070212 UE Course on Methodology - Introduction to DH Tools and Methods (Skills I) (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Mo 18.03. 09:45-13:00

The correct handling of data is at the heart of the Digital Humanities. Practical skills – from data cleaning to data analysis and visualization – are the prerequisite for independent work in the field as well as the basis for an informed dialogue with professional data scientists and software developers. The course will introduce students to the basics of the Python programming language and its most important libraries, thereby leading them towards their use for their own projects. – No previous programming skills are required. All students are asked to bring their own laptops (no tablets).

136011 UE Data structures and data modeling (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Fr 24.05. 15:45-19:15

Ort in u:find Details

The aim of the course is to familiarize you with basic data structures and, in particular, to learn semantic data modeling based on requirements analysis. The focus is on practice, i.e. you should generate appropriate data models and, if necessary, implement them technically using small projects in the humanities. No programming knowledge is required. Rather, you should acquire the knowledge required for the respective project through the project work over the course of the course, which corresponds to (DH) practice anyway. The focus is on an application-oriented approach and therefore also on the (imaginary) user - thus different humanities disciplines. In small teams, you will develop the data, structures and models you need for this project based on self-selected projects. They present requirements and solutions and finally the implementation based on the final project, which they also document in writing (see below). Data modeling also invites you to discuss the empirical and theoretical framework conditions for data acquisition and processing.

136013 UE Visualization of humanities data (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

URL https://teaching.vda.univie.ac.at/vis

Moodle

Computer-based visualization systems provide visual representations of datasets intended to help people carry out some task more effectively. These datasets can come from very diverse sources, such as scientific experiments, simulations, medical scanners, commercial databases, financial transactions, health records, social networks and the like. In this course we deal with effective visual mappings as well as interaction principles for various data, understand perceptual and cognitive aspects of visual representations and learn how to evaluate visualization systems.

136031 UE GenAI for Humanists (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Fr 15.03. 09:45-11:15

Seminarraum 4 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

The aims of the course are:

> Understanding Generative AI Concepts:

-- Provide a basic understanding of the Neural Networks Architecture underlying Sequence2Sequence and Generative Models

-- Provide a comprehensive understanding of generative AI concepts and tools, including generative models for text, images and speech data.

> Practical Skills Development:

-- Learn basics of Prompt Engineering

-- Use popular Python LLM frameworks like LangChain and LLamaIndex

-- Use Generative AI models using Open Source Models from Hugging Face and proprietary APIs like OpenAI ChatGPT.

136032 UE Creating content in science - Recording and editing technology (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mi 20.03. 15:00-18:15

Ort in u:find Details

Students gain an insight into the technical side of creating and editing different audiovisual media and thereby learn to produce such media themselves with a high technical standard. The subject areas range from field research recordings to science communication and focus primarily on recording formats, conventions and other technical aspects, rather than on the content itself.

136038 UE Doing research with text corpora (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mi 13.03. 09:45-13:00

Seminarraum 1 2H316 UZA II Rotunde

The course introduces students to the study of text corpora. A corpus, in its broadest sense, is a structured collection of texts. In modern usage, this usually refers to a digital text collection that is annotated with respect to a pre-defined set of analytically relevant features. Although the systematic study of machine-readable text corpora as an empirically based method has mostly been developed within the field of linguistics, text corpora can be useful for investigating all sorts of research questions within the Digital Humanities.

136020 VO Introduction to Digital Humanities (2024S)

Lecture Series (MA)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Moodle

Mi 13.03. 16:45-18:15

Hörsaal 2 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3

The lecture series aims to provide the broadest possible overview of the state of research as well as current theory, practice and methods in the digital humanities. The speakers, who come from various areas of the humanities, will show how the digital access they use opens up new possibilities in their research.

136021 UE Lectures of Ringvorlesung (Digital Humanities) (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Do 14.03. 09:45-11:15

Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

The reading course complements the VO “Introduction to Digital Humanities” and deepens its content. We will read international specialist articles and individual book chapters in English and German, which will be prepared so that we can then discuss and discuss them together.

040309 VU Doing Data Science (MA) (2024S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

This course covers the fundamentals of building, managing, and executing data science projects. Students acquire knowledge of processes that describe how data science projects are approached and implemented. You know the individual steps of the CRISP industry standard, learn about different use cases (from different areas such as business, humanities, astronomy) and are able to carry out data science projects yourself.

053620 VU Data Ethics and Legal Issues (2024S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 5 - Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mo 18.03. 13:15-16:30

Hörsaal 34 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 6

Students will be introduced to ethical and legal challenges when dealing with real data. Specifically, the topics of the course are structured into four parts, two on ethical issues and two on legal issues. Both topics will be discussed on a principle level as well as from a practical perspective.

053631 LP Data Analysis Project (2024S)

12.00 ECTS (8.00 SWS), SPL 5 - Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

136033 SE Creating Web Experiences for the Digital Humanities (2024S)

4.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Sa 16.03. 09:45-16:30

Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

The digitisation of cultural heritage and historical data has created previously unimagined possibilities for humanities researchers. We now have instant, online access to databases harvested from museum collections, archives and libraries, and researchers can access and use data and materials stored in any location, at any time, from anywhere in the world.

070065 VO Artificial intelligence: areas of tension, challenges and opportunities. (2024S)

Weitere Zugänge, Ringvorlesung in Kooperation mit der Stadt Wien

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Moodle

Do 14.03. 16:45-18:15

BIG-Hörsaal Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 1 Hof 1

In cooperation between the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and the City of Vienna, students in this lecture series will learn about different perspectives on the topic of “artificial intelligence” from theory and practice. Experts open up perspectives on different areas of society and science that are already confronted with the “AI revolution” today, that will be significantly affected by it in the future, or that have had to deal with it for a long time.

070173 UE Edition technology/digital edition (2024S)

10.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mo 18.03. 13:15-14:45

Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

Basic principles of the history and theory of scientific editing of historical source texts are taught, as well as knowledge and skills that enable the creation of professional editions in Latin and (Middle/Early New High) German in analog and digital form. This is done through lectures, discussions, joint exercises and carrying out independent exercises during the semester.

090031 VU The Archaeology of the Byzantine Book (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mo 18.03. 15:00-16:30

Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock

Content: Ancient books are much more than containers of texts. Their pages hide a centuries-long history, but one must learn how to make them talk and tell their stories. Manuscripts can be considered "archaeological objects": if studied in the right way and with the correct tools they can reveal to us who wrote and later used them, when, why, in which context.

136040 VU Practical Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing (2024S)

10.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Do 14.03. 11:30-13:00

Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

In this lecture, fundamental machine learning algorithms are implemented in Python and applied to natural language processing problems. The focus is on vector representations of texts, and the methods range from text classification with the perceptron algorithm, to word vectors, to simple neural networks.

160014 UE Digital corpus analysis and text mining in a musicological context (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mo 18.03. 15:00-18:15

Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01

Song lyrics, music reviews, verbal associations to sounds - in addition to audio data, musical texts, symbolic music formats, and much more. Digital text data can also represent interesting research objects for musicological studies. Methods from the fields of text mining and machine learning can be helpful in obtaining insightful information from large collections of such data.

060024 KU Digitale Kompetenzen (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 6 - Ägyptologie, Judaistik, Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Fr 15.03. 10:00-12:00

Numismatik Seminarraum Franz-Klein-Gasse EG

This course is aimed primarily at master's students with prior knowledge of numismatics, but is also open to doctoral students and researchers in related disciplines who would like to expand their digital skills.

060064 UE GIS applications in archaeology (2024S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 6 - Ägyptologie, Judaistik, Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

The course provides the theoretical and practical basics for the use of geographical information systems in archaeology. The exercise is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part: lecture with presentations. In the practical part, the material presented in the theoretical part is deepened by working on the PC using the QGIS 3.x software.

070036 UE Course on Methodology - Machine Learning for Medieval Manuscripts (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Mi 22.05. 08:00-13:00

Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9

This course is designed to provide students with comprehensive knowledge and skills in the study and analysis of Western medieval manuscripts through the application of machine learning methods for handwritten text recognition and their implementation in palaeographical and editorial contexts.

080017 PS Case study II/III: AI-generated artCase study II/III: AI-generated art (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Di 19.03. 10:45-12:15

Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07

“Artificial intelligence [...] does not exist. But an ensemble of machines, media, programs, algorithms, hardware and software has resulted in an extraordinarily large, diverse and productive field of research that is A.I. When asked, ChatGPT largely agrees with this assessment formulated by Peter Weibel in 2021: “As an AI model, I exist as a software application that runs on computer infrastructure and generates human-like text answers. You can say that I exist as a single entity, but my functioning is based on an ensemble of algorithms, data and infrastructure, similar to what Peter Weibel describes. So my existence is certainly real, but embedded in the broader concept of AI as a multidimensional research field.”

070036 UE Course on Methodology - Machine Learning for Medieval Manuscripts (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Mi 22.05. 08:00-13:00

Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to identify a range of medieval scripts; transcribe manuscripts according to appropriate editorial conventions; recognise and expand abbreviations found in medieval texts; apply machine learning algorithms for artificial palaeography; and gain proficiency in the use of software for automatic transcription of handwritten documents.

136013 UE Visualization of humanities data (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

URL https://teaching.vda.univie.ac.at/vis

Moodle

090120 UE Antiquity: Digital Epigraphy and Papyrology (2024S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

The aim of this course which will take in the form of a workshop, is to provide a basic knowledge on EpiDoc-XML. Students will learn how to edit inscriptions and papyri in EpiDoc and how to use FrontEnd applications and existing databases. An introduction to EpiDoc-XML and Digital Epigraphy and Papyrology will be followed by practical exercises on the digital editing of papyri and inscriptions. One day will be completely devoted to the practice in papyri.info, one to the practice in the MAPPOLA Database (mappola.eu). The course will be held together with Dr. James Cowey (Universität Heidelberg), expert in Digital Humanities and Digital Papyrology.

136013 UE Visualization of humanities data (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

URL https://teaching.vda.univie.ac.at/vis

Moodle

160067 SE Pre-existing music in films by Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino (2024S)

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Sa 16.03. 11:00-18:00

Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01

In this seminar we are devoting ourselves to three important film directors of the last 50 years who mainly use music quotes, i.e. pre-existing music, as film music in their films and therefore forego a composer for their films. Such music quotes can be taken from classical music, blues, pop, rock and jazz, or music from other films. We examine the question of why these three directors resort to pre-existing music and what concept of film music their outstanding films such as 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968), Shining (1980), Raging Bull (1980), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) , Kill Bill (2003/04), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Django Unchained (2012) or The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

170700 VO Media structures of the digital action space - technology, knowledge, aesthetics and power of interpretation (2024S)

Vorlesung

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 17 - Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft

Moodle

Mi 13.03. 11:30-13:00

Hörsaal 2H510 UZA II Rotunde

Using systems, discourse and affect theory approaches, we analyze phenomena of digital culture.

This lecture is designed to go in-depth on the VO - The genesis of the digital action space from the bachelor's degree program. However, this is NOT a requirement.

170742 UE Queer/Game/Studies. The plurality of queerness and queer theory in the context of digital games (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 17 - Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mo 08.04. 09:45-13:00

Seminarraum 3 2H467 UZA II Rotunde

When 3D artist Leona Faren began her transition in the early 2020s, all she experienced from her former employer, Bethesda, was incomprehension, toxicity and transphobia until her employment relationship was ultimately terminated. At the same time, the development and distribution studio naturally wraps their logo in a rainbow flag for Pride Month. A completely different story: At the start of Bethesda's latest role-playing game Starfield in autumn 2023, an angry video from the YouTuber "Heel vs Babyface" goes viral, in which he uses the pronoun query and the option to choose "they/them" to the greatest extent The scandal in human history explained.

160013 SE Computational Music Psychology (2024S)

Systematische Musikwissenschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen Psychologie und Informatik

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mo 08.04. 15:00-18:15

Seminarraum 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3A-O1-31

In this seminar the focus will be on the areas of overlap and points of connection between music psychology and music informatics.

The focus here is on the following questions in particular:

1) On the one hand, what opportunities do music psychology research have when encountering computer-aided analysis methods, for example in the area of Music Information Retrieval (MIR)?

2) On the other hand, how can musicological expertise be incorporated into the development of music information algorithms and help users of music technology systems gain a sound understanding of music psychology?

160022 UE Measurement methods in music research (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Di 09.04. 15:00-16:30

Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01

The technical possibilities for musicological research and teaching have increased rapidly in recent years. Especially with the establishment of the MediaLab at our faculty, our department received an additional and breathtaking boost in innovation.

070251 SE Seminar for the final thesis (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mo 08.04. 09:45-13:00

Seminarraum 17, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02

This course is aimed at students who are preparing a master's or doctoral thesis on a topic in the field of digital humanities or with a close connection to it.

070121 VO Digital Humanities (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Moodle

Do 14.03. 08:00-09:30

Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8

This introduction to Digital Humanities explores the promise and pitfalls of emerging methods in the Digital Humanities, as well as the intellectual contexts surrounding them. Through lectures, group discussions of key questions, visits with local digital humanities researchers, hands-on exercises, and self-directed research, students will gain a broad overview of the state of research and working methods in the Digital Humanities.

070111 PS BA-Proseminar - History with and through GIS (Geographical Information Systems) (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mi 13.03. 18:30-20:00

Seminarraum Geschichte 1 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 10

The course provides a theoretical and methodological overview of the use of geographical data in historical research. One focus is on georeferencing historical maps.

1) An introduction takes place using introductory texts and exemplary studies. The students gain an insight into how GIS (Geographic Information Systems, the processing of geographical data using computer programs) can be integrated into the research process illustratively and as a heuristic tool.

2) Skills for technical implementation are acquired in practical units. This includes the open source program QGIS (Quantum GIS) and a few of its functions (working environment, implementation of data, scripts, export).

3) The students present and discuss their projects.

4) Thesis.

070137 SE BA-Seminar - History under the sign of digitalization (2024S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Do 14.03. 15:00-16:30

Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7

The historical sciences produce certainties that are valid until they are displaced by other certainties. Are these constructed certainties therefore “false”? At the same time, fictions also produce concepts of reality that can claim the status of a certainty, a “reality” – or are assigned it. If the credo “What is effective is real!” is true, can fictions replace scientific certainties? How can scientific legitimacy – using the example of historical science – be established against this background? And how illegitimate is a view of reality that becomes socially effective?

100022 VO SpraWi: Quantitative methods in the Digital Humanities (2024S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 10 - Deutsche Philologie

Moodle

Mo 18.03. 11:30-13:00

Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9

The Digital Humanities (DH) deal with the digital preparation, making available and analysis of research data relevant to the humanities. In this lecture we focus on the quantitative methods that underlie the analysis of these data and, more generally, the answering of questions in the humanities. This includes the basics of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, computational linguistic methods of text analysis, network analysis, as well as an introduction to mathematical methods that are used in the humanities (e.g. dynamic systems). The aim is to understand these methods and to be able to apply them to simple questions in the humanities.

100145 SE-B SpraWi: Digital linguistics - databases in linguistic research (2024S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 10 - Deutsche Philologie

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Di 19.03. 13:15-14:45

Seminarraum 1 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 3

Digital databases are playing an increasing role in linguistic research. The entities that are collected in such databases and the characteristics that are assigned to them can be of a very different nature: in psycholinguistics, for example, key figures relevant to the processing of words are collected (e.g. MRC Psycholinguistic Database), the World Atlas of Language Structures collects Structural information from languages and databases such as the Irvine Phonotactic Online Dictionary provide phonological information, for example for creating pseudoword lists. What all of these databases have in common is that they bring together information from multiple data sources.

136101 VO Digitale Philologie: theory and practice (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Moodle

Mi 13.03. 11:30-13:00

Hörsaal 2 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3

Digital philology, which encompasses various tasks, methods and research fields, is “making sense of texts” (Sheldon Pollock) at the interface of text studies and humanities as well as information technology and data science.

136142 KU Computational Background Skills for Digital Humanities (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Mi 13.03. 13:15-16:30

Hörsaal 7 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 7

This course is intended to provide basic training and support for further skills courses in the Digital Humanities. It is strongly recommended as a prerequisite to the other DH practical courses. As such, students will be required to bring a laptop computer (no tablets!) If this presents a problem, please contact one of the course instructors in advance.

160026 PS Music in Audiovisual Context (2024S)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

Mi 13.03. 15:00-16:30

Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09

In this introductory seminar you will receive an overview of the methodology and statistics of empirical research on musicological topics. Own studies are carried out, based on which the most important principles of hypothesis formation, strategies for research and source evaluation, study design, methodology and statistics as well as everything necessary for evaluating and presenting empirical data are learned.

Summer Semester 2023 Courses

Digital Humanities (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

John Giebfried

SE Digital Experience in the (digital) Humanities (2023S)

4.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Arndt Niebisch

This opens up the possibility to create new digital experiences that exhibit and curate cultural artefacts in completely new ways. This seminar will engage with the question of digital experience in two ways. At first, we will discuss theoretical texts that deal with media experience and the transformation of experience in the digital realm, most recently the attempts to construct a "metaverse". We will use this theoretical knowledge to reflect on already existing digital projects in the humanities. At second, we will construct multi-media experiences (such as media enriched HTML5 Websites and/or virtual spaces with the game engine Unity), and assess those experiences with methods derived from UX research.

By the end of the semester, students should have an understanding of the concepts behind digital curation, user research, and a practical knowledge of how to create digital multi-media experiences. This will include topics such as:

* Media/experience: what is it?

* HTML5 multi-media applications,

* what are game engines? what can be done with them?

* Foundations of UX testing and research,

Practically, students will be taught the basics of working with tools for digital curation including:

* HTML5,

* Unity Game engine,

Students will also devise their own digital project.

UE Reading Course for the Lecture Series (Digital Humanities) (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Claudia Resch

The reading course complements the VO "Introduction to the Digital Humanities" and deepens its content. International specialist articles and individual book chapters in English and German are read, which are developed so that we can then discuss and discuss them together.

By reading selected articles, students acquire basic knowledge for the DH degree, get to know different forms and approaches of the subject and are thus able to reflect on certain positions and perspectives in exchange with the group.

In order to promote intensive engagement with the texts and the subsequent discussions, various "readings" and moderation formats will be tried out in the course, in which students are invited to get involved actively and creatively in multiple ways.

VO Lecture Series: Introduction to Digital Humanities (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Hannes Fellner

The goal of the "Lecture Series" is to give a broad overview of the state-of-the-art research and current theory, practice, and methods in Digital Humanities. The speakers from various fields in the humanities will discuss how digital approaches they are using brake new ground in their fields.

UE Digital Humanities in Historical Musicology. Methods and Perspectives (2023S)

Current Musicology

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Kateryna Schöning

The exercise offers getting to know central questions and methods in the field of digital musicology (focus on historical musicology) and "digital humanities"; Getting to know and trying out methods and techniques from common standards for scientific text and music coding (TEI, MEI formats) and possibilities of MIR (Music Information Retrieval). The focus is on the facets of modern digital music editions, the transition from analogue sheet music to digital objects, the possibilities and hurdles of music notation programs. "Computer-aided music analysis" will be discussed and practiced using examples from the 19th, 20th and 16th centuries (prints and manuscripts). Finally, the problem of communication and organization of "digital" research is introduced. The exercise provides for critical text reading and hands-on experimentation with accessible programs and data.

SE Seminar II: Digital Humanities in Practice (2023S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 15 - Ostasienwissenschaften

Jerome De Wit

UE Data Driven Research Methodology for the Digital Humanities (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Amelie Dorn

The course is aimed at introducing students to data-driven methods, frameworks, projects and examples with a particular focus on Digital Humanities projects and data sets. Generally speaking, a data-driven approach is when decisions and research questions are based on the inspection, analysis and interpretation of a particular set of data rather than on anecdotal judgements and observations. One of the larger aims of data-driven projects is the process of collecting and analysing data in order to derive insights and propose solutions for a defined challenge or general problem. In the field of Digital Humanities, data-driven research is particularly interesting as it allows not only to apply a variety of data processing tools, but also to gain insights into aspects of complex data, often hidden or unexplored. In this course a theoretical introduction will be followed by ideation and hands-on sessions where students will work in groups on conceptualising and prototyping their own data-driven project based on selected sets of open-data. Basics of the Python Programming Language will be introduced together with Jupyter Notebooks as a working environment. The course approach is both theoretical and practical, with hands-on exercises in project planning and prototyping. Students are expected to have some familiarity with digital environments, and previous practice with programming is desired, but not strictly mandatory. The course will be held in both English and German.

UE Visualization of humanities data (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Topics covered will include (but are not limited to):

* Introduction and historical remarks

* Visual design principles and the visualization pipeline

* Design studies

* Data acquisition and representation

* Basic visual mapping concepts (marks + channels)

* Human visual perception + Color

* Visual mappings for tables and multi/high-dimensional data

* Visual mappings for networks, graphs and trees

* Visual mappings and algorithms for 2D+3D scalar, vector, and tensor fields

* Visual mappings for text data

* Principles of multiple coordinated views

* Data interaction principles including Brushing+Linking, Navigation+Zoom , Focus+context

* Principles of Evaluation of visual analysis systems

* some selected advanced topic

Course-specific goals -- students can:

* represent and interact with various data visually

* evaluate visual depictions of data and possible find improved presentations

* assist users in visual data analysis

* use different visual analysis tools, like Tableau

General goals -- students gain:

* insight into a new discipline and extend their scientific horizons

* an appreciation for the interplay of mathematical analysis and user-centered design

SE Interdisciplinary Seminar Digital academic communication for the humanities (2023S)

Introduction and training in academic blogging and its dissemination

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 41 - Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Doktoratsstudium

This interdisciplinary seminar for students of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies aims at making its participants capable of reflection and action with regard to autonomous, goal-oriented, controlled, and visible digital scholarly communication.

In the first part, we will discuss research literature on the situation of the current digital transformation, especially focusing on the historical and cultural studies, whereby different sociological, psychological, and techno-historical texts will be considered.

The second part gives an overview of relevant platforms, their specific requirements and opportunities, and the degree of the engagement. This is also where the project work begins, insofar as different types of texts, images or even videos and audios are to be prepared to accompany individual doctoral projects. This will take place in small resonance groups.

In the third part, the material will be presented, discussed, optimized and then broadcast on a platform-specific basis. For this purpose, it will be possible to use the channels of the Doctoral School or those of the Professorship of Public History (especially for blogging).

Two points emerge as the central object of learning:

a) How do I use the digital platforms without succumbing to them?

b) How do I develop a scholarly communicative profile that benefits my messages as well as my own professional career in the medium to long term?

UE Crowd Sourcing in the Humanities (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Andreas Baumann

Crowd sourcing is a method of having individual small tasks done by several individuals ('workers') for payment via online platforms. The method has numerous applications in the humanities, such as collecting annotations from texts for the purpose of evaluating predictive models, conducting surveys or conducting online experiments. In this course, we will first gain an overview of the topic of crowd-sourcing and the platforms mostly used for it, with questions on study design and ethics playing a particularly important role. Several methodological aspects and tools are then examined: crowd-sourcing management with Prolific Academic; Survey creation with SoSciSurvey; quality control. In the practical part of the course, the students carry out their own crowd-sourcing studies in groups, the results of which are presented at the end.

For quality control, rudimentary statistical knowledge and experience with a scripting language (e.g. R or Python) are advantageous.

The language of instruction is primarily German, but written work or presentations can be written or held in English.

VO Theory and Methods of Digital Philology (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Hannes Fellner

Digital philology, which encompasses various tasks, methods and research fields, is "making sense of texts" (Sheldon Pollock) at the interface of text and social science as well as information technology and data science. This course is intended as an introduction to the theoretical and methodological foundations of digital philology. The aim of the course is the introduction to their critical appropriation.

KU Digital Competences (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 6 - Ägyptologie, Judaistik, Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie

Martin Baer

We will deal with the various stations from the collection and management of data in Excel, the conception and creation of a numismatic database and photography to the presentation of the material in the form of a catalogue. For this it is necessary that we familiarize ourselves thoroughly with software solutions such as MS Office (or alternatively LibreOffice/OpenOffice), Openrefine and GIMP.

Using a few examples, we will put theory into practice.

In addition, we will deal with the development of numismatics in the context of digital humanities. For this we will deal specifically with the role and function of nomisma.org and in general with the principle of "Linked Open Data".

Please attend our general preliminary meeting at the beginning of the semester on Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Institute for Numismatics and Monetary History, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190 Vienna, to get more information about our courses and study programs.

The course is planned as a face-to-face event. In the event of another lock-down, teaching will be switched to purely digital. The corresponding adjustment of the examination performances will be announced in good time.

AR Applied Data Science for Linguists (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Andreas Baumann

This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of data science with a particular focus on applications in linguistics. Data science is the study of the methods and technologies required to gain insights from data. This subsumes the analysis of data to detect patterns and relationships among interesting variables (e.g. word frequency, class and length) as well as the training and usage of statistical models to make predictions (viz. machine learning; e.g. automatically predicting the author of a text).

This course is divided into four blocks, one per month: The first part provides an introduction to data types and descriptive statistics. The second part introduces techniques from text mining and natural language processing. In the third part, we will cover basic methods of statistical inferential modeling (univariate and multivariate linear and logistic regression), which are useful to study relationships among certain properties in your data (variables/features). In the fourth and final block, we will study techniques from machine learning and predictive modeling (unsupervised and supervised). We will apply these techniques to hands-on use-cases like (automatized) word classification or sentiment analysis of texts.

In this course, we will make use of the scripting language R together with its frontend RStudio. Both are pre-installed on the computers in the lab, but you might want to install them on your own computers as well (e.g. for doing the exercises at home). You will learn how to use R as we go along. Further instructions and literature will be provided on Moodle.

This is an introductory course. As such, no previous knowledge of statistics, statistical software, machine learning or programming is required, but a solid knowledge of high school mathematics (at least Unterstufe) will prove useful (linear functions, basic arithmetic operations, fractions, percentages, probability etc.). Since this course is aimed at a linguistically trained audience, I will take knowledge of fundamental linguistic concepts for granted.

UE Data Structures and Data Modelling (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

The aim of the course is to familiarize you with basic data structures and, in particular, to learn about semantic data modeling based on requirement analyses. The focus is on practice, i.e. you should generate appropriate data models on the basis of small humanities projects and, if necessary, also implement them technically. No prior programming knowledge is required for this. Rather, you should use the project work to acquire the knowledge required for the respective project over the course of the course, which corresponds to (DH) practice anyway. The focus is on an application-oriented approach and thus also the (imaginary) user - thus different humanities disciplines. In small teams, you will develop data, structures and models that you need for this project on the basis of projects you have chosen yourself. They present requirements and solutions and finally the implementation based on the final project, which they also document in writing (see below). Data modeling also invites you to discuss empirical and theoretical framework conditions of data acquisition and processing.

UE Creating content in science - Recording and editing technology (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

Jörg Mühlhans

Students will gain insight into the technical side of creating and editing various audiovisual media and thereby learn to create content themselves with high technical standards. The scope ranges from field research to science communication and focuses essentially on formats, conventions and technical aspects, less on the content itself.

In a theoretical part (Block I) the students will be familiarized with the technical equipment (cameras, microphones, accessories and software). This is followed by a practical part (Block II), in which students work in groups to create various media themselves (podcast/audiobook, interview, video lecture/presentation/vlog, documentary…), which consists of creating a “plan/script” and the actual recording itself. The created material is reviewed and discussed, followed by another practical part (Block III), in which the students edit the recorded raw material and bring it into a publishable form.

Note: All single projects will be short versions of only a few minutes of content to keep the workload manageable.

VU Practical Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing (2023S)

10.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

In this lecture, basic machine learning algorithms are implemented in Python and applied to natural language processing problems. The focus is on vector representations of texts, and the methods range from text classification using the perceptron algorithm to word vectors and simple neural networks. Basic knowledge of Python or the willingness to acquire it quickly is assumed (the basic control and data structures, such as class definitions or dictionaries). The language of the lecture is German or English (depending on the lecturer).

SE Topics in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

In this seminar, participants will read, present and discuss recent papers on deep learning for natural language processing.

Possible topics to be covered in the seminar:

- Word vectors

- Classical Neural Network Layers

- Attention

- Pre-Trained language models

- Data Sets and Evaluation

- Probing of pre-trained language models

- Model explainability

- Language bias and learned representations

- Relation Extraction and Distant supervision

- Weak Supervision

- Ethical and security aspects of Language Models

VU Digital Entrepreneurship Innovation Lab (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 5 - Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik

This is a course on digital entrepreneurship and innovation. It is part of the Digital Entrepreneurship Innovation Lab Program: https://digital-ilab-2023.univie.ac.at/ bringing students and researchers from different disciplines together to collaborate on innovations and entrepreneurial ideas.

The goals of this course are twofold:

1 | You will learn about theoretical foundations in the fields of (digital) entrepreneurship, business models/modeling, legal & ethical issues, as well as advanced topics in data science such as deep learning and financial econometrics. In addition, you will learn about approaches to innovation, knowledge creation, and user-centered design/human-technology relations.

2 | In the second part of the course you will develop a concrete innovation project where the theoretical insights from part 1 are applied and design a first prototype.

The overarching scope of this project addresses the topic of (the future of) human-technology-relations; it is understood as an interdisciplinary challenge that is not only restricted to technological issues, but considers humanities (philosophy, social science, etc.) as a key element for being able to create sustainable innovations.

This happens in the format of an innovation atelier, in which an innovation prototype is developed in different workshop settings; The innovation process follows the approach of emergent innovation ("Learning from the future as it emerges" | Theory-U) and extends from brainstorming, research and observation processes, identification of future potentials, prototyping and selected methods of design thinking to the development and presentation of a first prototype.

In this course, state-of-the-art innovation and knowledge generation concepts and technologies are practically applied in concrete settings (e.g. making implicit assumptions explicit, understanding perception and thought patterns, theory-u/presencing, various modes of profound and qualitative/ ethnographic observation, interviews, deep knowing, exploring potential, prototyping, etc.).

Students work (individually and in innovation teams) autonomously under the guidance of the course instructors along a predefined innovation process on an innovation project; In this way they learn theoretical and practical skills and mindsets to carry out their own future-driven innovation project. The course instructors accompany the students and innovation teams as a coach/facilitator through this innovation process.

Learning outcomes:

> understanding basics of innovation and its relation to entrepreneurship

> understanding the differences between innovation approaches and their theoretical foundations with respect to change and novelty (philosophy of science, cognitive science)

> ability to develop an innovation project in an innovation team

> knowledge of group/team and communication dynamics, understanding their importance in innovation processes (in terms of socio-epistemic knowledge creation), and ability to consider and facilitate such dynamics

> basic knowledge and understanding of observation methods and strategies

> knowing why, how, and when to apply observation strategies in innovation projects

> understanding prototyping and its principles and purpose

> knowing how and when to apply prototyping strategies/methods in innovation projects

> fundamentals of human-computer interaction, human-technology interaction; its principles and design

> basics of human-centered design

> understanding of concepts: (digital) entrepreneurship, business models/modeling, legal & ethical issues, advanced topics in data science such as deep learning and financial econometrics

Target groups: This course is open to students of all majors; it is interdisciplinary and is particularly aimed at students who are interested in going through a state-of-the art innovation process and whose future field of work is in knowledge- and innovation-intensive fields/areas and or entrepreneurial/start-up contexts.

SE Seminar - History of the Digital Age (2023S)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Martin Tschiggerl

This course takes a look at digitization as a fundamental reorganization of human culture through digital media and practices and explores the question of whether something like the "digital age" even exists and - if so - what its epochal signature could be.

SE Digital perspectives on cultural and textual studies (2023S)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 42 - Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Doktoratsstudium

The course provides an overview of the role of digital approaches in contemporary cultural and textual studies and the new possibilities they offer. The key topics of the course will concern knowledge representation in the humanities distant reading and cultural analytics, big data and smart data in the humanities. The course will involve reading and discussion of papers, exploration of online resources and analysis of methodological issues.

PS Linguistics: Linguistic theories (2023S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 10 - Deutsche Philologie

Claudia Resch

Newspapers are a relevant research subject for numerous disciplines. The fact that they are already widely available today in the form of digital corpora is changing the way in which we can search and research newspapers.

After fundamental considerations as to which factors complicate or limit the creation of (historical) newspaper data, students first get to know several digital newspaper corpora, which are to be compared with one another on the basis of key questions (including full-text quality, query language, presentation of results). Subsequently, the students are supported in testing some of the presented corpora themselves with regard to exemplary linguistic questions.

After this basic induction phase, the students define a topic for their presentations - depending on their interests and in consultation with the course instructor - and formulate specific research questions that are to be answered in a corpus-based manner over the course of the semester. In the written work, the contents presented orally are to be deepened and explained in detail.

By acquiring theoretical knowledge and practical skills in dealing with newspaper corpora, students gain insight into current corpus-based research on (historical) newspapers, they expand their inventory of methods and thus lay the foundation for linguistic research with newspaper data.

Note: Students who take this course as part of the "Digital Humanities" master's program can also work on a textual or cultural studies question instead of a linguistic topic.

KU New Media in Historical Science and Political Education (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Alois Ecker

Aims: develop understanding and competence in dealing with digital media in courses of history and/or citizenship education. critical discussion on the impact of digital media in historical learning a/o citizenship education.

Content: Theoretical inputs to theory of media in the digital age; Getting acquainted with actual digital tools for historical learning in classroom, e.g. WebQuest, mind maps, blogs, polls, learning apps, audio-tools; organization of notebook-courses, flipped classroom.

Historical narratives will be discussed a/o developed on the example of protest movements since the industrial revolution (labour movements, women's liberation, human rights movement in 1960ies, peace movements in 1960ies and 1970ies, environmental protection movm. from 1980ies until today, anti-racist-movements).

methodology: presentations, group work, portfolio, evaluation and reflection of tasks. blended learning; learning platform: Moodle.

UE Methodological course - Digital Methods and Means for Historical Studies (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

As part of the course, methods and tools of Digital Humanities (DH) are presented and their applicability in historical studies is checked. Students are guided to expand their inventory of methods and their skills in using digital tools.

Based on exemplary research questions, it is worked out whether and how research, processing, analysis, presentation and archiving of historical text sources can be facilitated by using proven tools and standards. The students gain insight into the variety of digital research practices, identify concrete application scenarios and sharpen their judgment with regard to their practical applicability in historical sciences.

The course is held in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Method: Input from the course management, application-oriented work assignments on the computer, accompanying specialist reading, reflection and discussions in the plenum, keynote speeches and a written final test.

Only freely available, free tools are used in the course.

No programming knowledge is required!

You will need your own laptop for the practical applications.

UE Course: Contemporary collections. From acquisition to the digital object (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie

Marie-Therese Hochwartner

Together with the students, the course discusses collection-related documentation and presentation processes and their impact on the public positioning of a museum. The starting point are new additions to the mumok collection from recent years, their presentation in the exhibition space and in mumok’s digital channels. In terms of content, we span the spectrum from international standards in museum collection management and tendencies of citizen humanities in museum basic research to the strategic use of the museum homepage to present the collections. Questions that we will pursue in the course are, for example: What types of access are there and what effects do they possibly have on the documentation? What measures can and must be taken to keep collections and research up-to-date, available and participatory? What formal criteria are used when creating collection-related content? By discussing basic texts, presenting case studies and expert discussions, we discuss practical workflows and legal requirements for collection-related processes and use them to test the possibilities of setting the focus and the production of individual (digital) content.

PS Computational literary studies: Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.

The aim of the proseminar is to give an introduction to the digital humanities and digital literary studies using the example of digital text editions. The basics of digital edition science and the handling of X-technologies (XML, XPath, XSLT) are conveyed in the context of lectures, joint exercises and presentations. Technical knowledge is not required. From the ground up, it will deal with topics such as machine readability, text recognition processes, meta and authority data, data types, search queries, digital tools and databases. The guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), which have developed into a standard in the digital humanities in recent years and form the basis of various digital editions, will be central.

EX Field Trip - The authenticity of the space - Berlin as a digital and analogue place (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

In times of global digital networking and an "electronic society of presence", questions about the political and cultural significance of space are increasingly coming to the fore. "Space" as a community-building construct does not have to be rethought only after the experiences of the corona pandemic.

The excursion in Berlin offers students (especially students of the subject) the opportunity to try out different didactic formats of research and communication of information, the (re)definition of historically relevant sources for later professional practice. Here, it is critically examined which meanings can be assigned to the analog and digital places that can be given meanings (for teaching, science, politics, the past, etc.) as a construction of "Berlin".

With regard to COVID-19, the regulations and measures of the local authorities, institutions and organizations must be observed and followed at all times (distance regulations, compulsory masks, hand disinfection, etc.). The locally applicable rules are observed, otherwise disregard may result in the person concerned being excluded from parts of the course. Accommodation in single rooms. All necessary meeting points and meetings take place either virtually (e.g. via a Whats App group or Moodle), outdoors or immediately afterwards. Smaller groups are organized for guided tours or, where possible, guided at different times. A larger distribution should also be ensured when traveling to and from the excursion destinations. Personal responsibility is encouraged when organizing leisure time. In order to enable fast contact tracing, data sheets with contact details are collected. The students are also encouraged to keep an excursion diary, in which they should record at what times and with which colleagues they were at which locations (e.g. dinners together, etc.) or had long conversations. If a case of infection becomes known during the excursion, the information chain will be set in motion, which will isolate the affected person and enable an orderly return journey (also through previously taken out insurance). If participation on site is not possible for medical reasons or other reasons related to the pandemic, the instruction videos provided can be used as a substitute.

VU Human-Computer-Interaction (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 5 - Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik

Human-Computer Interaction, Human-centered design, usability engineering, universal access, basics of cognitive psychology, motivation, and communication psychology, app programming.

Students are able to design and develop interactive user interfaces that are evaluated by users as usable and interactions are experienced as positive. They can learn and apply digital tools collaboratively and implement them in teams in different contexts. They work on small app development projects that encompass the entire Human Centered Design process. Other methods of design, such as Participatory Design, Inclusive Design will be discussed in contrast. Students will be able to evaluate human-computer interfaces and learn to critically engage with the implications of these technologies. The theories learned will be applied in practice through the development of apps, which will enable students to meet the diverse challenges of digitalization.

SE Bachelorseminar in Human Geography (2023S)

People on the Move

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

Simon Alexander Bunchuay-Peth

People on the move - migration theories, migration processes, and the role of mobility in a globalised world.

In this seminar we will deal with the diversity of human mobility and the complexity of migration processes. In the first part of the seminar we will get to know different migration theories and the approach of the New Mobilities Paradigm (literature work) and in the second part we will work out the wide range of human mobility and migration on the basis of thematic examples (presentations by students). Since the beginning of mankind, migration has been one of the most important driving forces of social developments and innovations. Over the millennia, very diverse forms of human mobility have developed. Thus, migration not only takes place on the continuum between voluntariness and involuntariness (migration vs. flight), but also temporal, social, cultural, political and economic dimensions play a crucial role here. Whether digital nomads, seafarers, truck drivers, travelling peoples, labour migration, war refugees, transhumance, pastoralism, seasonal migration, sea nomads, so-called 'expats', etc., the range of human mobility is very wide. In this seminar we will take a closer look and explore this complexity of migration processes and human mobility.

Aims of the course:

- The participants know different migration theories and are able to critically reflect on them.

- The participants have dealt with a thematic case study in depth, built up and expanded their initial expertise in the field of migration research and can reflect critically on migration studies.

- The participants were able to gain experience in scientific presenting.

- The participants have gained first experience in academic writing and in writing a seminar paper.

VU Human-Computer-Interaction for non-CS-Students (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 5 - Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik

Human-Computer Interaction, Human-centered design, usability engineering, universal access, basics of cognitive psychology, motivation, and communication psychology, app programming.

Note: This version of the course is for non-CS students. Previous knowledge in CS is not necessary. Classes and projects will be joined with the regular HCI course for CS students.

KO Critical Media Analysis (2023S)

Feminist Food Politics - Food and Its Role in Feminist Movements from the Suffragettes to Digital Climate Activism

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Elisabeth Lechner

Food has played an important, yet often overlooked role in feminist movements. Inspired by the well-known feminist adage "We don’t want a bigger slice of pie, we want the whole bakery!", in this class we will analyse feminist assemblages around food in its material culture sense, the discourses around it as well as its representations in different media. We will talk about feminists and their affective relations to food, its production, distribution and consumption, asking about power relations and the ways it influenced and continues to influence feminist activisms from the suffragettes and second wavers to digital activists like @thesweetfeminist, who engages in mediatised forms of radical baking (sharing photos of motto cakes with slogans like "abortion isn’t a bad word" or "let’s unlearn white feminism together"on Instagram).

After the successful completion of this course, students will be able to critically examine the representation of food (as well as its production, distribution and consumption) in Anglophone feminist movements from the 1900s until today, as they will have learned how to appropriately use a toolbox of genre-specific methods of cultural analysis (e.g. semiotic analysis, mis-en-scène analysis for moving images, uncovering contradictory positionings with the help of broader sociopolitical context.

Our class will deal with questions like: Which foodstuffs, apart from sugar, feature most prominently in feminist activism? Why? What do they signify? What role do approaches like agroecology or notions like the commons (see Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, Federici 2019), of communally taking care of land and communities, play in feminist movements, feminist food politics and lived foodways? What about the relationship between feminism and vegetarianism/veganism and a politics of no harm, reconnecting with earth in more-than-human relations? What are - and were - the implications of celebrities’ eating habits, as they are "our most visible and binding embodiments of ideology at work", as Petersen (xiii) so nicely puts it?

Based on our class readings, students will learn how to notice and scrutinise cultural markers of difference like race, gender, class, sexuality, body type, ability/health, and age in a variety of different media and online contexts. By introducing students to key texts in gender, media and cultural studies and providing them with a toolkit for cultural analysis, students will be able to discuss the role of food in feminist movements in an informed, intersectional way after they have completed this class.

VO Social Science Ethics II - Social ethics, human rights and economic and media ethics (2023S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 1 - Katholische Theologie

Alexander Filipovic

The lecture complements the lecture "Social Ethics I". In the area of basic social ethics, it concentrates on social theoretical aspects and the normative orientations of human rights, sustainability and just participation. In the area of the contexts of Christian social ethics, the focus is on politics, economics and technology/digitality. The topics of social ethics are likely to be media, religions/freedom of religion, migration/world poverty and war/conflicts/peace.

UE Exercise Course: editorial philology (2023S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 10 - Deutsche Philologie

Bernhard Fetz

Knowledge of the theory and practice of (digital) editions is imparted using the example of ongoing and completed edition projects in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library and using as yet unpublished materials from its holdings. Practical exercises on commenting on letters and autobiographical types of text, on the digital labeling of texts using the TEI edition standard or on the history of the origin of poems are on the program, as well as the presentation of edition platforms and the discussion of texts on edition philology. The aim of the course is to provide an insight into the possibilities and limits of the digital humanities using the example of primarily digital editions.

SE Master's Thesis Seminar (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

This course is intended for students preparing MA or PhD theses on topics in, or closely connected with, the Digital Humanities.

UE Historical Sources, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Theresa Adamski

Content: Introduction to various methods of historical studies: discourse analysis, qualitative content analysis, media analysis, statistics, digital humanities. Working with different types of sources with a focus on gender-historical issues (19th and 20th centuries): newspapers and magazines, church registers, legal texts and other normative sources, literary texts, personal testimonies, ....

During the course, the students acquire the following skills: Basic knowledge of various historical methods and their possible areas of application; Experience in processing different types of sources with the help of the presented methods; Source research and source criticism.

Methods: Lecture, close reading, group work, research exercises, source exercises, "expert" contributions, feedback.

UE Methodological course - Introduction to DH Tools and Methods (Skills I) (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

The correct handling of data is at the heart of the Digital Humanities. Practical skills – from data cleaning to data analysis and visualization – are the prerequisite for independent work in the field as well as the basis for an informed dialogue with professional data scientists and software developers. The course will introduce students to the basics of the Python programming language and its most important libraries, thereby leading them towards their use for their own projects. – No previous programming skills are required. Courses will be held in a hybrid mode, and all students are asked to bring their own laptops (no tablets).

This class is supported by Datacamp (https://www.datacamp.com/) for Python programming and introductory data management exercises.

KU Methods of Historical Research and Writing (2023S)

7.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Alexander Pinwinkler

The cross-epoch course gives an overview of those techniques that represent the basis for historical work. It offers an introduction to professional methods as well as to general skills in the subject. With this in mind, she practices with the participants researching and evaluating the content of historical primary and secondary literature, dealing critically with selected historical sources from different historical periods, and the ability to write small and medium-sized historical studies. Particular attention is paid to imparting skills in the field of digital work techniques: The students are trained in handling online resources and made aware of the methodological problems associated with them.

The schedule shows that the course covers all teaching and learning content that the curriculum for an introductory event on the historical working techniques of the Bachelor's degree contains: the formulation of a historical scientific question, the learning of forms of argumentation and a scientific discussion culture, strategies and sources of information - and literature research, possibilities of information organization and management, citation rules, the reflective handling of historical sources, competencies in the field of "digital humanities" as well as the writing of written papers and the presentation of a lecture.

PS BA-Proseminar - Economic and Social History (2023S)

Quantitative Economic History

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Clemens Jobst

Historians have always used a wide range of methods to read and analyze the diverse material that the past has left us. With the ongoing digitization of a large number of historical sources, computer-aided quantitative methods have regained importance as part of the "digital humanities" in recent years. The aim of the proseminar is to provide students with the necessary skills to understand and carry out quantitative historical analyzes themselves.

Due to the central role of data and their processing in science, there is an increasing demand in the sense of replicability to publish not only the underlying data but also the program code with which the results presented in the article were achieved together with a scientific article. For the proseminar, this allows us to work with real research data and "recreate" published research results or to further develop and supplement them with our own questions. To do this, we will use publications from recent years on a wide range of economic and socio-historical issues, such as the life expectancy of the elites in pre-modern Europe, the expansion of voting rights in the 19th century, the economic fate of migrants overseas, intergenerational mobility, or the context between austerity policies and the rise of the NSDAP in the 1930s.

After the joint analysis of a series of research contributions, the participants then have the task of reproducing a paper themselves for the proseminar work and supplementing it with their own questions and analyses.

There are no specific requirements to attend the proseminar. However, basic statistical knowledge is recommended, such as that taught in the guided reading "Quantiative Economic History" in winter semester 2022 or other introductory social science courses. The programming language R is used in the seminar. R is open-source, relatively easy to learn and, alongside Python, the most important language used in the digital humanities. Previous knowledge of R is not necessary for the proseminar, but the willingness to learn R is expected. The language of instruction is German, the articles discussed are all in English.

VO EC Developmental Psychology II (2023S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie

Tina Eckstein-Madry

Considering conventional and recent developmental theories, the lecture conveys milestones in the individual development of human beings. The students acquire knowledge of the most important developmental phenomena in human life, e.g., antenatal/postnatal development, cognitive and socio-cognitive development, as well as developmental disorders. Furthermore, research methods in developmental science are presented.

The lecture takes place digitally: The lectures are recorded and available in Moodle for each week, which the students can access from the lecture date onwards.

KO Konversatorium (Advanced Exercise Class) Medieval and Early German Literature (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 10 - Deutsche Philologie

Beatrice von Lüpke

Medieval works are not handed down in the form of authoritatively certified books, but in manuscripts. If the corresponding work has been handed down several times, these differ considerably in their layout and in the wording of the text. In this respect, it has always been a priority task of German Medieval Studies, on the one hand to depict this variety of transmissions in text editions and on the other hand to create a more or less strongly normalized and, if necessary, corrected reference text from the manuscripts. In recent years, the digital humanities have opened up new possibilities in this field, which in turn have triggered discussions about the sustainability of user interfaces. To ensure that Middle High German literature is read, and can even be read and understood, many editions also add a linguistic, factual and literary-historical commentary to the text, the different layout and focus of which can also be an occasion for discussion.

The aim of the conversation is to get into conversation about these and many other aspects of the appropriate and contemporary processing of medieval literature. The students should also transcribe and comment on smaller texts themselves. During the semester, employees of the current edition projects "Lyrics of the German Middle Ages" and "Narrative mediation of religious knowledge. Edition and commentary on sacred verse and prose texts from the 13th to the 16th century” give an insight into their work.

SE Document-analysis: A practice-oriented approach (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie

Kristin Asdal

Documents are everywhere. Whether physical or digital, large or small, loud or invisible, they permeate our societies and individual lives, past and present. Some documents are outright celebrities, such as the UN Assessment Reports on Climate Change; others, such as passports, can open doors and borders or keep them shut if yours is not accepted. Indeed, documents quickly pile up as empirical materials in our own research projects. So how to make use of this rich resource? How to analyze documents as part of your Master’s degree?

This course brings together a varied set of methodological approaches to demonstrate and discuss how we can analyze documents as both text, artifact and social practice. Building on a recently published textbook, the course introduces the method of ‘practice-oriented document analysis’ (Asdal & Reinertsen, SAGE Publishing, 2022).

During the course, we will work on the methodological moves developed in this book for analyzing and working with documents: How documents can be approached as sites, how they can be analyzed as tools, how we can examine ‘document work’ and ‘document texts’, how documents are involved in the making of societal issues, and what we can learn from analyzing how documents move. We will draw from a rich source of document studies in STS and across the humanities and social sciences more broadly, and also introduce you to the theoretical underpinnings that have inspired the practice-orientation to documents.

Learning outcome

Become familiar with analyzing documents as your research material.

Become familiar with the practice-oriented method for analyzing documents.

Be able to investigate both physical and digital documents.

Learn how documents can be made visible and worked upon in combination with other forms of empirical material.

Become familiar with a rich international literature about documents across the humanities and social sciences.

Be trained in writing your Master’s with documents as your research material.

VU B620 Society: WohnWissen übersetzen (2023S)

Emancipatory Forms of Living from Modernity to Today.

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie

The course aims to trace the sensory experience acquired through the use of audio-visual recording technologies that have been transforming our everyday lives. Recognizing the agency of both human and non-human actors in this relationship, we will revisit the history of media technologies while focusing on their performative capacities, and their effects on the human body, senses, and emotions. Media technologies will be approached as an extension of the embodied subject with its racial, gendered, and socio-economic issues.

Theoretical approaches to embodiment and audio-visual technologies will be drawn from film, media and cultural studies, sensory ethnography, and post-humanism. The practical aim of the course is to conduct research on our daily lives under the influence of digital media technologies -especially under the conditions of the pandemic. Students are encouraged to imagine their online classes as a field of ethnographic interrogation and cultural analysis and expected to create a (multi)media project which could be an ethnographic film, sound work, video or photographic essay. Experimentation with media is welcome!

No previous skills in audio-visual media production are required. The basics will be taught. We will embrace a Do-it-yourself approach and work with the tools we have at our disposal.

The language of the lecture is English. However, students are welcome to conduct their projects in German.

SE Master's Thesis Seminar (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Christina Lutter

The master's seminar serves to present and discuss ongoing master's theses, diploma theses and dissertations. Participants must already have an assigned/chosen topic in order to attend the event. In terms of content, this should also be in the area of European cultural, social and gender history (approx. 1100-1600). Preparatory readings for all participants, presentations by the speakers and subsequent joint discussions are intended to introduce the topics and then discuss them more broadly.

SE Seminar on Designing Inclusive Educational Processes (2023S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 49 - Lehrer*innenbildung

Marie-Monique Schaper

Contents:

The agenda of Computational Empowerment points towards the need for inclusive approaches for supporting all students in learning about the development of digital literacy. In this context, previous research has shown that particularly underrepresented groups such as students with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds and young women benefit less from educational initiatives in this field. The seminar focuses on conveying concrete strategies for involving underrepresented student groups in critical and reflective learning processes about emerging technologies. One particular emphasis of the seminar lies on scaffolding participants‘ reflective practices about the potential risks in the development and application of emerging technologies in relation to the target group (e.g. the marginalization through algorithmic bias within a digital society).

As an introduction to the theme, the participants will first explore different technologies (z.B. Scratch, Teachable Machine, Dance with AI) and discuss their potential risks for underrepresented target groups. Further, through hands-on tasks and literature, the participants will focus on application opportunities of these technologies in the classroom and educational principles to design learning activities with and about them. The final goal of the seminar is the conceptual development of an exemplary project week focusing on the theme Human vs. Algorithmic Bias. Through participatory design methods and peer-feedback, the participants will put their proposals into practice, evaluate and iterate on them.

SE Education as an Academic Discipline (2023S)

Medien und Bildung

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 19 - Bildungswissenschaft

The aim of the study programme is to impart the ability to do independent scientific work and to analyse problems independently, as well as knowledge of the special features, limits, terminologies and doctrinal opinions of educational science.

We support you in acquiring the ability to independently produce a scientifically justified position on a doctrinal opinion in educational science with a text-analytical method in the seminar. The discussion of the special features and limits of educational science on the basis of selected texts contributes to this as much as the individual counselling and accompaniment of the production process.

The focus is on texts on the media education field of media education, in which, for example, digital humanism, identity formation, media power and media competence are addressed.

VO Heritage and Hybridity (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie

This lecture takes as a premise that all heritage is hybrid. There is no simplicity nor purity in the material culture and landmarks constructed over time as "heritage". The methods, which will be employed in this lecture will include, among others, post-colonial and gender studies. We will trace back the ways in which power structures, as well as human and non-human agencies impact the production, preservation, and hybridization of heritage. From this perspective, we will analyze paintings, engravings, architecture and spaces, in order to examine their origins and trajectories over time.

The first part of the lecture will focus on early modern times, considering, for instance, objects, such as African Ivory salt cellars or featherworks. Also, early collections, such as the one established at the Ambras Castle, or buildings such as the castle of Schönbrunn in Vienna as places of hybridity will be discussed. How were European identities imagined and portrayed in relation to the rest of the world, including, for instance, Ottoman identities? How did Asian objects and techniques become paradigmatic for French culture? Moreover, w e will consider 19th century displays and the discipline of anthropology in a broader history of representation and exhibition. Through the participation of guest speakers, coming from different fields, including museums and digital humanities, the second part of the lecture will problematize the contemporary histories of conservation, provenance, and restitution. Please note that some sensitive material will be discussed during this lecture , in particular connected to the history of slavery, colonization, and the afterlife of human remains.

VO Introduction to Systematic Musicology (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Jörg Mühlhans

The aim of the course is to gain basics knowledge of systematic musicology, get to know its fields of research and learn the common research methods.

The lecture consists of two thematic blocks. In the first block (acoustics), the physics of sound generation and propagation are discussed, a historical overview of acoustic research from Plato to the present day is given, and the variety of acoustic disciplines is presented, with a particular focus on musical acoustics.

In the second block (perception), physiology and function of the human auditory system and two major areas of research on musical perception will be discussed: psychoacoustics (as a subfield of psychophysiology) and music psychology (as a subfield of empirical research in general).

The course will be held virtually via Moodle platform, with some units being theoretically and some consisting of practical demonstrations of experiments and measurements. For the most part, units will be held live at lecture time, but there may changes announced via moodle.

PR Field Class in Physical Geography for Teacher Candidates (2023S)

1.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

Ronald Pöppl

Aim of this course is to analyze the landscape-ecosystem of a particular research area and to distinguish and describe occurring interactions within this system. This should be done with the help of maps, areal images, literature, mapping in the field, simple calculations and a concluding discussion of the results.

Landscape-ecology examines processes and interactions between (abiotic) geofactors and organisms of a landscape. The human-environment interactions, which describes the anthropogenic overprint or change of natural ecosystems, ecosystem-compartments and (geo-) ecosystemic interactions therefore play a decisive role in theoretical and applied landscape-ecology. The assessment, characterization and analysis of landscape compartments (=subsystems) are as well an important part of work in this discipline.

On one field day simple methods for an assessment of the compartments relief, climate, hydrology, soil, vegetation and land-use are introduced and will be applied in small groups.

This course consists of one compulsory and one optional field-day. Following theoretical input and practical instructions, a landscape-ecological case study should independently be worked out, discussed and presented.

AR Individual Focus Modul (2023S)

Verbal and Nonverbal Markers of Persuasion in American media dating culture

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Oleksandra Romaniuk

First impressions serve as a basis for initiating relationships that aid potential dates in communicating emotions, conveying feelings, and signalling attraction. First-date communication expectations regarding courtship behaviour usually include gender-related and cultural preferences. Unacquainted strangers, when they first meet a romantic interest, are in a state of tension dealing with uncertainty and novelty. But how would our life be different if we knew what to say and what to do when we meet someone for the first time and we do want to stand out by leaving a good impression on them? And what factors influence a potential date’s choice in face-to-face romantic encounters? These questions have been of interest to researchers across disciplines and have received significant empirical attention in the past few decades. Therefore, during the course, we will discuss diverse physiological, psychological, and behavioural markers that come into play when making the first impression. Specifically, we will examine the effect of cultural and gender preferences, word choices, vocal cues, facial expressions, eye behaviour, posture, gestures, and touching behaviour on intimate communication through the lens of digital methods. Thus, the course seeks to entwine Interactional Sociolinguistics and Digital Humanities.

As such, the first part of the course draws on Interactional Sociolinguistics (i.e., an approach to discourse analysis that studies how people use language in face-to-face interaction) and Digital Methods of conducting sociolinguistic research. Please, note that the emphasis of the course is on applying Interactional Sociolinguistics to “real” data. We will learn how to perform qualitative content and quantitative data analyses based on video clips drawn from face-to-face romantic encounters depicted on the American dating and relationship reality TV series “The Bachelor US” and its gender-reversed version “The Bachelorette US”. We will focus not only on linguistic forms such as words and sentences but also on subtle contextualization cues that are culturally specific and usually unconscious.

There will be also an important element of the course aimed at overviewing social and cultural norms, gender stereotypes as well as (non)verbal behaviours in the contemporary context of flirtation, courtship, and seduction. This is the Specialist Task where you are also invited to contribute to a better understanding of mediated depictions of gender, intimacy, and first impression scripts by finding and sharing video clips (around 30 seconds of initial interaction each) from any reality dating show. You will be assigned to perform line-by-line coding to define verbal cues within every spoken conversational exchange and analyse them by using newly-acquired digital skills. Given that this is a complex and time-consuming process, please, take this into account before you decide to register for the course. This Specialist Task accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation is aimed at providing the basis for a group discussion. Every student in the class should participate actively in these group discussions on a weekly basis.

Within the second part of the course, we will discuss the influence of the communication environment (lighting, colour schemes, sound, design, furniture, manipulating objects, etc.) and communicators’ physical characteristics (e.g., physical attractiveness, body type, height, human odour, skin colour, hair, clothes, incl. red dress effect, and artefacts) on the way we feel and the way we choose to communicate Given that the consumers’ dependence on media content is widely acknowledged, we will also analyse their perception of first impression scripts portrayed on reality dating shows and framed by persuasive courtship behaviours “Viewers' involvement: learning or entertainment: analysing the content of social media followers’ comments".

You do not need to have any prior knowledge to attend the course.

UE Methodological Course - Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Historical Sciences (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Franz Eder

The methods course introduces the design of historical research and research processes as well as questions of theoretical access, methodology and the use of methods. The aim of the course is to provide an overview of quantitative and qualitative methods in historical studies, their theoretical justification and their areas of application, their potential and limits. Experts for the respective method design individual units by means of presentations and discussions with the participants.

VU Data Ethics and Legal Issues (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 5 - Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik

The first part will cover the following ethical issues by means of lectures with discussion:

* Introduction to ethics of AI & data science + narratives about AI

* Privacy and digital labor + future of work

* Responsibility and explainability + Bias/fairness

* Climate and environment: Opportunities and ethical problems

The second part will bridge to the more practical/empirical and political-social aspects and include the following topics:

* Critical Data and Algorithm Studies, how to reflect data practices, abrief introduction to Science and Technology Studies (STS)

* Everyday surveillance, human sensors

* Hands-on project: experimenting with data / ML: Training ML, data sets, open data (for DH Students, we can tailor this to specific interests)

* Presentation of project findings and discussion

The third part will cover legal issues on:

* Introduction into the legal system in Europe and Austria / legal resources

* Introduction to European data protection and data security law

* Introduction to intellectual property law, in particular copyright, licenses, and text and data mining

* Recent trends, in particular Digital Services Act and Artificial Intelligence Act

In the fourth part, we will be building on the introduction to legal basics outlined above. The course will provide a detailed overview of the most commonly encountered legal issues in DH projects.

* Example case studies - legal issues with source material:

- Copyright on primary texts

- Copyright on images (works of art)

- Data privacy issues with photographs

- Data privacy issues with diaries & letters

- Orphan works

* Example case studies - legal issues with research data:

- Ownership of scans

- Ownership of raw data; ownership of processed data

- Copyright on (scholarly) editions

- Ownership of scans

- Ownership of research output (e.g. papers)

- Ownership of code

- Research data about living persons and data privacy

- Non-research data about living persons and data privacy

In addition, the course will introduce a number of tools developed and infrastructure maintained by the DH community to tackle these issues (e.g. License Selector, Consent Form Wizard). Students will learn about the most important research infrastructures in the field of DH (CLARIN, DARIAH) and their working groups on legal and ethical issues (CLIC, ELDAH). Additionally, the relevance of the legal framework in which we conduct our research and its consequences for the implementation of Open Science approaches will be discussed.

UE Eat, Sleep, Love. Carnality in Media (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 17 - Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft

Joanna Lapinska

Carnality is a topic that has always been present in the media to a greater or lesser extent. Carnality in cultural texts, especially in cinema, has many facets, however, it is never neutral. Vivian Sobchack in her book “Carnal Thoughts” points out that whether we are watching a film, or just thinking about the mysteries of moving pictures, cultural forms, and the meanings and values that guide our lives, we make conscious sense from our carnal senses. In contemporary humanities, the affective turn, posthuman theories, and theories on (un)mediatized intimacy take as their starting point precisely the body and its senses, and what it is capable of.

In contemporary media, carnality has many names; each of them shimmers with different shades. In the most neutral sense, “carnality” indicates something related to the body, flesh, physicality. What is “carnal,” however, still remains especially related to the sexual appetites and desires. Yet it also carries broader associations: with materiality, vitality, tangibility, as well as something temporary and vulnerable.

During the course we will inspect how bodily practices are portrayed in the media. We will analyze media representations of the carnal activities: sleeping, eating, defecating, having sexual intercourse. We will inspect how representations of carnality on screen can be approached using various philosophical and cultural theories. The course will also address digital embodiments in media spaces to provide examples of protocols of non-traditional perceptions of carnality.

SE Advanced Seminar: Mind and Brain (2023S)

Introduction to Computational Social Sciences

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie

Mauricio Martins

In this course students will learn how to use natural language processing tools to automatically analyze the content of large numbers of texts. After this course students will be able to perform sentiment analyses of modern textual sources from the internet but also of historical sources such as fiction work (movies and books) from the past. Students will be able to quantify the temporal change of values and preferences expressed in these textual sources and its relationship to historical events and socio-economic dynamics. BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF PYTHON AND R are highly recommended.

SE Master's Thesis Seminar (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Franz Eder

The seminar serves to supervise master’s theses and dissertations as well as the in-depth examination of theories and methods that are required for writing them. In the course of the seminar, presentations including comments and discussions of the master's theses and dissertations will take place.

Courses 2018-2019 Winter semester

Introduction to the Digital Humanities

5.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lehrerin: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Aims, contents and method of the course

What is (or are) the Digital Humanities? What relevance do digital methods have for research in the different humanistic disciplines? What does it mean to "do digital humanities"? This course is an introduction and overview of the field of Digital Humanities, intended for students of the Master's degree in History. We will cover the history of the field to the present day, and take a closer look at the relationship between computational analysis, humanistic theory, and hermeneutics. We will also touch on more practical aspects of the digital humanities such as the representation of cultural artifacts, and particularly texts, within the digital domain. By the end of the course students should have a good understanding of how we formalize and model concepts from the humanistic disciplines into the digital domain, and will be aware of the plethora of further hands-on training opportunities in Digital Humanities tools and techniques across Austria, Europe, and the rest of the world.

Working with Digital Data for Historians

10.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lehrerin: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Aims, contents and method of the course

The groundwork of almost any digital humanities project is laid through the collection and organisation of the data that will be studied. This might be texts, images, spreadsheets, or any other collection of information and resources. This project class provides a hands-on introduction to the management, organization, and modeling of the digital data we collect. The lessons will cover how to process and access flat-file formats such as Excel and CSV, how to build tabular data up into a relational database, alternative database solutions such as XML databases for projects that make heavy use of XML encodings such as that of the TEI, and data storage and modeling with the use of graph databases.

Digital Humanities: Theory and Concepts in the Digital Humanities

5.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lehrerin: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course is a complement to the VO Master Lecture in Digital Humanities. We will read and discuss works that allow us to gain a more in-depth understanding of the intellectual background and theoretical underpinnings of DH methodology.

Advanced use of GIS in historical research

6.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lehrerin: Maria Vargha, MA MA

Aims, contents and method of the course

The present course aims to give an insight to the advanced use of Geographical Information Systems primarily, but not exclusively, in the field of historical research and provide the students with useful, hands-on experience and knowledge that they can use in their further studies and work.
Although historical geography is a traditional part of the discipline of history, the use of GIS are not restricted to this subject. Due to the versatile application of GIS in historical research its use has been growing. GIS makes it possible, to add a spatial reference to any kind of historical problem, and with that, it opens new possibilities for research, both in terms of opening new questions, and providing more data to be analysed in more ways.The present course is the continuation of the course '070329-1 KU Course (2017S) Introduction to the use of GIS in historical research', where the visualisation of (historical) data has been in the focus of the course. In this second stage, the intention of this course is to involve students deeper in the use of these applications, and with that, broader the potential in their own research, by learning to analyze the visualised data. During that, the students will be introduced to several methods for vector and raster analysis - their practical know-how, and also their potential use in (historical) research.
The course will be built up of both theoretical and practical classes. Students will be expected to develop their own term project in the form of diverse GIS maps, which will be presented at the end of the term.

Courses for 2017-2018 Winter semester

Introduction to the Digital Humanities

5.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Aims, contents and method of the course

What is (or are) the Digital Humanities? What relevance do digital methods have for research in the different humanistic disciplines? What does it mean to do digital humanities? This course is an introduction and overview of the field of Digital Humanities, intended for students of the Masters degree in History. We will cover the history of the field to the present day, and take a closer look at the relationship between computational analysis, humanistic theory, and hermeneutics. We will also touch on more practical aspects of the digital humanities such as the representation of cultural artifacts, and particularly texts, within the digital domain. By the end of the course students should have a good understanding of how we formalize and model concepts from the humanistic disciplines into the digital domain, and will be aware of the plethora of further hands-on training opportunities in Digital Humanities tools and techniques across Austria, Europe, and the rest of the world.

Digital Humanities Theory and Method

5.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course is a complement to the VO Schwerpunkt Digital Humanities. We will read and discuss works that allow us to gain a more in-depth understanding of the intellectual background and theoretical underpinnings of DH methodology.

DH Methods: Historical Inquiries with R

10.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lecturer: Maxim Romanov, PhD

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course will offer a practical introduction into R programming language, which is currently one of the most popular choices of humanists interested in investigating humanities problems with computational methods. Following the general introduction, the course will cover a series of cases of how one can analyze textual, historical and spatial data with statistics-based and visual methods.

Advanced use of GIS in historical research

10.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lecturer: Maria Vargha, MA MA

Aims, contents and method of the course

Courses 2017-2018 Summer Semester

Tools and Techniques for Digital Humanities

3.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lecturer: Maxim Romanov, PhD

Aims, contents and method of the course

Introduction to the use of GIS in historical research

3.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Lecturer: Mária Vargha, MA MA

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the basic principles and practices of diverse Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Although historical geography is a traditional part of the discipline of history, the use of GIS are not restricted to this subject. Due to the versatile application of GIS in historical research its use has been growing. GIS makes it possible, to add a spatial reference to any kind of historical problem, and with that, it opens new possibilities for research, both in terms of opening new questions, and providing more data to be analysed in more ways. The intention of this course is to involve students in the use of these applications, and with that, broader the potential in their own research. At the first stage the course focuses on developing practical skills on the visualization of data and diverse historical processes. During that, the students will be introduced to open source programs, and free datasets that can be of their assistance. The course will be built up of both theoretical and practical classes. Students will be expected to develop their own term project in the form of diverse GIS maps, which will be presented at the end of the term.

Courses for 2016-2017 Summer Semester

Computational Background Skills for Digital Humanities

Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Continuous assessment of course work

This course is intended to provide basic training and support for further skills courses in the Digital Humanities. It is strongly recommended as a prerequisite to the other DH practical courses, and is scheduled to allow completion before the other courses begin.

Aims, contents and method of the course

- Introduction to the command line
- Introduction to file formats and filesystems
- Solving the mystery of special characters
- Understanding how the Internet works behind the browser
- Things you ought to know about your (Mac / Windows / Linux) operating system
- Where to go for help and how to understand the answers

Tools and Techniques for Digital Humanities

3.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Aims, contents and method of the course

The class will introduce the students to a variety of software tools and methods used in the Digital Humanities, primarily using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is expected, but students who have not use the command line before are strongly advised to complete Method Workshop 070280 first!

Management of Digital Research Data

3.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L. Andrews

Aims, contents and method of the course

The first stage of almost any digital humanities project is to collect and organize the data that will be studied; this might be texts, images, spreadsheets, or any other collection of information and resources. In this class we will focus on the management, organization, and modeling of the digital data we collect. The lessons will cover how to process and access flat-file formats such as Excel and CSV, how to build tabular data up into a relational database, alternative database solutions such as XML databases for projects that make heavy use of XML encodings such as that of the TEI, and data storage and modeling with the use of graph databases.

Introduction to the use of GIS in historical research

3.00 ECTS, SPL 7 - Geschichte

Instructor: MA MA Mária Vargha