The programme will provide students with a critical grounding in the dominant trends and new directions in the contemporary digital landscape, while analysing the key technological, social and cultural drivers of change in this area. It is a collaborative effort across two extremely successful departments, Digital Humanities (DDH) and Culture, Media and Creative Industries (CMCI). It will offer students a unique opportunity to benefit from the expertise of academics across both departments.

Key benefits

• Critical awareness: can undertake analysis of complex, incomplete or contradictory areas of knowledge communicating the outcome effectively and can synthesise diverse information in a manner that may be innovative, utilising knowledge and theory.
• A level of conceptual understanding that will allow the participant to critically to evaluate past research and argue for alternative approaches.
• Building and encouraging taking Initiative and originality in problem solving.
• Ability to act autonomously in planning and implementing tasks at a professional or equivalent level making decision in complex and unpredictable situations, for example, historical, geographical, temporal, social considerations.
• Critical evaluation of messaging from organisations which have commercial interests.
• Using methodologies which provide broad perspectives on the issues. For example, feminist methodologies, post-colonial methodologies, methods from science and technology studies, critical data studies etc.
• Critical literacies required for analysis of texts, media, interfaces and simulations.

This highly interdisciplinary programme will introduce students from both technical and non-technical backgrounds to critical issues and debates within digital society, now and into the future. The programme will go beyond giving students a grounding in contemporary debates: via a series of concrete case studies and practice-based assignments it will challenge them to imagine digitally-mediated cultural, social and economic futures that are achievable, sustainable and ethical on a global scale. This MA will encourage students to imagine and future-cast not just better digital technology but also a better world. The programme will include content specifically on the digital future of South East Asia.

Please note, this course is only available to Students based in South East Asia.
Employability

Develop the expertise to imagine and then lead the development of digital transformations across diverse sectors, from health to business, culture, and the environment.

Research-informed, this online masters is taught by leaders in digital humanities and creative industries. Their research is driving the rationale behind digital developments in the creative, media, cultural, and gaming sectors.

Approaching digital futures from a humanities and critical technology studies perspectives encourages a big picture view of technology. Youll be able to understand and assess the wide-ranging and often far-reaching impact of potential digital solutions.