Digital Culture & Society

Course detail Description

On this Digital Culture & Society MA course you will focus on how technology and culture are connected in today’s society. We will introduce you to different perspectives on the changing nature of digital developments and how they are reshaping various cultural, socio-political and economic fields such as work, governance, identity, cultural institutions, finance industry, and so on. We aim to develop and enhance your awareness and understanding of a range of subjects relevant to digital culture and technology, including:

• The key information and communication technologies that shape contemporary society.
• How digital technologies are shaping today’s society, including social intercourse, social structures, government, international politics, education and law.
• The current critical and theoretical debates around digital culture and the role of technology in cultural life.
• The ethical, moral and philosophical issues that arise from the role and impact of technology in cultural and social life.

Teaching
If you are a full-time student, we will provide 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 provide 90 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars in your first year, and 50 hours in your second. 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 mostly take the form of essays, with some project work.

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 Culture & Society (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 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

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

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.