Digital Media: Culture and Identity

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• 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
• the work of key cultural writers relevant to digital media and the socio-historical and contemporary intellectual contexts in which those critics work

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• 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
• confidently recognise, use and apply specialised terminology as part of your critical thinking and writing about digital media

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

On this module you will learn about the crucial interconnections between digital media, culture, identity and society. Through knowledge of key scholars and established critical debates, you will see how a broad range of digital media representations (from film, television and radio to social media, gaming and podcasts) inform and are informed by wider culture and ideas about the self and how these interact with and are shaped by the technologies of these media forms.

Teaching and learning methods

Tutor-led lectures and seminars

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

George Goggin and Christopher Newell (2003). Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media. Roman & Littlefield.

Cynthia Carter Ching and Brian J. Foley (2012). Constructing the Self in a Digital World. Cambridge University Press.

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.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External