Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/22-09-2022 -Event 1

MFAD2: Introduction to the Graduate Research Seminar [GRS} with Steve Rushton, Marloes de Valk and Natasha Soobramanien in the aquarium WH 4.115

Intro to GRS: Outcome: Project Proposal (trim 4)

Outcome: Thesis Outline (trim 4)

Outcome: Thesis (trim 4 & 5)

This is the page for the Graduate Research Seminar 2022-2023 run by Steve Rushton, Natasha Soobramanien and Marloes de Valk. The seminar will comprise individual tuition with Steve, Natasha or Marloes and group sessions on specific methods (including peer to peer commentary, editing, line-editing and proofing). The days set aside for the seminar will be devoted to achieving specific outcomes which further the research and completion of the proposal and thesis. This page will be used to upload information on your Project Proposal and Thesis and to serve as an ongoing record of research.

How The Sessions Are Structured The sessions will be for all second year media students: Y2LB and Y2XPub. These will take the form of all-day workshops which will take place every other Thursday.

The outcome of each session will be published on the wiki (or Pad) and reviewed by the group. Sessions will include group work, individual work and individual tutorials with Marloes, Natasha & Steve.

Achievable aims will be set ahead of the next session. 

Key Dates and Deadlines These are the key dates for 2022-23

18 November - Graduate Proposal Deadline This is a link to Graduate_Proposals_2021-2022 A previous year's Graduate Proposals Graduate Proposals 2020-2021

18 November - Thesis Outline Deadline A previous year's Thesis Outlines Thesis Outlines 2020-2021

2 Dec - Deadline First Chapter 17 Feb - Deadline First Draft Thesis 17 March - Deadline Second Draft thesis (texts to 2nd readers) 31 March - Deadlines Second readers' comments 14 April - DEADLINE THESIS

Grading procedure (Thesis):

Early May: Steve, Marloes and Natasha draft feedback on the thesis texts they supervised

Mid-May: Steve, Marloes and Natasha review each other’s feedback and grades

End of May: Finalize feedback and grades.

Early June: Finalized feedback and grades communicated to students.

Guides and Guidelines Graduate_proposal_guidelines

Second Readers Guidelines

A Guide to Essay Writing (including guide to Harvard method).

Thesis Guidelines

Criteria for evaluation (Thesis)

Lens Based 2022 Text on Practice

Texts on Practice 2022 (a good basis for your project proposal)

Session One Hosted by Steve, Natasha and Marloes

Outcome session one: introductions of all students and writing tutors, outline of basic GRS plan for the year.

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/GRS1-2022-3

Pad for note taking and reference during the session.

Preparation for session one What have you been making?

What do you want to do next?

Be prepared to give an account of where you are at with your self-directed research and talk about what you want to achieve this year and what you want to do. Lens-based students will give brief demos of current work flow. How have you been using the 2 week cycle between tutorials with Steve to make work?. Xpub students will talk about the work they have been doing on the Special Issues (individually and collectively). All students will be asked to consider what possibilities they wish to explore in the coming year.

Think concretely about what you want to make this year, how you are going to make it and why you are going to make it. Consider: What possibilities are open to you? (It is understood that making a final project is a process and things will change as you work on it). What material have you written (for previous presentations, descriptions of work , assignments for last year's methods class, the methods of annotation you developed &c) which you can use? Review the written feedback from tutors you got from previous assessments and have it available for reference during the first session.

Timetable for session one

11:00 – 11:15 Intro Grad Seminar Steve, Natasha and Marloes. Who is who & what’s the plan for the year.

11:15 - 12:15 Introductions part I (past work) 5 minutes per person.

Students talk briefly about current projects. Discuss the writing and research practices you have already developed (for example, the Text on Practice (Lens-based) and various annotation projects and work generated on Special Issues (Xpub)).

12:30 - 13:30 Introductions part II (past work)  5 minutes per person.

13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 - 15:15 What is a thesis, what is a project proposal and WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE! :)

15:15 - 16:15 A short writing game in groups of 3: note taker, interviewer, talker/presenter (can also show past work) 16:15 - 17:00 Review exercise; discuss hackpact; questions

Homework assignment: hackpact.