MA Digital Media and Culture

Learn to understand, analyse and research how the increasing power of digital media and culture shapes and influences our world today. 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, and workshops. 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.You'll graduate equipped with the knowledge, understanding, analytical and research skills with which to consider, evaluate and investigate our digital present and future as a community, society, even as a species. You'll be well-equipped to embark on careers in media, creative, and technology sectors, research work, arts and culture, government and public administration, education, or further PhD study.Learning outcomesEvery course at York is built on a distinctive set of learning outcomes. These will give you a clear understanding of what you will be able to accomplish at the end of the course and help you explain what you can offer employers. Our academics identify the knowledge, skills, and experiences you'll need upon graduation and then design the course to get you there.Learning outcomes for this courseExplain the role, impact and significances of how media constitute, convene and contribute to contemporary digital culture to lead critical thinking about the changes in digital societyApply a knowledgeable overview of emerging and established digital media technologies and environments to deepen critical thinking about digital society and practicesAnalyse the wider effects, impact and implications of digital media in contemporary society for creative, academic and professional contextsCarry out digital research methods and key skills in reviewing, analysing and synthesising information and data for research and reporting in professional contextsCreatively apply various kinds and genres of digital media to lead andor contribute to creative and cultural practicesDemonstrate how contemporary life, culture and politics shape digital media (and vice versa) for deeper analyses of digital change in practical situations across creative, government, business and cultural sectorsSynthesise, review, reflect, critique and present information both verbally and in written form to professional audiences, using an array of print, visual, aural and digital media.