2018/19
Course image CIM Study Skills 18/19 2018/19
 
Course image IM902:Approaches to the Digital 2018/19

Computer networks, devices, and infrastructures structure and facilitate much of our social, political and cultural life. This core module introduces students to an array of approaches to studying digital media and culture.

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or visit https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im902-approaches-to-the-digital/


 
Course image IM903:Complexity in the Social Sciences 2018/19

This module introduces an interdisciplinary group of students to some of the main quantitative and computational approaches for modeling complex social systems. You will be introduced to a range of methodological approaches from across a range of disciplines. 

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk


 
Course image IM904:Digital Objects, Digital Methods 2018/19

In the era of networks, big data and the digital turn, traditional objects, such as documents, pictures, data, groups, events or patterns, open up to new methods of research. Emerging digital research methods also become means through which such objects are sustained, thus co-creating dynamic objects, such as networks, databases, platforms, data visualizations, maps and many other new forms of social, cultural and public life. This module offers an insight into these new and emerging societal and cultural entities and methodologies.

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im904-digital-objects-digital-methods/


 
Course image IM906:Dissertation 2018/19

The CIM Masters dissertation is a piece of work (10,000 words) which addresses a single subject of your choice. The topic may concern any aspect of the subject matter of their programme. The dissertation is an exercise in independent study in which you pursue a topic that interests you. It allows you to further develop your skills of literature search and bibliography construction, theoretical argument, generation and appraisal of empirical evidence.

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im906-dissertation/


 
Course image IM911:Fundamentals in Quantitative Research Methods 2018/19
 
Course image IM913:Spatial Methods and Practice in Urban Science 2018/19

Urban science is a rapidly growing field that investigates the way people interact within and are influenced by urban systems. It is dedicated to harnessing the wealth of social information available in our modern information society. In this way, urban science uses large amounts of heterogeneous data to better understand cities and other types of complex urban systems, as well as the integration of new technologies with them.

The aim of this module is to present the theoretical and practical methodological and substantive foundations of urban science.

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im913-urban-science/


 
Course image IM919:Urban Data 2018/19

Cities have traditionally adapted to the raise of new technologies, like cars or telephones, for instance. Nowadays, digital technologies and data in particular are transforming the material, cultural, social and political spheres of the urban realm.

These transformations require new theories and research methods to understand the spaces, scales, and agents involved in the relationships between data and the urban. This module offers an insight into some of these current theories and methodologies, to question the notion of data itself, to challenge controversial notions like the smart city, and to expand the realms of inquiry of urban data.

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im919-urban-data/

 
Course image IM923:User Interface Cultures: Design, Method and Critique 2018/19

Syllabus

Week 1 – Introduction: Genealogies of the Interface

Week 2 – The Interface as Socio-Technical Assemblage

Week 3 – What is a User?

Week 4 – [Graphics] – The Operational Image

Week 5 – [Workflow] – Governance of Actions

Week 6 – [Processing] – Time and Cognition

Week 7 – [Analytics] – Trace Data, Optimization and Social Media Platforms

Week 8 – [Storage] – From Web Archives to Digital Folklore

Week 9 – Conclusion: The Mediation of Behaviour 

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im923-user-interface/


 
Course image IM926:Research Design, Practice and Ethics 2018/19

Welcome to the Research Design, Practice and Ethics MSSR Core Module!

 
Course image IM927:Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Science 2018/19

The module is aimed at introducing interdisciplinary perspectives on current challenges faced by cities and urban science, in order to develop a critical understanding of the role of digital technologies, big data and urban analytics for promoting sustainable urban development in “smart city” initiatives worldwide. This is achieved through a series of invited talks featuring both academic and professional experts, which is accompanied by a discursive seminar. 

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im927-digital-cities/


 
Course image IM931:Interdisciplinary Approaches to Machine Learning 2018/19

This module serves as an interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary machine learning research and applications, specifically focusing on the techniques of deep learning which use convolutional and/or recurrent neural network structures to both recognize and generate content from image, text, signals, sound, speech, and other forms of predominantly unstructured data. Using a combination of theoretical/conceptual/historical analysis and practical programming projects in the R programming language, the module will teach both the basic application of these techniques while also conveying the historical origins and ethical implications of such applications.

    For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to  https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im931-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-machine-learning/


     
    Course image IM933:Media Activism 2018/19

    Syllabus

     

    Week 1: Art, media, and activism—how we got to today

    Week 2: Capital, labour, and value in a digital age

    Week 3: Institutions, knowledges, and organising in globalized networked societies

    Week 4: Hacktivism, commodity activism, clicktivism, slacktivism

    Week 5: Performance, art, design, fiction (lecture and seminar)

    Week 7: Designing media activism (workshop)

    Week 8: Media squares (lecture and seminar)

    Week 9: Far-right co-options (lecture and seminar)

    Week 10: Whither media activism? (workshop)

     

    For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or visit https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im933-media-activism/


     
    Course image QS906:Big Data Research: Hype or Revolution? 2018/19