PDMD001 - ECTS

The main objective of this course is to give an insight into the digital culture, addressing the history of Multimedia — in particular of Digital Media — and to reflect on trends and influences of digital media in contemporary society and culture. It aims to give students a broad overview on the impacts of digital technology, and to give insights into how technological developments in this area forged a new expressive culture. Lectures will have themes drawn from the list outlined in the program that will be addressed both from an historical perspective as well as considering its possible developments in the near future.

PDMD018 - ECTS

The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the basic research tools, allowing them to:

• Understand the different steps and dimensions that typically integrate an academic research work
• Correctly select bibliographic sources in order to have a deep understanding of a given literature
• Identify good practices on research and analyze critically specific research projects
• Identify state-of-the-art research lines in the main fields of the Doctoral Programme in Digital Media
• Identify ethical issues arising in the context of the research activity
• Enhance skills to communicate a research proposal in an effective way.

In addition, the course also intends to endow students with basic entrepreneurship skills. To this end, the course presents basic (economic and business) tools and concepts, allowing students to apply them in specific problems related to business model design.

PDMD004 - ECTS

- Criar espaços de análise e reflexão sobre os modos como as diferentes epistemologias constroem visões diferenciadas sobre a Comunicação. 

- Analisar teorias da comunicação, numa perspectiva diacrónica e interdisciplinar. 

- Desenvolver um raciocínio compreensivo que permita uma aplicação das teorias e conceitos substantivos a hipotéticas situações de terreno.

- Situar os novos media no quadro das teorias da comunicação.

PDMD028 - ECTS

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

• Understand relevant subjects to be able to innovate in his/her doctoral work;
• Develop specific skills for the development of his doctoral work;

Develop critical thinking on key scientific areas for the writing of his/her doctoral thesis.

PDMD002 - ECTS

This course aims at developing skills in designing and developing solutions based on emerging multimedia  technologies in the context of experimentation, where it is expected that each work will address a proble, formulate an hypothesis, preparare tests, perform tests and extract results annd conclusions.

Possible topics to develop:

a) new multimedia paradigms (virtual environments, mobile devices);

b) interactive narrative models for spatio-temporal data (metadata, networks, search results, etc): Depicting changes;

c) information processing and visualization for social media.

d) game analytics.

e) Big data visualization

PDMD017 - ECTS

 This is a compulsory course that is divided into two interconnected parts with autonomous syllabus, although approached taking into account their complementarities. The first, on Quantitative Methods, aims at exploring the hypotheses testing and multivariate statistical analysis procedures in the production of scientific knowledge and to consolidate skills for the critical evaluation of their potential and limitations. The second, o Qualitative Methods, aims to lay down the procedures for analyzing qualitative information, evaluating them per se, as well as their synergies with thequantitative approach, on a mixed methods approach.

PDMD019 - ECTS

Seminar II aims at developing students’ skills regarding the organization and the lead of scientific events . It also intends to allow students to deepen the most relevant themes in their area of research within an interactive content.

Students are expected to be able to:
- Identify opportunities to develop solutions based on Digital Media;
- Develop creative solutions using Digital Media to solve concrete problems;
- Establish and lead multidisciplinary teams in solving complex problems.

PDMD003 - ECTS

The course aims to deepen and systematize the knowledge of Digital Media technologies, considering the following topics:

•        Main characteristics of different media and its digital representations.
•        Multimedia information processing.
•        Architectures, software models and environments for building multimedia applications.
•        Navigation and structuring models for multimedia and hypermedia information.
•        Advanced application systems including mobile applications, tangible interfaces and augmented reality.

PDMD028 - ECTS

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

• Understand relevant subjects to be able to innovate in his/her doctoral work;
• Develop specific skills for the development of his doctoral work;

Develop critical thinking on key scientific areas for the writing of his/her doctoral thesis.

PDMD020 - ECTS
Elaboração de um plano de tese relevante que conduza ao desenvolvimento de uma tese original em Media Digitais, contendo resultados de elevado nível científico. 

PDMD021 - ECTS
Elaboração de um plano de tese relevante que conduza ao desenvolvimento de uma tese original em Media Digitais, contendo resultados de elevado nível científico. 

PDMD020 - ECTS
Elaboração de um plano de tese relevante que conduza ao desenvolvimento de uma tese original em Media Digitais, contendo resultados de elevado nível científico. 

PDMD020 - ECTS
Elaboração de um plano de tese relevante que conduza ao desenvolvimento de uma tese original em Media Digitais, contendo resultados de elevado nível científico.