Digital Asset & Media Management
Master
In London
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
London
Overview
This course looks at the creation, management, curation and repurposing of digital media and digital assets.
As the digital aspects of content industries, the cultural heritage sector and the private sector are reaching maturity, career opportunities have mushroomed worldwide for professionals, who are familiar with digital media and have the skills to manage digital content throughout its lifecycle.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.
Key Benefits
We draw on a wide range of expertise, offering insights into curatorial and archival practices of dealing with digital assets as well as into technologies and wider socioeconomic questions such as rights and project management.
The course tutors offer unrivalled expertise in technologies and processes that allow the quick and efficient storage, retrieval and reuse of digital assets. They come from a diverse and highly interdisciplinary background, having run digital archives or worked in the digital industries in the past.
Through the optional internship module students can have direct access to some of the world’s most important culture and media institutions.
Close links and regular speakers from the content sector give students insights and up-to-the-minute knowledge of the subject area.
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Subjects
- Web
- Media
Course programme
Year 1 Required Modules
You are required to take:
- Introduction to Digital Asset and Media Management (40 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
- Introduction To Digital Asset Management
In addition, you are required to take four modules (totalling 80 credits) from a list of optional modules that may typically include:
• Digital Arts & 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)
• Metadata Theory & Practice (20 credits)
• Digital Asset & Media Management in the Broadcast Media (20 credits)
• Digital Asset & Media Technologies in Practice (20 credits)
• Internship: Digital Asset & Media Management in the Workplace (20 credits)
• Maps, Apps & the GeoWeb (20 credits)
• Data Journalism (20 credits)
• Network Literacy (20 credits)
• Digital Publishing (20 credits)
• Open Culture (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)
• Up to 20 credits from other Master’s modules offered in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, subject to approvals.
If you are a part-time student, you will take Introduction to Digital Asset & Media Management in your first year and your dissertation in your second. You will divide your 80 optional credits between the two years.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.
Digital Asset & Media Management