The new master’s in “Digital Media and Society” will start in the winter semester 2018/19. The application deadline is June 15, 2018. The program, which is offered exclusively in English, is aimed at students interested in communication and media research who wish to train for a profoundly mediatized and globalized professional world with international and interdisciplinary orientation.
Unique in Germany
One focal point is the empirical-analytical examination of a digital society characterized by media. This is based on an integrative concept that links communication and media studies with media informatics, media education, study of religions, and film studies. The focus on current and future social developments and challenges related to digitalization is innovative and so far unique in Germany.
Societal background
Digitalization is increasingly changing our everyday lives. The rapidly growing importance of digital data is also changing the role of the media and means of communication in society and what we mean by media and communication sciences. Digitalization and data collection require that career starters critically reconsider the role that media and communication devices play in people’s everyday lives. This also applies to processes in politics, business and culture. The intensive analysis of these developments in different areas of society is a central theme of the new “MA Digital Media and Society”. This puts the degree program at the forefront of these developments and qualifies students for key positions in the digital society, both in the media practice as well as in academia.
More information in the University of Bremen’s Studies Database: https://www.datenbankstudium.uni-bremen.de/studienangebot/studien-berufsfelder/kultur-medien-kunst-musik/detail/study/digital-media-and-society-master/
The ZeMKI homepage: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/de/lehre.html
If you would like to know more about this topic, feel free to contact:
Dr. Leif Kramp
Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI)
University of Bremen
Faculty of Cultural Studies
Phone: +49 421 218-67652
Email: kramp@uni-bremen.de
