Study Details: MA 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time
Study key debates, theories, issues and contentions about how digital media intersect and influence contemporary life.
At York, you'll be housed in our interdisciplinary School of Arts and Creative Technologies, accessing specific media expertise across film, television, theatre, interactive media and music. You'll be able to gain specialist knowledge of digital culture in tandem with interdisciplinary learning across different media forms through optional modules.
We'll teach you through a mix of lectures, seminars, workshops, practicals and masterclasses. You'll study a wide range of key concepts, applications, operations, and visions of contemporary digital media and culture to give you the intellectual tools to analyse and answer questions about our digitally mediated world. Our focus is on developing skills of research, discussion, critique, analysis, and critical thinking for you to gain specialist insights into the effects, transformations and consequences of digital technologies.
2:2 or equivalent in a relevant subject. For those returning to study, evidence of appropriate experience will be required.
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This course will help to develop your employability by equipping you with the knowledge of key theories and research methods relevant for analysing and understanding today's digital environment. Your independent study project will enable you to prepare, scope, research, implement, write, evaluate and critically produce a substantive piece of work in an intellectually rich and fast-changing area.
Career opportunities:
Core modules
You'll study taught modules and undertake an extended independent writing or creative study project.
Digital Culture: Key Concepts
Digital Methods
Digital Life & Objects
Option modules
You will choose two option modules from examples including:
Gaming: Industry & Culture
Leading in the Creative & Cultural Industries
Social Media, Data & Society
The Future of Story: Storytelling in the Digital Age
Understanding Social Media
Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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