How can we do research on virtual reality (VR) experiences? Rūta Kazlauskaitė, an expert in VR from the perspective of memory, will present her reflections on methodologies for VR research. She will introduce a qualitative analytical framework that addresses key elements of VR storyworlds, such as spatial and temporal design, user roles and perspectives, relationality, and multisensory engagement. In analyzing VR storyworlds, she argues, four foundational questions serve as the starting point for understanding the immersive experiences: Where am I? Who am I? Who am I with, and what is our relation? What am I doing and feeling?
Rūta is a researcher in the Pledge - Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance Horizon project.
If in 2019 Twitter worked as a platform for political communication across Europe for the European Parliamentary elections, how to form a dataset for social media political communication in 2024? In this presentation, Emilia Palonen will discuss how the HEPP research team tackled this massive data-gathering project, across 10 EU countries and a fragmented social media field. In addition to these reflections on data gathering methodologies, she will also discuss how researchers coming from a post-foundational and interpretivist perspective can approach big data sets using AI as a heuristic device, overlaid with theoretical concepts such as the social contract, grievance politics, and populism.
Brown bag seminars take place at HSSH every Wednesday at 12.15.
You are welcome to join at seminar room 524, Fabianinkatu 24 A (access via door, not courtyard), 5th floor, or online via Zoom (you can find the Zoom link at the Brown bag seminars event page, linked below).