Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- locate and use appropriate critical resources
- demonstrate effective critical thinking skills
- clearly articulate written arguments to academic standards
- plan and prioritise learning and research activities
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the work of key cultural writers relevant to digital media and the socio-historical and contemporary intellectual contexts in which those critics work
- the ways audiences/users interact with digital texts within cultural contexts and in relation to identity
- the historical and contemporary relationship between digital media, culture and identity
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- confidently recognise, use and apply specialised terminology as part of your critical thinking and writing about digital media
- demonstrate the skills and methods required for a critical engagement with scholarship on digital media and communications: such as, how to embark on research, how to write a critical essay, or how to reference your scholarly sources and archival research findings
- research and critically engage with academic debates about society, identity and culture in relation to digital media
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 228 |
Teaching | 72 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
D. Nicole Farris (2020). Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age. Springer.
Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray (2019). The Geographies of Digital Sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan.
Cynthia Carter Ching and Brian J. Foley (2012). Constructing the Self in a Digital World. Cambridge University Press.
George Goggin and Christopher Newell (2003). Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media. Roman & Littlefield.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical evaluation | 20% |
Case Study Analysis | 40% |
Critical essay | 40% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical essay | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical essay | 40% |
Critical evaluation | 20% |
Case Study Analysis | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External