Communication and Information

Module aim

To develop students' pedagogical competence, adapted to the individual educational practice, successful and modern planning, organizing and managing the study process.

Description

The subject reveals close connections between subject, scientific and educational competencies of a teacher. During lectures, seminars, and independent work, higher education didactics is analyzed, emphasizing student-centered studies, international and national higher education space, forms and methods of communication, methodologies in academic environment with different groups of society. The basis of studies consists of reflexive experiential learning, which helps to develop doctoral students' analytical and critical thinking, ability to evaluate their own and others' decisions, promotes a holistic and responsible approach to their activities.

Module aim

To introduce the most innovative research methods and methodologies providing specialized knowledge for the solutions to the scientific research and other areas problems.

Description

Science philosophy. Prevention of plagiarism. Search for scientific information. Scientific information bases. How to write and publish a paper in a journal indexed in Web of Science. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing Knowledge transfer, commercialization and patenting.

Module aim

To introduce the most innovative research methods and methodologies providing specialized knowledge for the solutions to the scientific research and other areas problems.

Description

Science philosophy. Search for scientific information. How to write and publish a paper in a journal indexed in Web of Science. Big data and its analytics. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing. Quantitative methods for cross-sectional data analysis. Modern software tools for processing and vizualization of experiments results. Statistical processing of the research data and development of empirical models. Knowledge transfer, commercialization and patenting.

Module aim

To introduce the most innovative research methods and methodologies providing specialized knowledge for the solutions to the scientific research and other areas problems.

Description

Science philosophy. Prevention of plagiarism. Search for scientific information. Scientific information bases. How to write and publish a paper in a journal indexed in Web of Science. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing Knowledge transfer, commercialization and patenting.

Module aim

The aim of this course is to set the list the concepts that define the new ICTs as types of governing"logics" - that is frameworks through which the current media ecosystems work.

Description

The influence of information technology communication content on public information is inseparable from the development of information technologies and their social definition. In the scientific literature, this is described as a social construction of technology. Social construction is defined by common principles of technology application, which change with each generation of information technology and potentially take on new forms. The course structure is based on a series of lectures and seminars where students actively read and engage with the course material and it is led by an experienced researcher. The course is driven by the need to better understand the current information communication technologies and their ecosystems that govern our current social lives. Specifically, the focus here is on the social and technological contexts in which new ICTs emerge and what are the typologies of the analyses that can be applied to them.

Module aim

To provide research degree candidates with systemic knowledge about interdisciplinary innovations in digital communication and co-creation, and to develop practical skills for applying different digital communication methods in distinct environments

Description

This course is built form lectures and small seminar groups led by experienced researchers. The course research on the Internet enabled society and reflects Lithuanian Smart specialisation priority "Inclusive and creative society", which highlights the impact of ICT technologies on social progress. Artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, ICT supported collective intelligence and other innovations are directly related to the development of digital communication. The development in the field of digital communication and co-creation is influenced by the innovations in three fields: growing connectivity through ICT, open data movement and diversity in digital collaboration forms. However, because of the diversity in technological tools and information channels, the networked society face in praxis the problems with coordination, collective decision making and opinion structuring, security and privacy, etc. These problems will be discussed from interdisciplinary perspective.

Module aim

The aim of the course is to form the ability to keep discussion on various topics by critically evaluating the propositions of disputants as well as texts and contexts they use.

Description

Annotation of course The course analyses dialogue as triplex structure: talking - with somebody - about something. It also researches the above mentioned structure's extension into polylogue through the other (direct or indirect) participants of communication, namely, into talking - with somebody - about something - by referring on somebody - criticizing somebody - and so on. The course critically compares the main theories of communication by revealing their differences, advantages and deficiencies as well as critical limits and incommensurability. The course also searches for the similarities between those theories as well as for possibilities and principles of the inter-theoretical dialogue. Finally, it reveals how inter-theoretical discussions enable critical evaluation of uncritical monological statements within communication theories themselves

Module aim

To acquire knowledge and skills, needed to perform communication research corresponding frontier and emerging research tendencies.

Description

Course creates possibility for students to get acquainted with Frontier methodology of communication science and emerging research tendencies, to find out purpose and specifics of contemporary research in communication science, to get acquainted with emerging data collection technologies. Students perform scientific research research: prepare research programme, collect data, and perform data analysis. Students have to demonstrate ability to choose appropriate frontier research methods, to perform the research and to interpret and present research findings