Reference Worksheets Digital Research Skills for Media Studies

The Media Studies Reference Worksheets are a set of online accessible learning and teaching resources for essential digital research skills intended for students, researchers, and lecturers in the field of Media Studies. All learning and teaching resources are offered in English to cater to international Bachelor’s, Master’s and Research Master’s students, researchers, and lecturers. They are also tailored so that they may be integrated and used in the context of specific courses in our Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Research Master’s programmes. Moreover, these resources help facilitate blended forms of learning where online digital media are combined traditional classroom methods. The included reference worksheets address essential digital research skills required to conduct, manage, organise, and present research involving different types of sources and data. Common examples include: film databases or directories, collections of movie titles, second screen data, collections of television shows, audience data, social media data, and web data. Learning to work with these data and materials enables students to independently develop (digital) humanities projects.