Description

Study a unique theory/practice programme combines computing and cultural studies in London. This course will provide you with the practical and critical skills to shape the future of social media. This is a 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time master course.

Based on global examples, you will explore the technological and intellectual questions that have risen to prominence with the social web, including Facebook and Twitter. You will critique existing approaches and tools, and plan, develop, hack and implement ground-breaking applications and campaigns. You will not only analyze - you will create!

What is next after social networking? New social media platforms, at their best, develop new online forms of connecting, relating, sharing and competing. Effective and innovative social media creation, therefore, involves deep theoretical and practical knowledge of both software development and social processes.

You will learn how to develop and hack social media software, how social worlds operate, how software tools enable different forms of social practice, and how new social media projects can be launched successfully. You will accelerate the impact of social media in your chosen field.

You will become proficient in
- Computing skills in software development for new social media platforms, mashups, apps, and tools. This includes both coding and data skills, and a hacker approach
- Theories of social processes and in methods to research them.
- Adapting social media to a variety of technological contexts and to the needs of specific communities
- Surfacing the assumptions and limitations embedded in software
- Critically assessing contemporary discourses about social media and social change
- Project managing social media ventures, and keeping users included at all stages
- Creating social media interventions that address social processes in new ways.

Highlights

Careers in the social media sector include web or mobile designer, web programmer, head of digital, community editor, online editor/managing editor, or project manager. You might work as a social media analyst or consultant. Or you might find yourself founding a start-up.

Skills:
Software development, including coding and data skills; social process analysis and design; research methods; software and social media analysis and design; project development and management.

Subject Areas

• Media And Cultural Studies

Cost in US$:

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This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Goldsmiths, University of London's Mission Statement

We offer a transformative experience, generating knowledge and stimulating self-discovery through creative, radical and intellectually rigorous thinking and practice.

Year Founded

1891