MA in Digital Media and Culture
CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGIES (CIM)
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Call for Applications

Digital processes are transforming culture, the economy and society. This course explores the origins and impact of these changes. It gives you the training to understand and make use of digital media critically, creatively and productively. It will provide skills, knowledge and experience to pursue a professional career in digital media and creative industries, and equally qualify you with the profile for further doctoral study.

Throughout the degree, you’ll develop a critical and practice-based understanding of the impact of links, queries, downloads and uploads, file formats, archives, databases and network infrastructure. Core modules introduce you to the conceptual and methodological dimensions of researching the digital from an interdisciplinary perspective. You then select two or three option modules in areas that cover the theoretical and socioeconomic aspects of topics from urban science,
playful media, user experience design, post-digital aesthetics, big data and complexity. A dissertation allows you to explore your own questions and interests in more depth.

Core modules:

- Approaches to the Digital
- Digital Objects, Digital Methods
- Dissertation

Teaching staff: Dr. Nerea Calvillo, Dr. Michael Dieter, Dr. Sybille
Lammes, Dr. Noortje Marres, Dr. Greg McInerney, Dr. Joao Porto de Albuquerque, Dr. Nathaniel Tkacz, Dr. Emma Uprichard

Masters Optional Modules: Visualisation; Big Data Research: Hype or Revolution?; Complexity in the Social Sciences; Media and Social Theory; Digital Sociology; Post-Digital Books; User Interface Cultures: Design, Method and Critique; Playful Media: Ludification in the Digital Age.

Assessment: A combination of essays, design projects, technical report writing, practice assessments, group work and presentations and an individual research project.

Course Laptops: All students are given a laptop to use.

As a research centre, CIM regularly hosts international scholars, artists and practitioners for workshops, conferences and talks throughout the year. Previous guests have included: Adam Arvidsson, Louise Amoore, Christian Ulrik Andersen, David M. Berry, Will Davis, Jennifer Gabrys, Orit Halpern, Geert Lovink, Philip Mirowski, Shintaro Miyazaki, Stefanie Posavec, Tony Sampson and Trebor Scholz, among others.

Who should apply?

This course is aimed at students from a range of disciplinary
backgrounds who want to learn more about the emerging field of digital culture and media. Although no specific background is required, your application must demonstrate an ability to work creatively and independently as well as an interest in contemporary developments in computing, media and culture, and digital data in general.

Bursaries are available for Home/EU applicants.

See our website for more information:
https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/depts/cim/taughtcourses/ma-digitalmedia/

Or contact the Course Convenor and the Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses, Dr. Michael Dieter: M.J.Dieter@warwick.ac.uk.