MA Digital Media Culture at Birkbeck, University of London

This MA Digital Media Culture provides you with the crucial knowledge you need to analyse and comprehend today’s fast-evolving digital environments. It offers you critical thinking about digital culture enhanced by direct exposure to digital media software, technologies and design practices.

Faculty: School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication  |  Duration: One year full-time, on campus; Two years part-time, on campus  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: October 2027 | January 2028  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

On this MA Digital Media Culture you will acquire the research skills, approaches and methods that will allow you to understand current forms of digital culture, while also anticipating future developments in digital media. Together, we will explore the influence of digital media technologies on contemporary culture and consider how the growing spread of digital images and information have changed how we create and communicate. Compulsory modules include Digital Culture, Digital Design Thinking.

Career pathways

Some of our graduates from this course have gone on to be employed at the following organisations: The Ada Lovelace Institute for Research on AI and Society, Clusta Social Media Platform, Nissan, King’s College London, The NHS, US/UK Fulbright Commission, LeanLab Education Technology.

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