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

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