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MA - Master of Arts
University of Warwick
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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MA - Master of Arts
University of Warwick
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
MA - Master of Arts
University of Warwick
Part Time
SEP-25
2 years
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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 and 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.
Careers
Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including: AXA BaiDu GroupM Just Eat Skyscanner The Labour Party and University of Warwick. They have pursued roles such as: authors writers and translators; business and financial project management professionals; buyers and procurement officers; data analysts and product managers; marketing associate professionals; quality assurance and regulatory professionals and researchers.
Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:
Minimum requirements 2:1 undergraduate degree
Students living in
Domestic
£12,830 per year
Students from Domestic
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£27,490 per year
Students from EU
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£27,490 per year
Students from International
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