Course summary

Why Lancaster? • Develop a strong understanding of leading global media channels and how culture and use vary between different countries • Discover how locally popular media and leading global media work together and shape each other in the modern media landscape • Step into a career in a leadership role and drive change within the media industry • Chose a course that allows you to flex your skills in critical thinking, creative problem solving and innovation The pace of innovation means that new media technologies, platforms and organisations are constantly emerging. They reshape social structures and ways of life. One of the most crucial questions of our times is: how can we understand these changes? Crack this and you’ll be a valuable asset to a vast range of organisations. Answering the big questions In what ways do media forms and technologies become globally significant, and what are their local or translocal dimensions? How do we critically investigate the power, politics, and values of innovation industries, digital societies and media cultures and practices? MA Global Media and Society focuses on these issues by drawing on a wide range of academic fields and professional expertise. You will dissect key issues in media and technology and explore intersections with social inequalities, the environment, gender studies, technologies, global systems and decolonising. You’ll consider how media innovation and (dis)engagement in global media can both reproduce global social injustice and be used as a tool for social change and advocacy on an international scale. Develop your expertise Our goal is to advance your skills in the kinds of critical thinking, independent research, and creative problem solving that are needed to lead development and innovation in the media and broader cultural sectors. Our academics contribute to the public debate on key issues in media culture, so you can be confident you’ll be part of a vibrant community at the forefront of the latest thinking. Plus, you’ll have access to the latest digital media equipment to help you complete your practical coursework. Your personal academic tutor will be on hand throughout to discuss your progress on a one-to-one basis.