Graduate Seminar 2023-2024
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 2023-2024 run by Lidia Pereira, Steve Rushton, Kate Briggs, Marloes de Valk. The seminar will comprise individual tuition with Steve, Kate, Lidia 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, Kate, Lidia & 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, Lidia and Natasha draft feedback on the thesis texts they supervised
Mid-May: Steve, Marloes, Lidia 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
A Guide to Essay Writing (including guide to Harvard method).
Criteria for evaluation (Thesis)
Resources from Methods Sessions
Text on Practice 2023 (a good basis for your project proposal)
Lens Based Rapid Prototypes (aka hacks or scratches):
Lens based Projects That May or May Not:
PROJECT THAT MAY OR MAY NOT GET MADE
Xpub Rapid Prototypes and Projects That May or May Not:
Session One
Hosted by Steve, Kate, Lidia and Marloes
Outcome session one: outline of basic GRS plan for the year. New Project That May or May Not be Made text (draft project proposal).
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/GRS1-2022-3
Pad for note taking and reference during the session.
Timetable for session one
Outcome: Draft Project Proposal (Project That May or May Not be Made.)
11:00 – 11:30 Intro Grad Seminar Steve, Kate, Lidia and Marloes.
Overview of the course. Who is who & what’s the plan for the year.
11:30 - 13:00 Introductions
In the first session we are going to get straight to work. Each student will introduces themselves via the Project(s) That May or May Not Be Made and Rapid Prototypes they worked on last trimester (5 minutes each).
Lens Based Rapid Prototypes (aka hacks or scratches):
Lens based Projects That May or May Not:
PROJECT THAT MAY OR MAY NOT GET MADE
Xpub Rapid Prototypes and Projects That May or May Not:
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:30
Write a new Project That May or May Not Be Made OR build on existing Project That May or May Not Be Made.
Use the format we are familiar with:
What ? (two sentences)
How? (two sentences)
Workflow (two or three sentences)
Timetable (Sept 23-July 24)
Relation to previous practice (two sentences, draw on Text on Practice)
Choices made (two sentences)
Note: When writing this, please consider where you are at with your self-directed research and what you want to achieve this year. Think concretely about what you want to make, how you are going to make it and why you are going to make it. Consider: What possibilities are open to you? What material have you written (for previous presentations, descriptions of work , assignments for last year's methods class, Text on Practice and the methods of annotation you developed &c) which you can use for a 'draft proposal'?
Make two new Rapid Prototypes (20 mins)
15:25 Upload Project That May or May Not Be Made and Rapid Prototypes to this page
15:30-16:30 Review draft.
16:30: Round up and outline of next session.
Homework 3 rapid prototypes related to the text you wrote today.
- Note: you may want to develop an existing Project That May or May Not Be Made.
2023/2024
XPUB
LB
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Session Two
Develop last week's text.
Timetable for session Two
Outcome: Draft Project Proposal
11:00 - 11:45
In groups of 3/4
Present Rapid Prototypes you made following the last sessions - discuss.
13:00 Lunch
14:00- 15:30
In groups of 3/4 review each others drafts. One person takes notes, 2 people discuss that person's draft, what is clear, what is unclear, which questions it raises, what works of art or theory relate to it, etc.
15:30-16:30
Edit your text, taking into account the points made in your group.
16:30-17:00
Meet as group to review work done and outline the next session.
(https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Graduate_proposal_guidelines):
1 What do you want to make? 2 How do you plan to make it? 3 What is your timetable? 4 Why do you want to make it? 5 Who can help you and how? 6 Relation to previous practice 7 Relation to a larger context 8 References/bibliography
16.15 - 17.00 review & homework next session: hackpact and annotated bibliography: synopsis of 3 key works (literature, film, art) related to practice/research.
Upload your draft proposal below:
Last year's proposals
XPUB:
- Al's XPUB2 proposal draft
- Miri's XPUB2 proposal draft
- Emm's XPUB2 proposal draft
- Kamo proposal graft
- grgr's draftss
- pad of mitsa's draft
- Kimberley's draft
- Jian´s proposal draft
- Supi's proposal draft
- chae's graduate proposal
LB:
Pelle's Project Proposal Draft
Session three
Outcome session three: Draft Project Proposal
Timetable session three
11:00 - 11:30 Reiteration of purpose of proposal - working document for the purpose of assessments Q+A
11:30 - 13:00 Writing individually
LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 In groups of 3 review drafts; discuss hackpacts and how it connects to your proposal; tutors check in on groups.
15:00 - 16:30 writing individually.
16:30 - 17:00 deadline for draft project proposal, review of day. Homework: hackpact, draft and annotated bibliography on wiki.
Session four
Outcome session four: Thesis Outline
Timetable session four
Presentations on past thesis, thesis outline and thesis research + thesis writing session
11:00 - 17:00 OUTCOME: THESIS OUTLINE (1500 words)
11:00-13:00 Morning: presentations and exercise in groups
Welcome Lidia! Overview of the day
Presentations (1 hour):
- Steve: What is a thesis; how to go about writing an outline, + examples of different thesis types (15-20 mins & Q&A)
- Kate: Thesis research: sources and referencing (10 mins & Q&A)
Discussion
Exercise in groups of 3 (1 hour):
- Take 20 mins each to discuss what you want to write, what mode of address
What do you WANT to write?
What mode of address do you want to assume? How do you want your text to speak to the reader?
(this dictates the form: essayistic, academic, narrative, non-linier, script; diary; field report)
Be clear about HOW you want to tell your story.
Key issues you want to explore (what research questions do these lead to?)
Please think of only 3 key issues.
Once you identify these you can begin a chapter outline.
13:00 - 14:00 Break
14:00 - 15:30 Writing
Draft your thesis outline (1500 words max).
15:30 - 16:30 Reviewing drafts in your groups of 3
Take 20 mins each to review each person's draft
16:30 - 17:00 Wrap-up
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Graduate_Proposals_2021-2022
Next session is individual tutorial with your supervisor (thesis supervisors will be confirmed by email next week) - see calendar for tutorial slots
Homework for next session:
1) Rapid Prototypes! 2) Continue to work on thesis outline and proposal
Optional homework: Explore JSTOR and source a relevant journal article for your thesis research!
Shadow libraries: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Interfacing_the_law#Resources
Link to last year's GRS wiki page:
Graduate Seminar 2022-2023
Graduate Seminar 2021-2022