Editing Workshops and Classes (section)

== Northwestern Courses & Workshops ==

* '''[Winter 2024]''' '''History and Theory of Information''' (COMM_ST 395 | MTS 525, syllabus link forthcoming) — We live in an information age, with computers of unprecedented power in our pockets. This course seeks to understand how information shapes our lives today, and how it has in the past. It does so via an interdisciplinary inquiry into four technological infrastructures of information and communication—print, wires, airwaves, and bits. Co-taught by [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Immerwahr Daniel Immerwahr].

* '''[Fall 2023]''' '''[[Introduction_to_Graduate_Research_(Fall_2023)|Introduction to Graduate Research (MTS 501, Fall, 2023)]]''' &ndash; The goal of this seminar is to introduce first-year students in the Northwestern University TSB and MTS Ph.D. programs to (1) current research in these fields, and (2) key challenges involved in pursuing an impactful, responsible, and fulfilling research career. Taught by [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]]

* '''[Winter 2022]''' '''[[Online_Communities_and_Crowds_(Winter_2022)|Online Communities & Crowds (COMM_ST 378 | MTS 525)]]'''&ndash; Online communities & crowds are fundamental to how people communicate, work, play, learn, socialize, and more. However, they also threaten our well-being and undermine critical social institutions as well as the integrity of public discourse. This (advanced undergraduate and graduate level) course seeks to understand online communities & crowds. It does so through an interdisciplinary inquiry into a set of practical challenges that confront online communities & crowds today. When and why do some efforts to overcome these challenges succeed? What insights and expectations can we draw from these experiences? Taught by [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]]

* '''[Fall 2021]''' '''[[Introduction_to_Graduate_Research_(Fall_2021)|Introduction to Graduate Research (MTS 501, Fall, 2021)]]''' &ndash; The goal of this seminar is to introduce first-year students in the Northwestern University TSB and MTS Ph.D. programs to (1) current research in these fields, and (2) key challenges involved in pursuing an impactful, responsible, and fulfilling research career. Taught by [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]]

* '''[Fall 2020]''' '''[[Statistics_and_Statistical_Programming_(Fall_2020)| MTS 525 / COMM_ST 395: Statistics and Statistical Computing]]''' — This course provides a get-your-hands-dirty introduction to inferential statistics and statistical programming mostly for applications in the social sciences and social computing. My main objectives are for all participants to acquire the conceptual, technical, and practical skills to conduct your own statistical analyses and become more sophisticated consumers of quantitative research in communication, human computer interaction (HCI), and adjacent disciplines.

* '''[Winter 2020]''' '''[https://docs.google.com/document/d/11NBkZS3w8Fp5YSHo71TQuykJ1Z6lfqbo1AW5GV2hRGk/edit?usp=sharing History and Theory of Information]''' — We live in an information age, with computers of unprecedented power in our pockets. This course seeks to understand how information shapes our lives today, and how it has in the past. It does so via an interdisciplinary inquiry into four technological infrastructures of information and communication—print, wires, airwaves, and bits. Co-taught by [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Immerwahr Daniel Immerwahr].

* '''[Spring 2019]''' '''[[Statistics and Statistical Programming (Spring 2019)| MTS525: Statistics and Statistical Programming]]''' — A quarter-long graduate-level quantitative methods course that focuses on both the foundations for inferential statistics as well as the nuts-and-bolts of statistical programming in the GNU R programming language. Taught by [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]].

* '''[Spring 2019]''' '''[[Practice_of_scholarship_(Spring_2019)|The Practice of Scholarship (MTS 503, Spring 2019)]]''' — The second of two required seminars in the Media, Technology & Society (MTS) and Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) programs, the goal for this course is simple: submit a piece of academic research for publication by the end of the quarter. The course and assignments are structured to help students cultivate (more of) the skills, wisdom, and experience necessary to publish independent, original, and high-quality scholarship in relevant venues for their work. The experience will probably feel like a combination of a writing bootcamp and an extended group therapy session.

* '''[Fall 2016]''' '''[http://aaronshaw.org/teaching/2016/occ Online Communities & Crowds (COMMST 378)]''' — This advanced undergraduate course presents an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of online communities and crowds, with a particular emphasis on how and why some of these systems are so wildly effective at mobilizing and organizing people in ways that seem to have been impossible a few decades ago.

* '''[Fall 2016]''' '''[http://aaronshaw.org/teaching/2016/mts501 Introduction to Graduate Research (MTS 501)]''' — The first of two required seminars in the Media, Technology & Society (MTS) and Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) programs, this course introduces first year Ph.D. students to research skills and gives guidance on how to be a productive and responsible scholar.

* '''[[BYOR|Bring Your Own Research Workshop (BYOR)]]''' — A research workshop for CDSC affiliates and fellow travelers at Northwestern convened by [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]]. Participants present work and provide peer feedback/accountability in weekly meetings. Most members of the group are affiliates of the [http://mts.northwestern.edu Media, Technology & Society] and [http://tsb.northwestern.edu Technology & Social Behavior] programs at Northwestern and study online communities, collective action, organizations, collaboration, and related topics.

* '''[Spring 2016]''' '''[[Practice_of_scholarship_(Spring_2016)|The Practice of Scholarship (MTS 503)]]''' — The second of two required seminars in the Media, Technology & Society (MTS) and Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) programs, the goal for this course is simple: submit a piece of academic research for publication by the end of the quarter. The course and assignments are structured to help students cultivate (more of) the skills, wisdom, and experience necessary to publish independent, original, and high-quality scholarship in relevant venues for their work. The experience will probably feel like a combination of a writing bootcamp and an extended group therapy session.