Digital Media and Society

About this course

Digital media now shapes how most people get their news, form opinions, build relationships, and understand the world around them. Digital Media and Society takes that pervasive reality seriously as an object of academic study, asking not just how digital platforms work technically but what they do to social life: how they alter public discourse, reinforce or challenge inequalities, create new forms of community and identity, and generate new sites of power and resistance. At Sheffield this degree approaches digital media from a social science perspective, which means you will develop both the theoretical frameworks to analyse the relationship between technology and society and the practical research methods to investigate it empirically. You will study platforms, algorithms, data, journalism, political communication, digital culture, and the ethics and regulation of media organisations

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 100% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 35% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 40% of graduatescards →

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