printer friendly pageCOMM 369: Measurement and the Study of Change in Social Science Research (PSYCH 253)
This course is a survey of methodological issues associated with the measurement of psychological constructs and processes of change. General areas to be covered include use of latent variable models (structural equation modeling), classical test theory, generalizability theory, principal component analysis, factor analysis, item response theory and how these models facilitate and/or constrain the study of change processes. Students will work through application/implementation of the models through hands-on analysis of simulated and empirical data, acquire experiences in the formulation of research questions and study designs that are appropriately tethered to the different theoretical perspectives invoked by the different models.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
COMM 372G: Seminar in Psychological Processing
Media and Mental Health is the topic for the
Comm 372G seminar in Winter Quarter 2022. The seminar will focus on new ways to define media interactions that can be linked to mental health, taking advantage of new methods and computational analytics that provide granular details about media use. We will consider both the role of media in diagnosing mental illness, as well as how media use may change the onset, course and treatment of mental illness. We will discuss and write about psychiatric illnesses including bipolar disorder, suicide and suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress disorders, anxiety, attention disorders, addiction, schizophrenia, post-partem depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders and eating disorders. Dr. Thomas Robinson (MD, Stanford Medical School) will join in instruction, and mental health experts will provide briefings on different diagnoses. The main focus of discussions (and writing), however, will be on media and technology content, applications, contexts,
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Media and Mental Health is the topic for the
Comm 372G seminar in Winter Quarter 2022. The seminar will focus on new ways to define media interactions that can be linked to mental health, taking advantage of new methods and computational analytics that provide granular details about media use. We will consider both the role of media in diagnosing mental illness, as well as how media use may change the onset, course and treatment of mental illness. We will discuss and write about psychiatric illnesses including bipolar disorder, suicide and suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress disorders, anxiety, attention disorders, addiction, schizophrenia, post-partem depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders and eating disorders. Dr. Thomas Robinson (MD, Stanford Medical School) will join in instruction, and mental health experts will provide briefings on different diagnoses. The main focus of discussions (and writing), however, will be on media and technology content, applications, contexts, functions, sequences, rhythms, applications and services. We will be guided by new work and data from the Screenomics Lab that records moment-by-moment changes in screen use (see
screenomics.stanford.edu for background). The seminar is open to MA and PhD students across the university, and with permission of the instructor, to advanced undergraduates.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Reeves, B. (PI)
COMM 378: Media and Time
As media technologies change, they radically restructure our experience of time. This course will bring together readings from media psychology and media history in order to understand this process. Students will explore issues such as the acceleration of everyday life, new modes of screen use, and the transformation of cultural categories such as narrative and the event. Ultimately the course aims to help prepare students to consider time in scholarship about media.
Last offered: Spring 2022
COMM 380: Curriculum Practical Training
Practical experience in the communication industries. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Meets requirements for Curricular Practical Training for students on F-1 visas. (Staff). F-1 international students enrolled in this CPT course cannot start working without first obtaining a CPT-endorsed I-20 from Bechtel International Center (enrolling in the CPT course alone is insufficient to meet federal immigration regulations).
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
Instructors:
Bailenson, J. (PI)
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Christin, A. (PI)
;
Fishkin, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bailenson, J. (PI)
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Christin, A. (PI)
;
Fishkin, J. (PI)
;
Hamilton, J. (PI)
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Hancock, J. (PI)
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Iyengar, S. (PI)
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Krosnick, J. (PI)
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Li, X. (PI)
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Pan, J. (PI)
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Ram, N. (PI)
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Reeves, B. (PI)
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Turner, F. (PI)
COMM 382: Big Data and Causal Inference
Massive datasets are increasingly available for research as digital technologies pervade our lives. These data represent new opportunities for social science research, but prominent examples of data science research bear little resemblance to the research designs of social scientific inquiry. In this course, we use machine learning and statistical tools on large-scale datasets to answer social science questions of cause and effect. Familiarity with Python recommended. Enrollment limited to PhD students in COMM or Social Science who have completed or are currently taking graduate quantitative methods sequences in Economics, Political Science, Sociology, or Statistics. Contact ohtammy@stanford.edu for a permission number to enroll (please include a current CV).
Last offered: Winter 2017
COMM 382B: Research Seminar in Computational Social Science
Technological advances have generated massive datasets available to use for research. Graduate students are increasingly well trained in computational and statistical techniques, but often encounter resistance from publishers and reviewers when applying these techniques. This is a graduate research seminar in which students will carefully read cutting-edge works in computational social science, and discuss in detail their theory, data and empirical methods, and overall scientific contribution. We will consider what makes these works successful, and participants will present in the seminar. Instructor approval required for non-Ph.D. students to enroll. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 383: Digital Repression
Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions that are meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity. The rise of digital and social media has brought substantial increases in attention to the repression of digital activists and movements (e.g., violence against online activists), the deployment of new strategies for repression enabled by digital and social media (e.g., digital surveillance and social credit schemes), and the development of information strategies designed to diminish the effectiveness of social mobilization (e.g., influence campaigns). This Ph.D. seminar explores a fast growing body of research spread across disciplines and areas of study to better understand what constitutes digital repression and what is new about digital repression. Email instructor for consent.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
COMM 384: Media Technology Theory (ARTHIST 465, FILMEDIA 465A)
This course surveys major theoretical approaches to the study of media technologies, including Frankfurt School critical theory, media archaeology, actor network theory, science and technology studies, platform studies and theories of critical making. By the end of the course, students should have a rich familiarity with the literature in this area, as well as with exemplary empirical studies conducted within each tradition. Preference to Ph.D. students in Communication and Art and Art History. Consent of instructor required for non-PhD students.
Last offered: Spring 2020
COMM 385: Media as Ways of Knowing
How do the tools and techniques of capturing, representing, storing, and transmitting information shape how and what we know? And how might such instruments influence the relationship between epistemic practices and forms social, cultural, and political life? This course will draw on scholarship across the history of science, science and technology studies, and media theory to consider the role media technologies play in how knowledge is produced, circulated, and authorized. Instructor consent required. Limited to PhD students or with consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2023
COMM 386: Media Cultures of the Cold War (ARTHIST 475)
The intersection of politics, aesthetics, and new media technologies in the U.S. between the end of WW II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Topics include the aesthetics of thinking the unthinkable in the wake of the atom bomb; abstract expressionism and 'modern man' discourse; game theory, cybernetics, and new models of art making; the rise of television, intermedia, and the counterculture; and the continuing influence of the early cold war on contemporary media aesthetics. Readings from primary and secondary sources in art history, communication, and critical theory.
Last offered: Winter 2021
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