Big Data in Culture & Society

Course detail Description

This Big Data in Culture & Society MA offers you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of the role of Big Data in culture and society. It will enable you to analyse Big Data across social, political and economic areas. In addition to the required content we cover, you will have the opportunity to pursue your own academic interests through our optional modules and to undertake an internship and a group project module.

By bringing together domain knowledge and technical skills and approaching these from an Arts and Humanities perspective, the course will help you develop highly valued employment skills and expertise for careers in Big Data.

The course will provide you with:

• Knowledge and understanding of the effects of Big Data on contemporary society.
• Critical and theoretical approaches to the analysis of Big Data.
• Knowledge of the historical antecedents of Big Data.
• Understanding of the innovative methods for generating new knowledge through the use and analysis of Big Data.
• Understanding of Big Data in relation to the broader study of digital culture, the digital humanities and traditional humanities disciplines.
• Understanding of appropriate personal and professional conduct in the context of digital culture as an emerging discipline.

Teaching
If you are a full-time student, we will provide you with 120 to 180 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars across the year. We expect you to undertake around 1,674 hours of independent study.

If you are a part-time student, we will provide you with 90 of teaching through lectures and seminars in your first year, and 50 hours in your second. We expect you to undertake 720 hours of independent study in your first year and 954 hours in your second.

Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.

Assessment
We assess our modules entirely through coursework. This will comprise a mixture of essays, project work and workshop reports, depending on the modules you choose.

Regulating body
King's College London is regulated by the Office for Students.

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Structure

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits. The full list of modules and their descriptions can be found here , which will be updated annually.

You are required to take the following modules:

• Theorising Big Data (20 Credits)
• Big Data in Practice: Co-laboratories, Tools & Methods (20 Credits)
• From Data to Insight – Cultural & Social Analytics (20 Credits)
• Big Data & the Law: Foundations, Regimes & Principles, Challenges (20 Credits)
• Dissertation (60 Credits)

In addition, you are required to take two modules totalling 40 credits from a range of optional modules that typically includes:

• Digital Arts and Culture (20 credits)
• Editorial models for Digital Texts: Theory & Practice (20 credits)
• Web Technologies (20 credits)
• Digital Publishing (20 credits)
• Communication & Consumption of Cultural Heritage (20 credits)
• Material Culture of the Book (20 credits)
• Applied Visualisation for Cultural Heritage (20 credits)
• Open Culture (20 credits)Ontologies of Digital Media (20 credits)
• Social Media: Protest & Political Campaigning (20 credits)
• From Information to Knowledge – Metadata & Systems for Digital Assets & Media (20 credits)
• Management for Digital Content Industries (20 credits)
• Digital Media, Digital Marketing (20 credits)
• Curating & Preserving Digital Culture (20 credits)
• Crowds & Clouds – Digital Ecosystems (20 credits)
• Internship (20 credits)
• Up to 20 credits from master’s modules offered in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, subject to approvals

If you are a part-time student, you will take 80 credits of taught modules in your first year and 40 credits of taught modules and your dissertation in your second year. The full list of modules and their descriptions can be found here , which will be updated annually.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant courses of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.