Graduate Diploma in Digital Communication and Culture
Postgraduate
In Canberra (Australia)
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Canberra (Australia)
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The Graduate Diploma in Digital Communication and Culture is a unique degree that offers a flexible program of study on multiple aspects of digital communication and culture, including the latest developments in internet platforms, social media, research tools, digital audiences, mobile media, online governance, cross-media creative and games.
Are you always online? Addicted to social media? Want to delve deeper into all things digital?
Develop a thorough and comprehensive platform from which to engage with digital technologies and their cultural contexts. Gain an understanding of the recent literature on technological change and its cultural contexts.
Why study with us?
You will develop a critical understanding of the following areas:
- a esthetics and politics of computer games and mobile media
− production and circulation of knowledge in the digital era
− diverse meanings and operations of networks
− the activity of audiences of digital media
− diverse forms of regulation of the internet
You may choose elective units based on selected and recommended pathways from Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney College of the Arts, Interactive Design and Electronic Arts and Information Technologies.
You can also undertake an internship as a capstone experience, coordinated by staff within the Department of Media and Communications.
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About this course
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Subjects
- IT
- Media
- Communication Training
- Internet
- Social Media
Course programme
For an up-to-date list of units of study for this degree, please refer to the online postgraduate handbook.
Study planThe Graduate Diploma in Digital Communication and Culture requires the satisfactory completion of 8 units of study (48 credit points) (cp), including 24 credit points of core units of study. Other units of study are normally chosen from the list of approved electives, or undertaken in a relevant or related field, subject to the approval of the academic coordinator.
Graduate opportunities
Graduates work as creatives, journalists, educators, strategists and policymakers in technology domains and in a range of technologically mediated industries and organisations including media, the public sector, advertising, education, museums, culture, entertainment, telecommunications, IT and games. This program is particularly valuable for professionals moving into the emerging content, services and leadership roles opening up in broadband, mobile telecommunications and computer entertainment.
Graduate Diploma in Digital Communication and Culture