Don't miss the double lecture feature in our series «Studying Sensory Media & AI» tomorrow

🎤 Azadeh Ganjeh: Counter-Choreographies of Data: Activism Between Platform and Ground
🎤 David Ribes: Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS From Its Research Infrastructures
📆 24 June at 2.15 pm & 4.00 pm
📍 Uni Siegen, AH-A 125 & Webex
🔗 https://u-si.de/bAlBg

#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #DataActivism #Interoperability #DataPolitics #ResearchMethods

The “you need 30 participants” rule gets repeated like it’s carved in stone, but it was never a universal law. MeasuringU breaks down when sample size actually matters and when the rule is overkill for your study type. If you’re making research design decisions by gut feel, this is the piece to read.

https://measuringu.com/do-statistics-really-require-30-participants

#uxresearch #userresearch #researchmethods (https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260622/171500/)

Research Design (6th Edition) — Creswell & Creswell

Creswell and Creswell's sixth edition of Research Design compares quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. It traces how each method shapes the research process from problem statement to data collection, analysis, and final representation.

https://businesssciencedaily.com/research-design-creswell-creswell-sixth-edition/

#businesssciencedaily #researchdesign #bookreview #researchmethods

Open-ended questionnaire responses add meaning that numbers alone often miss. They show how participants frame experiences, priorities, and uncertainty in their own words. With systematic coding, you can keep interpretations traceable and connect qualitative themes with quantitative results for richer analysis.
Explore more: https://qdacity.com/questionaire-analysis/

#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods #QDA #QDAcity

This article discusses how combining many small psychological differences across cognition, personality, and interests can predict a person’s sex with about 80 percent accuracy, and how this approach relates to gender patterns in occupations. It also notes limitations and implications for understanding gender-related career choices.

The content is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it illustrates how small, distributed traits can aggregate to explain real-world socio-cultural patterns, highlighting the interplay between individual differences and collective trends.

Article Title: Combining small psychological differences predicts a person’s sex with 80 percent accuracy

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/combining-small-psychological-differences-predicts-a-persons-sex-with-80-percent-accuracy/

#psychology #sexdifferences #cognition #personality #interests #occupations #genderroles #dataanalysis #psychologicalmeasurement #researchmethods

We continue our series on «Studying Sensory Media & AI» on Wednesday with a lecture by

🎤 Maija Hirvonen: Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis and the Analysis of Technologized Interaction at Work with Functional Diversity & Mixed Abilities
📆 WED 10 June 2026 at 2.15 pm
📍 Universität Siegen AH-A 125 & Webex
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg

#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #EMCA #Workplace #Interaction #ResearchMethods #MixedMethods

The Craft of Research | Booth et al. (5th ed., 2024)

From framing a research problem to building sound arguments and writing with clarity. The Craft of Research, 5th ed. (2024) – interactive summary with key concepts, warrants, evidence, and ethics.

https://businesssciencedaily.com/the-craft-of-research-booth-et-al-5th-ed-2024/

#businesssciencedaily #thecraftofresearch #researchmethods #qualitativeresearch #quantitativeresearch

If your question is about shared perspectives or group dynamics, focus groups can reveal what one-to-one interviews often cannot: how meanings form through interaction. They let you observe how participants respond to each other, negotiate viewpoints, and shape discussion through context and social cues. Learn more: https://qdacity.com/focus-group/

#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods #QDA #QDAcity

The article reports on new research examining whether psychedelic use reliably shifts authoritarian attitudes, finding no consistent evidence for such a change across several study designs and participant groups. It highlights limitations like floor effects and the influence of context on psychological outcomes.

This topic is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it probes how altered states of consciousness interact with political cognition, openness to experience, and social attitudes, while underscoring the importance of robust methodology and replication.

Article Title: New research challenges the idea that psychedelics reduce authoritarian attitudes

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/new-research-challenges-the-idea-that-psychedelics-reduce-authoritarian-attitudes/

#psychology #psychedelics #authoritarianism #attitudes #replication #neuroplasticity #setandsetting #politicalpsychology #mentalhealth #researchmethods

📢 Don't miss the next lecture of our series on «Studying Sensory Media & AI» with

🎤 Elena Pilippets: Situated, Distributed, Messy: Meme Research in Synthetic Social Media
📍 Uni Siegen AH-A 217/18 & Webex
🔗 https://u-si.de/bAlBg

The lecture series addresses methodological problems that emerge from studying media as an “ongoing accomplishment” (Garfinkel).

#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #ResearchMethods #GenerativeAI #MixedMethods