Digital Culture and Society

Graduates of this course will potentially embark on professional careers in social and technology research, work in think tanks, the arts and the cultural sectors, government and public administration, international development, NGOs, education, in media and communications globally as well as into marketing and public relations or journalism. They can also progress to PhD study.

Key Benefits:

• Gain an overview and awareness of emerging and established digital technologies by learning about highly topical and contemporary developments.
• 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, governance 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

Bachelor's degree with 2:1 honours in English, or a related discipline. For those returning to study, evidence of appropriate experience will be required.

MA

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

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

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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