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Research Seminar "Data Analytics for Politics and Society"

2026/2027
Учебный год
ENG
Обучение ведется на английском языке
3
Кредиты
Статус:
Курс обязательный
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1-4 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The Research Seminar aims at helping students to develop research designs of their term papers and improve their academic writing skills. The seminar is meant to be a workshop resulting in a coherent term paper research design. The class consists of 9 pairs of classes, each pair (except for the first one) devoted to a particular aspect of research design. The first class is devoted to discussing contemporary academic literature with the focus on the specific aspects (e.g, the literature review), while the second class features the discussions of students’ texts within peer review teams. For the seminars students are expected to 1) prepare the specific part of their research proposal, 2) to read their classmates’ texts and comment on them.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The aim is to make students able to read and critically discuss articles from the field of social, political studies and big data analysis, and conduct empirical research using different sources of data
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Applies mining tools to collect, filter, categorize and apply big data from social media for the specialized research
  • Applies knowledge on the necessary theoretical, conceptual, methodological, empirical and ethical considerations to build own research.
  • Applies datasets amd bases from secondary sources for conducting the specialized research
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Introduction to analytical sociology and political science
  • Sources of (big data); quality of data
  • Academic and social relevance. Writing a literature review
  • Theory
  • Methodology
  • Data I
  • Data II
  • Empirical chapter
  • Research ethics
  • Mock defense
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Активность на семинарах
  • non-blocking Письменные комментарии к текстам однокурсников
    Ожидается, что читая тексты своих однокурсников, студенты будут комментировать их через Google Docs.
  • non-blocking Расширенный план-проект исследования
    Это несложное письменное задание, цель которого – проверить, качество ознакомления студентов с материалами курса, и повысить их участие в активности на дисциплине.
  • non-blocking Таблица отзывов
    Ожидается, что после каждого раунда коллегиального обсуждения студенты заполнят и представят таблицу отзывов на основе комментариев, полученных от одноклассников и преподавателя.
  • blocking Экзамен
    Экзамен представляет собой тест по основным темам, рассматриваемым в рамках курса.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2026/2027 4th module
    Формула оценивания: 2023/2024 учебный год 4 модуль * 0,20 Grading formula: 2023/2024 academic year Module 4 * 0,20
  • 2027/2028 2nd module
    Формула оценивания: 2023/2024 учебный год 4 модуль * 0,20 Grading formula: 2023/2024 academic year Module 4 * 0,20
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Bakshy, E., Messing, S., & Adamic, L. A. (2015). Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science, 348(6239), 1130–1132. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1160
  • Berman, R., Melumad, S., Humphrey, C., & Meyer, R. (2019). A Tale of Two Twitterspheres: Political Microblogging During and After the 2016 Primary and Presidential Debates. Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), 56(6), 895–917. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022243719861923
  • Besley, T., & Persson, T. (2009). The origins of state capacity: property rights, taxation and politics. LSE Research Online Documents on Economics.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Lynggaard, K. V. aut. (2019). Discourse Analysis and European Union Politics by Kennet Lynggaard. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.1678679399

Authors

  • CHERNYKH EKATERINA YUREVNA
  • ARKATOV DMITRII ALEKSANDROVICH