.

Grading / Credit Points
Grading will be based on
- course participation - individual (25%),
- smaller exercises and assignments during the course - individual or group (15%),
- and written and oral paper review and presentation - group (60%).
Students receiving a final grade of 4,0 or better will be awarded 6 Credit Points ('Leistungspunkte') in Media Management.

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