Digital Communication and Culture

Overview

The Digital Communication and Culture program at the University of Sydney provides a comprehensive platform from which to engage with digital technologies and their cultural contexts. You will gain an understanding of the recent literature on technological change and its cultural contexts.

Why study with us?

You will develop a critical understanding of the following areas:

• aesthetics and politics of computer games and mobile media

• production and circulation of knowledge in the digital era

• diverse meanings and operations of networks

• the activity of digital media audiences 

• diverse forms of regulation of the internet.

Career Pathways

Graduates work as creatives, journalists, educators, strategists and policymakers in technology domains and in a range of technologically mediated industries and organisations including media, the public sector, advertising, education, museums, culture, entertainment, telecommunications, IT and games.

This program is particularly valuable for professionals moving into the emerging content, services and leadership roles opening up in broadband, mobile telecommunications and computer entertainment.