12 monthsProgramme duration
40,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
25 Jun, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
The Digital Media: Critical Studies MA equips you with an advanced critical and analytical understanding of the current, rapidly changing digital media landscape. You will explore media and cultural studies theories and methods relevant to the analysis of digital media texts, audiences, users, technologies, infrastructures, and cultures. Optional modules enable you to explore specific topics such as digital games, gender and digital media, and mobile media in greater depth. In the final term, you will undertake an independent research project on a topic of your choice under the guidance of a supervisor.
You will cultivate your own critical voice to analyse various aspects of digital media culture, underpinned by intellectual curiosity, autonomy, and integrity. You will engage with current key theories and debates in media and cultural studies, particularly in relation to digital media, and apply qualitative research methods to critically and ethically analyse how media constructs, represents, and shapes social practices, cultural norms, identities, and power relations.
Our compulsory modules give a shared, in-depth foundation on key concepts in today’s digital media theory and key considerations in designing digital media research. Our optional modules offer a range of critical perspectives on digital media, including how our gendered interactions with digital media are shaped by questions of identity, representation, and power; how to make sense of digital games, game industry, and player cultures; and how mobile media participate in shaping our ways of being, feeling and moving in the world from intimate everyday interactions to large-scale political changes.
Finally, by conducting your own independent research with the support of a supervisor, you are able to focus on your own areas of interest, underscored by a nuanced understanding of digital media phenomena in your complex sociocultural contexts.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
The Digital Media: Critical Studies MA equips you with an advanced critical and analytical understanding of the current, rapidly changing digital media landscape. You will explore media and cultural studies theories and methods relevant to the analysis of digital media texts, audiences, users, technologies, infrastructures, and cultures. Optional modules enable you to explore specific topics such as digital games, gender and digital media, and mobile media in greater depth. In the final term, you will undertake an independent research project on a topic of your choice under the guidance of a supervisor.
You will cultivate your own critical voice to analyse various aspects of digital media culture, underpinned by intellectual curiosity, autonomy, and integrity. You will engage with current key theories and debates in media and cultural studies, particularly in relation to digital media, and apply qualitative research methods to critically and ethically analyse how media constructs, represents, and shapes social practices, cultural norms, identities, and power relations.
Our compulsory modules give a shared, in-depth foundation on key concepts in today’s digital media theory and key considerations in designing digital media research. Our optional modules offer a range of critical perspectives on digital media, including how our gendered interactions with digital media are shaped by questions of identity, representation, and power; how to make sense of digital games, game industry, and player cultures; and how mobile media participate in shaping our ways of being, feeling and moving in the world from intimate everyday interactions to large-scale political changes.
Finally, by conducting your own independent research with the support of a supervisor, you are able to focus on your own areas of interest, underscored by a nuanced understanding of digital media phenomena in your complex sociocultural contexts.
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