Produced by vast and rapidly expanding creative and commercial industries, new media have become an important part of many daily activities. Yet we have hardly begun to comprehend how and to what extent they have changed our daily practices and culture. As one of the largest Master’s programmes in the department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, New Media & Digital Culture (NMDC) offers an innovative programme to help students articulate their academic and professional views on vital issues in new media and digital culture.
Using a teaching trajectory that consists of courses, individual teaching modules and extra-curriculum activities such as guest lectures, seminars and conferences, students learn to study research subjects such as codes and metaphors of the Internet, games, mobile communication devices, new music cultures, changing public and political spheres, software appropriation, digital graphics, new media ethics, and so on. We encourage students to engage in a study of new media technologies in their specific social, cultural and political contexts. Depending on those contexts, we draw on interdisciplinary perspectives in which media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, (art) history, musicology, gender studies, political sciences and law can be critically combined.
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