Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the production, distribution, exhibition, reception, and consumption of digital media texts.
- historical and contemporary debates about media technologies.
- how the social media industries are organised, the cultural, political, and economic contexts in which they operate, and their social significance.
- how to engage critically in the analysis of digital media technologies.
- how to apply the skills and techniques studied during your degree to the benefit of industry and society.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- comment on the agenda and priorities of professional practitioners.
- demonstrate the ability to analyse and synthesise complex information and work with a variety of intellectual and professional processes.
- critique digital media designs, policies, and practices and review their impact on industry processes
- analyse, apply and critically evaluate various aspects of digital media theory.
- locate, synthesise, evaluate and organise evidence as part of the process of addressing issues within media studies.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate effectively in variety of modes
- manage an independent research project effectively.
- start developing your skills in decision-making and time management.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 50 |
Guided independent study | 100 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Trebor Scholz (2013). Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory. Routledge.
Sue Curry Jansen, et al. (2011). Media and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan.
David Chandler and Christian Fuchs (Eds) (2019). Digital Objects Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labor and Politics in the Age of Big Data. University of Westminster Press.
Kylie Jarrett (2022). Digital Labor. Polity.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Report | 50% |
Audio-visual assessment | 50% |
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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Report | 50% |
Audio-visual assessment | 50% |
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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Audio-visual assessment | 50% |
Report | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External