[Commlist] Online Summer School on Media Representations and Research Methods (fifth edition) (Training)

Maastricht (ONLINE), Netherlands

Date: 20/08/2023 - 31/08/2023
Registration deadline: 20/07/2023

The fifth online edition of this course lasts from 21 August until 1
September 2023. The earlier online course editions in 2020 (twice), 2021 and
2022 were fully booked. Between 2014 and 2019, I organized seven on-campus
editions of this course in Maastricht.

Media Representations and Research Methods Summer School in a Nutshell

The course focuses on critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and news
framing.The course teaches you to work with a hands-on template that helps
you to write better academic papers.The course includes a one-hour lectureon
research questions and offers personal advice on your research questions.The
course includes all day e-mail support in case you get stuck with your
assignment.The course will be online.The course fee will be €399.The course
is spread across two weeks.Daily teaching hours will be limited to three
hours at most. This enables you to optimally concentrate in an online
setting. Teaching days will start at 13.00 (Maastricht time zone/GMT+2) and
end at the latest at 16.00 (Maastricht time zone/GMT+2). This makes it 
easier
for students from far away countries to deal with the large time
differences.If you have any questions about the course program, content and
recommended readings, please contact Leonhardt [1] or visit his website
[2].For questions about the application process, please contact Maastricht
Summer School Office [3].
Student reviews of Media Representations and Research Methods Summer School

(Quotes taken from LinkedIn recommendations)

“I found Leonhardt very well familiar with all the dynamics of his class
room, as he very efficiently caters to the need of all his students coming
from different social, cultural and educational backgrounds.” – Sadia
from Pakistan

“Leonhardt is a great lecturer who knows his subject matter. I found his
inclusive approach particularly useful in teaching media analysis
techniques.” – Koen from Belgium

“Not only did Leonhardt demonstrate a high level of expertise in the
subject, but he also helped his students understand difficult concepts in a
very accessible way, effectively bridging the gap between theory and
practice, and fostering fruitful discussions in class.” –Carolina from
Brazil

Description of Media Representations and Research Methods Summer School

What do the newspaper coverage of the War in Ukraine, the tweets by Elon 
Musk
and the heated social media debates about migration have in common? This
course teaches you the analytical skills to study the possible meanings of
textual and visual media representations.

Interactive lectures offer you concepts and methods to examine what
combinations of words and/or visual elements mean in terms of a broader
debate in society. These lectures further help you to understand how 
national
identities and power relations affect the interpretations of media
representations. Your individual assignment concerns a short paper, in which
you apply a method to study one or two news articles, cartoons or social
media posts.

Specially for this Summer School, Dr Leonhardt van Efferink developed a
template that helps you to write a well-structured course paper. On top of
this, he offers individual feedback in class and active personal tutoring by
e-mail. Finally, his support includes a simple framework to develop focused,
consistent and transparent research questions.

Goals of Media Representations and Research Methods Summer School

Designing an analytical framework to study media representations with 
textual
and/or visual elements (e.g. newspaper/magazine articles with photos,
cartoons and social media posts).Developing a research method that draws on
critical discourse analysis, social semiotic analysis and/or news framing
analysis, in line with your research objectives.Explaining the role of the
national and ideological contexts in which (social) media content is being
produced.Understanding the complexity of text-image relations and their role
in meaning-making processes.Producing a research design and dataset for your
thesis or dissertation that is manageable.
Timetable of Media Representations and Research Methods Summer School

Media Representations and Research Methods Summer School will be an online
course.Please check Leonhardt's website for most up-to-date version of the
timetable [4]

Suggested Literature for Media Representations and Research Methods Summer
School

Dr Leonhardt van Efferink has based this course on publications in various
languages (see overview below for some examples). You are not required to do
pre-course reading. However, if you would like to do so, you are advised to
select one of the publications below. You can also contact Leonhardt [5] for
tailor-made reading advice.

Caple, H. (2013) Photojournalism. A Social Semiotic Approach.Dahinden, U.
(2006). Framing. Eine integrative Theorie der Massenkommunikation.D’Angelo,
P. (ed.) (2018) Doing News Framing Analysis II. Empirical and Theoretical
Perspectives.Geise, S., & Lobinger, K. (eds.). (2013). Visual Framing.
Perspektiven und Herausforderungen der visuellen
Kommunikationsforschung.Machin, D. (2007) Introduction to Multimodal
Analysis.Machin, D. and Mayr, A. (2012) How to do Critical Discourse
Analysis.Richardson, J. (2007) Analysing Newspapers. An Approach from
Critical Discourse Analysis.Royce, T. D. (2006). Intersemiotic
Complementarity. A Framework for Multimodal Discourse Analysis. In T. D.
Royce, & W. Bowcher (Eds.), New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal
Discourse (pp. 63-109).Van Gorp, B. (2010) Strategies to take the
Subjectivity out of Framing Analysis. In P. D’Angelo, & J. A. Kuypers
(Eds.), Doing News Framing Analysis. Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
(pp. 84-109).Wodak, R. and Meyer, M. (eds., 2016) Methods of Critical
Discourse Studies.
Keywords for Media Representations and Research Methods Summer School

▪ Critical Discourse Analysis ▪ Social Semiotics ▪News Framing ▪
Textual Analysis ▪ Visual Analysis ▪ Text-Image Relations▪ Multimodal
Analysis ▪ Media Representations ▪ Research Methods ▪ Research Design
▪ Research Questions ▪ Research Paper Template ▪ Analytical Skills ▪
Critical Thinking ▪ Employability

Contact

Main contact details of the Summer School:

Click here for all course information on Leonhardt's website: 
https://vanefferink.com/summer-school-media-representations-and-research-methods/

Questions about Program, Content and Recommended Readings? Please 
contact Leonhardt: (l.vanefferink /at/ maastrichtuniversity.com)


Questions about Application Process? Please contact Maastricht Summer
School Office: (summerschool /at/ maastrichtuniversity.nl)

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