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Digital Media and Culture at University of Warwick - UCAS

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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 these core changes: 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 importance requires interdisciplinary knowledge. Based at Warwick's Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), 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
  • Datafication, privacy and surveillance
  • The politics of design
  • Memes and digital subcultures
  • 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. This information is applicable for 2025 entry. Given the interval between the publication of courses and enrolment, some of the information may change. It is important to check our website before you apply.

Modules

Core modules

  • Approaches to the Digital
  • Digital Methods
  • Dissertation
Optional modules Optional modules can vary from year to year. Example optional modules may include:
  • Data Visualisation in Science, Culture and Public Policy
  • User Interface Cultures: Design, Method and Critique
  • Visualisation Foundations
  • Digital Sociology
  • Platform, Economy and Society
  • Data Science Across Disciplines: Principles, Practice and Critique
  • Generative AI: Histories, Techniques, Cultures & Impacts
  • Adventures in Interdisciplinarity
- Global Digital Health and Human Rights

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 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). English language requirements You can find out more about our English language requirements on our website. 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.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

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

Sponsorship information

We offer a variety of postgraduate funding options for study at the University of Warwick, from postgraduate loans, university scholarships, fee awards, to academic department bursaries. It's important that you apply for your postgraduate course first before you apply for a University of Warwick scholarship. Please visit the University's scholarship webpages.

Digital Media and Culture at University of Warwick - UCAS