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Digital Screen Cultures

When you'll study it
Semester 1
CATS points
15
ECTS points
7.5
Level
Level 7
Module lead
Berenike Jung
Academic year
2025-26

Module overview

What differentiates the cinematic screen from the other screens that permeate our everyday lives? This module explores the proliferation of screens in the digital era by chronicling a “history of the screen” that understands digital screen cultures as technologies, media, and interfaces—and as the many uses thereof. It asks us to consider how the present abundance of ambient screens represents both a continuation of and departure from older and analogue understandings of new and emerging media as art, entertainment, and communication. Amongst other possible topics and approaches, we will explore the digital shift in cinema, television, video games, music, virtual reality, and social media to arrive at an understanding of how these digital screen cultures reflect, represent, and interrogate the converged, conglomerated, and globalised media landscape of the twenty-first century.