Part time MA Programs in Digital Media in London United Kingdom 2023

This exciting multidisciplinary Master's course is fully designed to reflect the needs of contemporary interactive media industries, bringing together creative technologies, interactivity, design practices and entrepreneurship with the user in mind. The Interactive Media Practice MA places the user at the centre of the experience and focuses on design and content creation in areas such as mobile app development, wearables, games, rich media websites, interactive guides and installations, immersive XR, next-generation advertising reality systems, to powerful eMarketing and entrepreneurship through innovation protocol and Digital Transformation. The course embraces a hackathon culture with specialist labs that boast newly designed flexible learning spaces for students to work more collaboratively on innovation protocols fostering cross-pollination of new ideas creatively. Many students will work on industry briefs as well as their own projects independently within and outside our course clusters. This collaborative approach to learning and research often leads to successful projects that are commercially viable and can quickly gain industry recognition and also contribute to students’ portfolios. -

This unique interdisciplinary programme offers critical grounded knowledge of global media and digital cultures in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with a focus on the dynamics between media and politics and diplomacy, media and social/political change, media and development, media and conflict, media and representation and media and identities. The degree prepares students for jobs in the media and communication sectors, government agencies, non-governmental organisations, UN bodies and international organisations. Taught by leading scholars and drawing on SOAS expertise in the Global South, the programme provides students with a non-Eurocentric approach to addressing some of the key debates in contemporary lives – populism, hate speech, fake news, access and representation, inequalities (with a specific focus on gender and minorities) and transnational communities and diasporas. The course will expose students to the main discussions around the role and impact of global media players, including the tech companies on digital economies and futures. -