Digital Asset & Media Management

Course detail Description

Our Digital Asset & Media Management MA takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, allowing you to explore and critically assess competing theories and practices from across new media digital management, archival, and information science. This will provide you with a well-rounded understanding of the requirements across many domains. In recent years there has been an explosion in the volume, complexity and range of digital content in a variety of media. This has been called the big data revolution and is closely connected to the increasing interest in the digital economy as an engine of growth.

There are very few institutions of any size that do not create and depend on the management, reuse and curation of digital media and information. Government, the public sector, Higher Education, cultural and creative industries and business all make and use these assets every day. This makes the skills we will give you increasingly attractive to employers. As well as developing the practical skills you need to manage digital media assets, you will also develop your critical and reflective capacities and increase your understanding of the interdependence between digital processes, technology, society and curatorial practice. This will enable you to enter into a technologically complex and fast-moving digital world of work.

Reasons you should consider the Digital Asset & Media Management MA include:

• Broadcast and publishing industries are increasingly using digital media in new ways, on new technological platforms such as tablets and mobile.
• Archives and libraries are increasingly depending on digital materials and cultural heritage organisations are digitizing and making digital materials relating to our history and culture more available.
• Businesses rely on digital media and content to develop, run and manage their future prosperity.
• Research managers and data scientists work with large volumes of digital data, running experiments, simulations and visualisations.
• Employers are looking for skilled professionals with knowledge and expertise in managing their valuable digital media assets.

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

If you are a part-time student, we will give you 90 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars in your first year and 50 in your second year. We will 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 will assess our modules entirely through coursework, which will consist of a mixture of essays, project work, and workshop reports, depending on the modules you choose.

The study time and assessment methods detailed above are typical and give you a good indication of what to expect. However, if the course modules alter, the above methods may differ.

Course accreditation
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) accredited.

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.

You are required to take:

• Introduction to Digital Asset & Media Management (40 credits)
• Dissertation (60 credits)

The full list of modules and their descriptions can be found here , and will be updated annually.

In addition, you are required to take four modules (totalling 80 credits) from a list of optional modules that may typically include:

• Web Technologies (20 credits)
• Digital Publishing (20 credits)
• Communication & Consumption of Cultural Heritage (20 credits)
• Digital Media, Digital Marketing (20 credits)
• From Information to Knowledge (20 credits)
• Digital Asset & Media Management in the Broadcast Media (20 credits)
• Introduction to Data Journalism (20 credits)
• Management for Digital Content Industries (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)
• The full list of modules and their descriptions can be found here , and will be updated annually.

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.