Digital Media Culture (MA)

Birkbeck, University of London

This MA Digital Media Culture provides you with the crucial knowledge you need to analyse and comprehend today’s fast-evolving digital environments. It offers you critical thinking about digital culture enhanced by direct exposure to digital media software, technologies and design practices. Why choose this course? It is one of the only MA degrees in the UK to combine academic rigour and scholarly consideration with the opportunity for hands-on training in digital media design and management. It is designed to prepare you for a career in digital media by offering you the opportunity to learn how new technologies are changing social, cultural and economic life. What you will learn On this MA Digital Media Culture you will acquire the research skills, approaches and methods that will allow you to understand current forms of digital culture, while also anticipating future developments in digital media. Together, we will explore the influence of digital media technologies on contemporary culture and consider how the growing spread of digital images and information have changed how we create and communicate. You will engage with the critical technology issues facing contemporary society and culture including: the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) social media and the attention economy digital animation and gaming cultures the politics of big data and digital algorithms. How you will learn This course is available to study full- or part-time. It has an evening timetable with classes taking place in the evening. These consist of formal lectures, seminars and practical workshops to provide you with hands-on experience. We offer you targeted smaller class sizes and highly interactive teaching which make for an engaging learning experience. This course focuses on digital media culture, but we also offer two interlinked MA Digital Media courses, one which focuses on management and one which focuses on design aspects. This means that you can tailor your degree to your career goals broadening your skills further with option modules relating to either management or design.