| Current Status: Terminato | |||
| Course Type: Master | Level: | ||
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| Tuition: | 7.250 £ | Duration y/mm: | 0/12 |
| Places Available: | Credits: | ||
| Application Deadline: | 15/09/2017 | Admissions: | |
| Start Date: | 15/09/2017 | End Date: | 20/08/2018 |
Description
The MA in Social Media, Culture and Society offers a flexible interdisciplinary exploration of key contemporary developments in the networked digital media environment. It will benefit those seeking to develop their understanding of contemporary communication and its societal, political, regulatory, industrial and cultural contexts.
The MA in Social Media, Culture and Society provides students with the opportunity to focus at postgraduate level on:
- Studying the ways in which social media and the Internet shape and are shaped by social, economic, political, technological and cultural factors, in order to equip students to become critical research-oriented social media experts.
- Developing reflective and critical insights into how social media and the internet are used in multiple contexts in society, and into which roles social media can play in various forms of organisations that are situated in these societal contexts. The aim is that students are equipped to become reflective and critical social media practitioners.
- Gaining in-depth knowledge and understanding of the major debates about the social and cultural roles of social media and the Internet.
- Acquiring advanced knowledge and understanding of the key categories, theories, approaches and models of social media’s and the Internet’s roles in and impacts on society and human practices.
- Obtaining advanced insights into practical activity and practice-based work that relate to how social media and the Internet work and which implications they have for social and cultural practices.
Contents
The following modules are indicative of what you will study on this course. For more details on course structure and modules, and how you will be taught and assessed, see the full course document on the master website.
Semester one
Core modules
- Social Media, Creativity, Sharing , Visibility
- Dissertation Module
Option modules
- Study Skills (no credits)
2 elective modules from three topical clusters (any combination of modules is applicable)
(1) Theory and Global Political Economy of Media and Communication;
(2) Media Politics, Regulation and Business Strategies;
(3) Media, Culture and Everyday Life
Thematic Group 1: Theory and Global Political Economy of Media and Communication
- Theories of Communication
- Global Media
- Political Economy of Communication
Thematic Group 2: Media Politics, Regulation and Business Strategies;
- Technology and Communications Policy
- Political Analysis of Communications Policy
Semester two
Core modules
- Critical Theory of Social Media and The Internet
Option modules
2 elective modules from three topical clusters (any combination of modules is applicable)
(1) Theory and Global Political Economy of Media and Communication;
(2) Media Politics, Regulation and Business Strategies;
(3) Media, Culture and Everyday Life
Thematic Group 2: Media Politics, Regulation and Business Strategies
- Media, Activism and Censorship
- Development and Communications Policy
Thematic Group 3: Media, Culture and Everyday Life
- Media Audiences
- Understandingand Managing Diversity in The Media
- Sociology of News
Requirements
You should possess an Upper Second Class Honours degree (or equivalent).
If English is your second Language you should have an IELTS score of 7.0, with 6.5 in each element.
Career Prospects
Students obtain skills to work as social media experts, either as social media and Internet researchers or as social media professionals in various types of organisations.
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