MC 501 Lecture Decks

Research Methods for Mass Communications

One deck per weekly meeting. Each deck folds the week’s material together with the assigned reading and the discussion built on it. Each deck opens in your browser; use the arrow keys to move through it.

Session Topic Deck
Week 1 Orientation and The Science of Storytelling Open
Week 2 The Open Workspace Open
Week 3 Ethics and Intelligence Gathering Open
Week 4 Annotating the Literature and Theory as a Lens Open
Week 5 Variables, Hypotheses, and the Research Question Open
Week 6 The Prospectus and Structured Listening Open
Week 7 Manifest, Latent, and the Move to Variables Open
Week 8 Measurement, Reliability, and the Codebook Open
Week 9 Coding the Codebook and First Contact in R Open
Week 10 The Sample and the Pilot Open
Week 11 Wrangling the Data [R] Open
Week 12 Describing the Data [R] Open
Week 13 Inferencing the Data [R] Open
Week 15 The Publisher: White Paper and Poster Studio Open