Social Analytics in Context
2018/2019
Content, progress and pedagogy of the module
The module social analytics in context comprises preparation of a project concerning digital collaboration and contains data preparation and data analytics. The project must be carried out in collaboration with an organization or community.
Learning objectives
Knowledge
In this module students will acquire knowledge of:
- Dataset construction and data harvest, including its technical, ethical and legal implications
- Data relevant problems in organizations, including their relation to organizational culture and the wider ecology of methods available in the organization
- Data driven research designs and their implications for data needs and analysis.
Skills
In this module students will acquire skills in:
- Formulating data-driven questions that make sense in context, taking available data, existing knowledge practices and the strategic situation of the organization into account.
- Carrying out relevant data analysis
- Producing relevant data visualizations
- Narrating methods and findings in ways that make sense to the organization
Competences
In this module students will acquire competences in:
- The management of a data project, including its different stages, components and participants
- The translation of data projects into real world cases and contexts.
Exam
Exams
| Name of exam | Social Analytics in Context |
| Type of exam | Oral exam based on a project
The examination is a conversation between the student(s) and the
examiner based on a project report produced individually or in a
group. The project report/written work will be considered the
shared responsibility of the group. Students will be examined and
assessed on the basis of the entire project report, and one
combined grade will be awarded each student for the project report
and the oral performance.
Literature foundation: Minimum 500 standard pages supervisor approved, self-selected literature related to the project. The project report: the total number of pages must be no less than 10 pages and no more than 15 pages per student in a project group, and 20 pages if written individually. Duration of examination: 15 minutes per student and 5 minutes per group for assessment and announcement of result. 20 minutes in total for individual examinations. At oral group examinations, the examination must be conducted in such a way that individual assessment of each individual student’s performance is ensured. |
| ECTS | 10 |
| Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
| Type of grading | Internal examination |
| Criteria of assessment | The project report and the conversation must demonstrate that
the student fulfils the objectives for the module stated above.
In the evaluation of the examination performance, the grade 12 will only be awarded to students who give an excellent performance and demonstrate that they have fulfilled the above objectives exhaustively or with only few insignificant omissions. Any re-examinations will be held on the basis of a revised project report. |
Facts about the module
| Danish title | Social Analytics in Context |
| Module code | KAINFOS1813 |
| Module type | Project |
| Duration | 1 semester |
| Semester | Autumn
9. semester |
| ECTS | 10 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Location of the lecture | Campus Aalborg |
| Responsible for the module |
Organisation
| Study Board | Study Board of Communication and Digital Media |
| Department | Department of Communication and Psychology |
| Faculty | The Faculty of Humanities |
