Communication and Information

Module aim

To empower doctoral students to develop and reflectively apply competencies in education and academic communication by creating inclusive, ethical, and contemporary practices of academic interaction and teaching and learning, and by integrating these competencies into their disciplinary, research, and professional activities.

Description

The course is designed to develop doctoral students' capacity to operate effectively in a contemporary academic environment, where teaching, research, and communication form an interconnected whole of professional academic practice. The course addresses key principles of higher education pedagogy, student-centred and inclusive learning, academic communication strategies, ethical and responsible interaction within the academic community, and communication with diverse societal groups. Particular emphasis is placed on doctoral students' ability to reflect on their academic practice, critically and systematically evaluate decisions, and apply educational and communication knowledge in authentic professional contexts. The learning process is grounded in reflective and experiential learning, analytical dialogue, critical thinking, and the independent development of professional academic identity.

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

Reveal principles and possibilities of communication methods in creative economy, to identify the latest communication trends in the above mentioned economy, to form a theoretical knowledge system helping to research the creative economy

Description

Analysis of creative economy from communication perspective. Critical comparison of different creative industries' sectors formulated both by governments and scholars. Presentation of the paradigms of creative class, creative city and creative society. Analysis of difference between social capital and creative capital. Critical analysis of different creativity indices.

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.