Digital Media and Culture King's College London

Overview

This is the only single honours degree in digital culture and internet studies taught by a dedicated team in a unique location in central London.

The Digital Media and Culture BA at King's College London develops your knowledge of how all aspects of our everyday lives are shaped by the networked technologies we use and the data we produce.

Combining a theoretical emphasis with practical work, we aim to give you the opportunity to work alongside computer scientists and data analysts, with the capacity to critically understand the social, political and economic dimensions of our digital lives.

Key benefits

• Insight into how individuals, companies, governments, and other institutions are being transformed by social media, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital management techniques and practices, data journalism, digital advertising, analytics, visualisations, and more.

• Provides digital research methods training, with no pre-existing understanding of computing or programming needed.

• Recognised as creating world leading research into digital culture.

• Friendly and supportive learning environment.

• Central location offers exciting possibilities for further access to digital cultures, organisations, and companies, as well as cultural institutions.

• Provides a grounding for careers in all aspects of digital culture, including the creative industries such as advertising, journalism, publishing, digital curation and management.

Career prospects