Media, Culture and Everyday Life University of Liverpool

Overview

The Media, Culture and Everyday Life programme from University of Liverpool addresses the changes, challenges and unprecedented possibilities that digital media bring to everyday life in the twenty-first century, while emphasizing the importance of studying media in a wider historical context.

Key Features

• By exploring the ways in which media and everyday life are intertwined, the programme addresses broader questions of modernity and social change, ranging from experiences of everyday space, time and mobility, to the impacts of media on self and identity, how we access, ‘store’ or remember the past, and the broader environmental, infrastructural and social impacts of digital technologies.
• Informed by cutting-edge research in the field of cultural, media and communication studies, the programme is widely interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on perspectives from disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, cultural geography, visual culture, urban studies, games and memory studies.

Career prospects

• The MA Media, Culture and Everyday Life programme will provide you with rigorous academic training in the broad interdisciplinary field of everyday life studies with a particular focus on media cultures and practices. The professional skills that you will develop upon completion of the programme will prepare you well for a wide range of potential employment areas.
• The programme’s central focus on media cultures and practices provides strong grounding for careers in the wider media industries, as well as cognate professions such as public relations, marketing, and consultancy positions focused around cultural policy and innovations/initiatives/practices in the arts, culture and creative sectors.
• If you wish to continue your academic studies you will find a supportive and nurturing research environment that prepares you well for doctoral-level research activities. Career pathways that follow this route include employment in higher education (teaching and/or research), or teaching at secondary and further education levels.