Bachelor of Arts - Media and Digital Culture (LP33)

How does the media shape social and cultural life? How have digital and internet cultures transformed personal and networked interactions? What is the relationship between the media, mass politics, and governance? What is media power, and who wields it? Whatever the questions that interest students, at Essex they can develop the skills to go beyond simply arguing about them, and instead find the evidence needed to answer them.

At Essex, students investigate what connects people with each other, as well as what divides them. Students consider every aspect of people's daily lives, from how they relate to politicians, celebrities and friends, to how they define themselves, their families, and others.

Students experience a lively, informal environment with many possibilities to pursue a variety of topics including:

• The impact of computer games on crime • Mass media and modern life • The art, film and personal testimony of war • Practical research methods, including designing interview schedules and surveys and handling cultural data

Careers linked to communications and digital culture are varied. The courses provide an excellent training for work within the cultural industries, communications, PR, marketing, publishing and social research.