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Digital Media and Culture at University of Warwick - UCAS

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2023 - 20242024 - 2025
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Course summary

Digital Media and Culture MA focuses on how digital processes are transforming culture, the economy and society. Become trained in the tools to understand it, and use digital media creatively and critically at Warwick's Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Course overview Digital media today affect all aspects of everyday, professional and public life, and understanding its significance requires interdisciplinary knowledge. Based at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of Warwick, the MA Programme in Digital Media and Culture is an advanced one-year postgraduate degree that addresses the role of digital technologies, media, and infrastructures in relation to culture, economics, politics, and society. Drawing on multiple disciplines, the degree supports critical approaches to key topics in digital culture, including:

  • Platformisation
  • Participatory culture
  • Media activism
  • Digital labour and political economy
  • Privacy and surveillance
  • Behavioural design
  • Data critique
  • Environmental sustainability
Our teaching combines theory, research methods, and creative practice. By selecting from a diverse offering of modules, students will have, for instance, the opportunity to learn data analytics and visualisation, to engage with speculative design and media art, and to discuss concepts in fields ranging from software studies to environmental humanities. Based at a research centre promoting cutting-edge scholarship in these areas, our degree is primarily research-driven. MA students will be encouraged to select their own path through the degree and contribute to the culture of CIM by attending invited talks, participating in workshops, and organising interdisciplinary symposiums.

Modules

Core modules

  • Approaches to the Digital
  • Digital Objects, Digital Methods
  • Dissertation
Optional modules Optional modules can vary from year to year. Example optional modules may include:
  • Media Activism
  • Urban Resilience, Disasters and Data
  • User Interface Cultures: Design, Method and Critique
  • Visualisation
  • Digital Cities
  • Digital Sociology
  • Ethnography, Knowledge and Practice
  • Ecological Futures: Science, Culture and Media
- Data Science Across Disciplines: Principles, Practice and Critique

Assessment method

A combination of essays, reports, design projects, technical report writing, practice assessments, group work and presentations and an individual research project (10,000 word dissertation).

Entry requirements

**Minimum requirements** 2:i undergraduate degree. **English language requirements** You can find out more about our English language requirements. This course requires the following: - Band B - IELTS overall score of 7.0, minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above. **International qualifications** We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications. For more information, please visit the international entry requirements page. **Additional requirements** There are no additional entry requirements for this course.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Additional fee information

Please visit the University of Warwick website for the tuition fees for postgraduate courses: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding/fees
Digital Media and Culture at University of Warwick - UCAS