Digital Media and Culture MA
Master
In Scarborough
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Type
Master
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Location
Scarborough
What is so different about digital media and to what extent has digitalisation changed contemporary culture? This course allows you to measure the technological and cultural impact of digital media. In particular; questions of individual and collective identity; the practices and policies of digital media and cultural institutions; the interrelationship between digital media; culture and technological change; and the rise of consumer and “prosumer” cultures are addressed. PLEASE NOTE: when making your application please select Communication; Culture and Media MA and then state clearly your chosen routeway (specialism) within the personal statement (e.g. Digital Media and Culture MA). When you select Apply for this Course you will be taken via the application route page.
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Good honours degree in a cognate subject and/or equivalent professional experience.
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Subjects
- Cultural Studies
- Film Studies
- Digital Editing
- Media Studies
- Communications
- Cultural Communication
- Communication Training
- Media
- Media Journalism
- Media planning
Course programme
What is so different about digital media and to what extent has digitalisation changed contemporary culture? This course allows you to measure the technological and cultural impact of digital media.
In particular, questions of individual and collective identity, the practices and policies of digital media and cultural institutions, the interrelationship between digital media, culture and technological change, and the rise of consumer and “prosumer” cultures are addressed.
PLEASE NOTE: when making your application please select Communication, Culture and Media MA and then state clearly your chosen routeway (specialism) within the personal statement (e.g. Digital Media and Culture MA).
When you select Apply for this Course you will be taken via the application route page.
The course is taught by a team of enthusiastic specialists in the field of digital media and culture.
Staff will provide an introduction to theoretical perspectives and debates in a friendly and stimulating setting.
You will be encouraged to make practical, critical and creative use of digital media (e.g. blogging, video, imaging etc.) as part of your assignments.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?On this Digital Media and Culture MA degree you will measure modern developments and place them in their historical and contemporary cultural context and will be analysed through a variety of popular, commercial and media forms.
A special focus will be the political, ethical and cultural implications of ongoing and accelerated digitalisation within the context of a global information society.
The course provides you with a possibility to critically engage with the theoretical approaches, concepts and terminologies that are indispensable for (digital) media and cultural analysis. It is designed to further develop your ability to undertake criticism and interpretation of a whole range of cultural artefacts, texts, (digital) media forms, policies, practices and institutions. It raises questions like:
- What role do state and market relations play in the arts and culture?
- What is the relationship between the cultural industries, new media and cultural consumption?
- How do analogue and digital media deal with issues of race, identity and difference, or censorship?
- What is the connection between information technology, social media, biotechnology, military technology, human bodies and cultural identities in the 21st Century?
There are opportunities to explore contested issues in depth through seminars and to participate in open forum discussions, and to explore particular interests leading to guided research and a substantial, supervised MA research project.
Modules
- Research in Communication, Culture and Media;
- Approaches to Communication, Culture and Media;
- Digital Media and Culture.
Four Option Modules to be selected from:
- Information Societies;
- Media Audiences;
- Communication, Culture and Media Industries;
- Film Theory and Global Context;
- Identity and Cultural Difference;
- Journalism Themes and Issues;
- Public Relations and Information Management;
- Material Cultures.
MA Research Project
"Digital Media and Culture MA