Digital Culture & Society

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

Overview
This course give you a unique opportunity to explore the many forms of digital culture and their profound effects on society from a number of different angles. It aims to develop participants' skills in forming their own assessments of digital technologies and their impact on society and culture.
Graduates of this coursewill have gained the analytical tools required to understand how digitisation and internet technologies have shaped and are shaping modern culture.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key Benefits
Develop an understanding of the role and impact of digital technologies in contemporary culture, broadly interpreted to include such areas of activity as performing arts, telecommunications, information technology, philosophy, law and education.
Study digital technologies within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework, combining modules from participating departments.
Obtain on-the-job training in a month long internship within a relevant organisation.
Take field trips to major London cultural institutions, such as Tate Modern, National Gallery, Institute of Archaeology and the BBC Archives.

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London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

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Subjects

  • Web
  • Media

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

You are required to take:

  • Introduction to Digital Culture & Society (40 credits)
  • Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional Modules

In addition you are required to take 80 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• Web Technologies (20 credits)
• Communication & Consumption of Cultural Heritage (20 credits)
• Open Culture (20 credits)
• Digital Publishing (20 credits)
• Editorial Models for Digital Texts: Theory & Practice (20 credits)
• Maps, Apps & the GeoWeb: Introduction to the Spatial Humanities (20 credits)
• Metadata Theory & Practice (20 credits)
• Crowds & Clouds - Digital Ecosystems (20 credits)
• Digital Media, Digital Marketing (20 credits)
• Digital Asset & Media Management in the Broadcast Media (20 credits)
• Curating & Preserving Digital Culture (20 credits)
• Digital Asset & Media Technologies in Practice (20 credits)
• Management for Digital Content Industries (20 credits)
• Internship: Digital Culture & Society in the Workplace (20 credits)
• Youth Subcultures (20 credits)
• Music & American Culture (20 credits)
• Transnational Screen Production (20 credits)
• The Aesthetic Economy & Aesthetic Markets (20 credits)
• Visual Culture (20 credits)
• Cultural Memory (20 credits)
• Ontologies of Digital Media (20 credits)
• Fashion Culture & Society (20 credits)
• Culture & the City (20 credits)
• Art and Globalisation (20 credits)
• Gender, Media and Culture (20 credits)
• Creatives: Working in the Cultural Industries (20 credits)
• Transmedia Storytelling (20 credits)
• International Heritage - Politics, Policy & Practice (20 credits)
• Digital Culture & Political Protest (20 credits)
• Cultural Policy (20 credits)
• Culture: Conflict, Diplomacy & International Relations (20 credits)
• Film & American Culture (20 credits)
• Media Culture & Ethnicity (20 credits)
• Up to 20 credits from other Master’s modules that the Faculty of Arts & Humanities offers, subject to approvals.

If you are a part-time student, you will take Introduction to Digital Culture & Society in your first year, and your dissertation in your second.
Part-time students will take 60 credits of taught modules (one full year module and one semester only module) in their first year and 60 credits of taught modules (three semester only modules) and the dissertation in their second year.

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.

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