Digital Media MA
Master
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
This MA gives you the opportunity to combine theoretical and practical approaches to digital media. Taught by some of the most influential researchers in the field today, you’ll develop the skills, knowledge and expertise needed to produce excellent research-led work.
You’ll gain experience of designing and developing digital media products, using industry-standard equipment and authoring tools. You’ll also learn about:
the history of digital media
the key concepts shaping current thinking about digital media
the intellectual debates framing our understanding of digital culture, digital humanities and computational media.
This MA is associated with the internationally acclaimed Sussex Humanities Lab.
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About this course
Our graduates have gone on to pursue careers in journalism, PR, marketing, web design, education and consultancy. Some have also gone on to further study or to work in academia.
Employers include:
BBC
Cogapp
Digital Media Lab at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Makemedia.
Graduate destinations
92% of students from the School of Media, Film and Music were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent graduates from the School of Media, Film and Music have gone on to jobs including:
journalist, The Independent
projects and campaigns coordinator, Long Run Works
media executive, All Response Media.
You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.
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Subjects
- Industry
- Media
- Humanities
- Dissertation
- Media Practice
- Media Audiences
- Research
- Communication
- Promotional
- Culture
Course programme
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.New Developments in Digital Media 1aTheory and Practice of Interactive Media
Options
Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
- Dissertation: Digital Media
- Industry Placement and written submission: digital media
- Software Project and written submission: digital media
- Activist Media Practice
- Animals and Screen Media
- Expanded Media: Forms and Practices
- Gender, Sexuality and Digital Culture
- Global Cinemas
- Global News Industries A
- Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Margins to the Masses
- Interactive Project Development
- Media Audiences
- Media Theory and Research
- Media, Culture and Communication
- Music and the Media of Performance (Practice)
- Music and the Media of Performance (Theory)
- New Developments in Digital Media 1b
- New Moving Screens
- Promotional Culture
- Race, Culture and the Media
- Researching Cultural and Creative Industries
- Working in the Creative Industries: Critical frameworks
- Writing for the Screen
Additional information
Digital Media MA