LTEC 6516: Advanced Qualitative Methods – Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
6516 – Week 16 Reflection
What was new? What did you already know that was refined? Computer-mediated discourse analysis was a new qualitative method for me, and perhaps my biggest takeaway from this class. As society continues to move deeper into utilizing digital devices as a main mode of communication, our ability to refine our research and analysis of these…
Keep reading6516 – Week 7b Reflection
Prompt: Week 7b Reflection on Readings This particular week the module focused on a classroom activity and not readings. Unfortunately, we did not get the opportunity to partake in the planned classroom activity, so my Reflection post will stay a bit from the expected review. For this module, I honed into a subtle hyperlink that…
Keep reading6516: Week 4 – Reflection
PROMPT: Describe the methods you explored and how you decided your top choice is best aligned to your potential dissertation topic. Post this in your blog. Like many scholars, I have been enthused and overwhelmed by the current state of technology innovations with the recent introduction of ChatGPT to the commercial market. The limitless potential…
Keep reading6516 – Week Three Topic: The value of CMDA for research
The article “Computer-mediated discourse analysis: an approach to researching online communities” (Herring, 2004), discusses the importance of computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA) for researching online communities. The author explains how CMDA can be used to analyze communication patterns in online communities and understand how people use language to interact in these digital contexts. The article highlights…
Keep reading6516: Week 3 – Reflection
What did you learn about CMDA from your readings? I went down a rabbit hole of how CMDA can be applied to conversations surrounding ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. The article Data-driven artificial intelligence to automate researcher assessment (Weber & Duarte, 2021) presents a data-driven AI approach to automate researcher assessment by classifying candidate researchers…
Keep reading6516 – Week 1: Personal Research View
What is my general worldview in terms of what I think can be known, why that is the case, and how we can best understand the world? What a deep question. We can only know what we choose to discover. The quantity of what can be known is limitless if we are willing to pursue…
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