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New Media and Society – (M.A.)
University of Leicester
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,046 ≈ € 11,300 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Leicester / United Kingdom | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | ||
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Leicester
The MA New Media and Society degree is a one-year full time taught course providing students with a comprehensive grounding in the theories, approaches and research necessary for studying, analyzing, and understanding new media and information structures and processes in both national and global contexts. The focus of the course is on new media technologies and their impact and influences on society, culture, politics and economics. The course aims to introduce and critically examine the advent of the information society in all its dimensions.
Technological innovations, including the new media and digitalisation are discussed in the context of advanced/late modernity and post-industrial capitalism. The course examines the influence of the internet and other new media on the organisation of the economy and culture, political systems, social relationships and socio-psychological aspects of life. It traces the involvement of the new media in redrawing the lines between production and consumption and between participation and exclusion; it follows and critically discusses the implications of new media developments for work and everyday life. Considerable emphasis is placed on the dimension of new media use, and more broadly on the question of technology adoption. Further, the course considers the relationship between new and `mature´ media, such as print and broadcasting, and follows the shifting balance of power between these. Finally, the course is informed by a critical and reflective perspective drawing both on theoretical developments and empirical studies.
The course combines the Department's continuing expertise in the fields of mass communications and new media and technologies. Its development has been closely related to the research profile of teaching staff at the Department who are among the leading scholars in the areas of new media and new technologies.
The MA New Media and Society course will provide you with a critical knowledge of the historical background and key evolution steps in the study of new media and new technologies, along with a thorough grounding in all the more recent developments and trends in the new media. The theoretical and methodological aspects of the course allow students confidently to engage with all aspects of new media and new technologies. The course covers issues such as:
* Historical antecedents of the new media
* Concepts of the new society: the network society and the information society
* The political economy of the new media and digital capitalism
* Policing and regulating the internet
* The `new´ new media: MP3s, 3G phones and the Web 2.0
* New media, information and communication technologies and their social uses and implications.
* The users/consumers of the new media
* New media and empowerment: net-based community activism
* Online journalism and the shifting face of the news
* New media and identity processes: the self, gender, `race´ and ethnicity
* Digital games and gamers
* Young people the new media: the internet `natives´
* Analysis of new media forms, texts, images and representation
* The digital divides: internet and inequality
* Digital art and new forms of expression
* The radical internet
Contents
Course modulesCore:
* New Media: Theories and Concepts
* New Media Cultures
* Graduate Seminar: Identities and Boundaries
* Research Methods and Management I
* Research Methods and Management II
* Dissertation
Option modules (one from the following):
* The International Context of Mass Communication
* News Management, Communication and Social Problems
* Advertising and Cultural Consumption
* Technology, Culture and Power: Global Perspectives
* Media, Celebrity and Fandom
* Film as Mass Communication
* The Digital Economy
* International Political Communication
* Global Cinema
Teaching and assessment methods
Teaching is by a combination of lectures, seminars and tutorials. Assessment is by means of essays, research methods assignments and a dissertation of 15,000-18,000 words.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Entry RequirementsAt least a good second class honours degree in any discipline, though a Social Science degree would be particularly relevant, from an institution recognised by the University. Applicants who do not have a first degree,
but who can demonstrate other relevant qualifications and/or experience may also be considered.
English Language Requirements
Applicants whose first language is not English, and who have not lived in a country where the first language is English for at least three years immediately before the start of their course, need to satisfy the University´s English language requirement.
* From students who take IELTS (the British Council´s International English Language Testing System), we look for an overall score of 6.0 or above for courses in Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Geography, Geology, Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, and 6.5 or above for all other courses.
* From students who take TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), we look for 575/233/90* or above for courses in Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Geography, Geology, Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, and 600/250/100* for all other courses. (*Scores for paper-based/computer-based/internet-based versions of TOEFL)
As well as the internationally-known IELTS and TOEFL tests, the University also accepts many other English language qualifications.
The English Language Programme for International Students
If you do not yet meet our English requirements we can help you to improve your English to the necessary standard. The University´s English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) offers a range of courses to help campus-based students with the English you need for your studies.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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