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FS30240

Academic Year 2024/2025

Digital Media Cultures (FS30240)

Subject:
Film Studies
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
English, Drama & Film
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Anthony McIntyre
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Digital media cultures wield an enormous influence on 21st-century life. This module equips students with the theoretical means to evaluate the role of digital media within contemporary culture and understand its history. Students will engage with a variety of perspectives on digital media. They will look beyond pervasive discursive constructions of digital utopianism and critique the infrastructures and institutions that shape the use and creation of digital media content. The module will adopt a non-Eurocentric approach to addressing some critical debates in contemporary lives, including access and representation, inequalities, and transnational communities and diasporas. Students will engage with the main discussions around the role and impact of global media players, including the "big tech" companies, on digital economies and futures. Throughout, students will investigate and critically reflect on how class, race, place, and gender shape contemporary digital cultures.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

• Detail key historical events in the development of digital cultures

• Understand the relationships between technology, digital media and society

• Comprehend the environmental impact of digital media infrastructures

• Assess the impact of social media proliferation on both civic cultures and

constructions of selfhood

• Engage with contemporary debates regarding inequalities that persist across digital

media

• Reflect upon personal engagement and usage of digital media considering scholarly

debate on the topic

• Write an essay that critically engages with contemporary digital media

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

12
Specified Learning Activities

70
Autonomous Student Learning

40
Total

122

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:


This module will include lectures, class discussions, small group work, critical writing, and screenings.





Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Three short questions to be answered at approximately 500 words each (1500 in total). Week 6 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
40
 No
Assignment(Including Essay): Final Essay. Students answer one question from a selection provided. The recommended length is approximately 1500 words. Week 14 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
60
 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Diretnan Dikwal-Bot Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Thurs 16:00 - 16:50
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