Digital Culture - King's College London

Digital Culture

"From social media to email, everyone uses digital cultures and the Internet and this degree will equip you to understand, implement and work in these cultures."

Duration

3 years

Fees

Home/EU: £9,000

Requirements

Preferred subjects

Preferred subjects (preference for at least one of the following):

• Art and Design,
• English (Literature or Language)
• Communication and Culture
• History
• Media Studies
• Philosophy

A levels

AAA. See 'preferred subjects'

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (QCF from 2010)

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma with grades of DDD considered, and note preferred subjects. Combinations of the BTEC Level 3 Diploma (with Distinction) and other qualifications (such as A-levels) considered.

Prospectus

YEAR 1

Students will study the following compulsory modules:

• 4AAVC100 Digital Culture and Society I4AAVC101 Digital Economy and Audiences
• 4AAVC102 Digital Politics
• 4AAVC103 History of Networked Technologies
• 4AAVC104 Digital Methods I: Approaches
• 4AAVC105 Knowledge Representation
• 4AAVC106 Theories of New Media

YEAR 2 CORE

• 5AAVC100 Digital Culture and Society II
• 5AAVC200 Digital Methods Two: Working with Data
• 5AAVC300 Critical Debates in Digital Culture

YEAR 2 OPTIONS

• 5AAVC201 Representations of Cultural Heritage5AAVC202 Information Ethics and Digital Rights Activism
• 5AAVC203 Foundations of Web and Mobile Technologies
• 5AAVC204 Management for the Digital Domain I
• 5AAVC205 Exploring Digital Arts
• 5AAVC206 Digital Subcultures and Communities Around the World
• 5AAVC207 Platform Studies
• 5AAVC208 Social Media
• 5AAVC209 Internship in Digital Culture

YEAR 3 CORE

• 6AAVC100 Digital Culture and Society III
• 6AAVC200 Digital Culture Thesis (dissertation)
• 6AAVC300 Digital Culture Project (dissertation)

YEAR 3 OPTIONS

• 6AAVC301 Digital Textuality and Digital Readership
• 6AAVC302 Information Politics
• 6AAVC303 Representations of Material Culture
• 6AAVC304 Contemporary Trends in Digital Theory
• 6AAVC305 Management for the Digital Domain II
• 6AAVC306 Creativity and Making in Digital Culture
• 6AAVC307 Big Data, Culture and Society
• 6AAVC308 Philosophy of Information
• 6AAVC309 Cultural Analytics

"Who might want to do the degree

• You will be interested in the effects of the digital world and the internet on the way we live.

• You will be thinking of contributing to future ways that the digital and the internet will shape the way we live.

• You may be interested in Facebook, but you will also be concerned to understand social media broadly. You may be interested in Youtube, but you will also be interested in the future of television and film in a digital world. You may be fascinated by Google, but you will want to understand the importance of search in a digital world. You may see that the internet is global but also want to know how it is experienced differently around the world."