Digital Media: Culture and Identity

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• research and critically engage with academic debates about society, identity and culture in relation to digital media
• 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

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the historical and contemporary relationship between digital media, culture and identity
• 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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• locate and use appropriate critical resources
• clearly articulate written arguments to academic standards
• plan and prioritise learning and research activities
• demonstrate effective critical thinking skills

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.