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{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Training
|Full title=Technology and Social Interaction PhD Course Copenhagen 2022
|Short title=Tech PhD Course 22
|Short summary=Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen invited PhD students to enroll in their course on Technology and Social Interaction. Centered on practical skills working with video data in the #EMCA tradition. Register by 11 October 22! https://bit.ly/3I3vvEa
|Announcement text='''TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL INTERACTION'''

PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen

People use technology in everyday life and on work for all sorts of purposes. And while technology gets smaller, easier to use, more convenient, etc. new forms of social interactions emerge. Technology is a vital part of most people’s lives. People use computers, smartphones, video-mediated formats, chats, etc. as key elements in their lives and in intertwined forms. In this PhD course, we do not put emphasis on any specific type of technology, and we do not go into depth with the technology itself. We focus on the methods for analysing human interaction as it naturally occurs in a context of technology by looking at people’s practices for using technology and interacting in a context of technology. 

'''The approach that will be taught on the course'''

This course focus on how to analyse video data collected through video ethnographic methods. The overall methodology is based on video ethnography (e.g. Heath, Hindmarsh, & Luff, 2010; Due, 2017) and multimodal conversation analysis (e.g. Goodwin, 2000; Streeck, Goodwin, & LeBaron, 2011; Mondada, 2014) in the ethnomethodological tradition (Rawls, 2008; Suchman, 2007) – often termed EM/CA. We briefly discuss this approach against related fields like Science and Technology Studies (STS), Actor-Network theory (ANT) (Latour, 2005) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) / Human Robot Interaction (HRI). However, the course will not be particularly theoretical, but very practical in relation to issues of doing analysis of video material and establishing novel findings.

The course focus on methodological issues concerning 1) Applying video ethnography and collecting video material in the field, 2) organizing and transcribing data and 3) analysing and discussing findings from the material. Thus, the course will be very hands on.         

The course is for PhD students from all sorts of fields and disciplines, but students should either be planning on using video-recordings in their dissertation or already have collected video-recordings from fieldwork.

'''Teaching format and ECTS'''

The course is a 4-day workshop format. This provides for ECTS depending on paper presentation. The course is organized as short presentations from the teachers, workshops around video data (data sessions) and presentations from students. Students are expected to have some minimum level of understanding of ethnomethodology, interaction / conversation analysis and video ethnography. This can be achieved through the reading material as provided below.

All students are expected to do a presentation of their research project in the beginning of the course. If students aim for the 4,5 ECTS, a full paper must be provided as a presentation on the course. The full paper shall have the form of a coherent conference presentation and be delivered as a 10 min. verbal presentation with clear arguments and empirical examples and findings.

If students have already collected video material, they should bring it and show excerpts during the workshops. Students can work on their own video material during the course. If students have not yet collected video data, they can work on video material provided by the teacher or other students. All students will therefore be able to get enhanced skills in video analysis.    

Students who already have collected video-data and made transcriptions are invited to provide that data for a shared analysis in the class (data session), which is very helpful for gaining insights about one’s material. Students should write directly to course leader Brian Due if they would take that offer.

'''Teachers on the course'''

Brian Due, PhD, associate professor at Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, is organizing and teaching on the course. Other guests will be invited for shorter presentations.
Lorenza Mondada will be delivering guest lectures during the last days of the course
It will lead up to the annual conference Multimodality Day. Students are encouraged to participate in this conference: https://circd.ku.dk/calender/2022/7th-copenhagen-multimodality-day/ 

'''Target audience and preparation to the course'''

This course is for every PhD-student who is interested in peoples use of technology, technology affordances, objects in interaction and social interaction, and who is using or want to use video ethnographic methodologies and employ detailed multimodal analysis of this material. Both Danish and foreign students are welcome. Teaching is in English.

'''Preparations'''

The type of data we will be focusing on is primarily video recordings. We will focus on how to collect and transcribe that kind of data, and how to make analysis of it and construct novel claims. You should prepare following:

*Email Brian Due (bdue@hum.ku.dk) 100-200 words describing 1) your focus, 2) your theoretical standpoint and 3) your data and 4) experience with EMCA video ethnography.

*Everyone must present their work. You should state your type of presentation in the above mentioned document.
**3 ECTS: 4 min. overall presentation
**4,5 ECTS: The presentation/paper must have a specific format:

*Be a PowerPoint (or similar) kind of presentation (like conference presentations)

*Last for 9 min. (Followed by 6 min. discussion).

*Not focus on “everything” in your PhD, but have a narrow focus on one particular claim/argument you want to make about technology-in-use.

*Must contain a theoretical position – this have to include a stance towards something from the reading list. (This will be a crucial way to include the obligatory +500 pages of readings and make it relevant for each project and discussions).

*Must be based on showing and analyzing data and reflections on how you (plan to) contribute with new knowledge.

'''Date and time: 28 October, 31 October, 1 November, and 2 November 2022 from 9:00 to 16:00'''

'''Venue:''' The course will be held at University of Copenhagen. Hybrid participation is possible.

'''Preliminary programme:'''

Day 1

*Overview of the course and the theoretical landscape (part 1)
*Student presentations
*Issues of collecting video-data of technology-in-use 
*Open Q&A session.

Day 2

*Theoretical landscape (part 2)
*Student papers
*Issues of transcribing and analyzing
*Issues of establishing findings and constructing arguments 

Day 3

*Dive into particular themes of embodiment, epistemics, identity and technology
*Lectures by invited professors
*Data sessions

Day 4

*Workshop and data sessions focusing on analysing own video data

ECTS:
3 ECTS for participation with short presentation.
4.5 ECTS for participation with presentation.

'''Registration:''' Please register via the link in the box on the website no later than 11 October 2022. 

'''Further information:''' Please contact the PhD Administration (phd@hrsc.ku.dk) or the course organiser for further informaition.
|Year=2022
|Web link=https://bit.ly/3I3vvEa
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2022/10/28
|To date=2022/11/02
|Location=55.66292, 12.58933
|Submission deadline=2022/10/11
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