BA Digital Culture and Media at Birkbeck

BA Digital Culture and Media at Birkbeck Birkbeck's BA Digital Culture and Media helps you to think critically about, with and through digital technologies and cultures.

Are you fascinated by the rise of digital technologies, and their impacts on contemporary media and culture? Do you want to develop yourself into an independent thinker capable of negotiating rapid shifts in the media and creative industries today? During this course you will be challenged, not only to think about digital culture and media but to also think through these topics by engaging directl

y with digital and traditional media forms. The BA Digital Culture and Media gives you important insight into the world where new media permeate almost every aspect of our lives. You will explore some of the most recent topics in digital culture and media, from mobile technologies and artificial intelligence to social media influencers and algorithmic bias. These topics will frequently be put into a longer historical context, enabling you to find out how the media forms we use and depend on today have been made possible. This course is your opportunity to learn about cutting-edge academic perspectives, while also developing skills and knowledge in applied media practice. Your course will involve not only critical reading of academic literature on digital culture and media, but practice-led activities, projects and experimentation. It will help you develop a broad and highly transferable understanding of digital culture and media suited to our twenty-first-century context.

Students on our core module Introduction to Digital Culture grapple with the question: what are interfaces? One answer i...
10/10/2022

Students on our core module Introduction to Digital Culture grapple with the question: what are interfaces? One answer is they are much more than GUIs…

Bruno Latour - one of the most important thinkers in science and technology studies, and a significant influence on digi...
10/10/2022

Bruno Latour - one of the most important thinkers in science and technology studies, and a significant influence on digital media theory and research - sadly passed away on 9th October 2022

Latour’s work on how humanity perceives the climate emergency won praise around the world

Professor Kathleen Booth (née Britten), a software programmer who designed and built Birkbeck, University of London's fi...
06/10/2022

Professor Kathleen Booth (née Britten), a software programmer who designed and built Birkbeck, University of London's first computer, and was one of the founding members of Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science, sadly passed away on Thursday 29 September 2022.

The pioneering computer scientist was instrumental in founding Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science and her legacy lives on in the College today. We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Kathleen Booth (née Britten) on Thursday 29 September 2022.

Induction selfie - from a programme where you can study selfies
29/09/2022

Induction selfie - from a programme where you can study selfies

The Digital Age is Destroying Us: Jonathan Crary on What Technology Means in Late Capitalism
19/04/2022

The Digital Age is Destroying Us: Jonathan Crary on What Technology Means in Late Capitalism

“Yes, it’s night and another world is rising. Harsh, cynical, illiterate, amnesiac, revolving without reason . . . Spread out, flattened, as if perspective and vanishing point had been abolished . …

and Birkbeck FMACS students discussing ‘what data can do’, drawing on the work of Deborah Lupton.
01/11/2021

and Birkbeck FMACS students discussing ‘what data can do’, drawing on the work of Deborah Lupton.

Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres In: Information, Communication & Society (Open Acce...
20/10/2021

Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres

In: Information, Communication & Society (Open Access)

(2021). Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres. Information, Communication & Society. Ahead of Print.

Glow Aesthetics: Ubiquitous cameras are changing the meaning of makeup, which is being used to enhance how we look in im...
19/10/2021

Glow Aesthetics: Ubiquitous cameras are changing the meaning of makeup, which is being used to enhance how we look in images and not in the flesh: Our image on a screen is increasingly how we “really” look to other people

Ubiquitous cameras are changing the meaning of makeup

Students from the BA Digital Culture and Media and Birkbeck FMACS mapping their local ‘internet of things’.
18/10/2021

Students from the BA Digital Culture and Media and Birkbeck FMACS mapping their local ‘internet of things’.

Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage: WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South.
18/10/2021

Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage: WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South.

WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South.

An entire NFT museum is on the market: A self-contained metaverse featuring everything from 2D images to 3D experiences.
15/10/2021

An entire NFT museum is on the market: A self-contained metaverse featuring everything from 2D images to 3D experiences.

A self-contained metaverse featuring everything from 2D images to 3D experiences.

How the secrets of the Pandora Papers were freed: The Pandora Papers leak includes a colossal 2.94 terabytes of data. Un...
14/10/2021

How the secrets of the Pandora Papers were freed: The Pandora Papers leak includes a colossal 2.94 terabytes of data. Unravelling the contents was no easy task

The Pandora Papers leak includes a colossal 2.94 terabytes of data. Unravelling the contents was no easy task

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