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Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time (with an additional three months to submit dissertation, if required)
This MSc (previously known as Information Communication and Society) aims to address the concerns of those with an active interest in leading edges of the development of Social Media, equipping students with technological understanding and social awareness. There is a pressing need for graduates with an understanding of technical issues as well as the social dimensions of informational issues.
The MSc Social Media is a joint degree of the Schools of Social Sciences and Informatics, bringing together long-established and internationally-acclaimed expertise at City in Information Science and the Sociology of Communications. The two departments have been leading centres in their respective fields for decades, and together they offer an impressive range of expertise in the informational area.
The MSc Social Media aims to provide a combination of technical and social competencies and skills central to working in today’s information society.
The course is designed to prepare you to create, access and manage digital information in your own field of expertise and interest so that you can fully employ technology to address social and political aspects of information, communication and society today. It allows maximum flexibility and opportunities for customising your programme, while ensuring that each student develops knowledge and skills in the foundational elements of technology, management and social/political analysis. You will learn theories and concepts of how social behaviours have been reformed by technological innovations, such as Web 2.0 and mobility of information.
Taught by experts in their fields, the course will provide you with established methodological approaches with which to address the social connotations of the wealth and ubiquity of information.
Internships offer an exceptional opportunity to make you stand out in a competitive job market place. We have extensive experience in helping students to secure placement employment in the IT industry.
You will usually need to have an upper second class Honours degree in any social-sciences related subject, but we also welcome applications from those who with substantial experience in the media, information services or the communication sectors.
Full-time EU: £7,500; Part-time EU: £4,000; Full-time Non EU: £11,500
82% of City’s Sociology graduates are in employment or further study within 6 months of completing their course.
Upon graduation, you will be prepared for employment in local, national and international government institutions and related organisations, nongovernmental organisations, where a combined expertise in the use of technology to manage and disseminate digital information, and societal aspects of the transformations the ‘information age’ introduced, are required.
We foresee a range of career destinations for graduates of this degree: e.g. information specialists in public sector organisations – such as head of ICT; information analysts and implementation consultants – typically focused on supporting the delivery of large scale collaborative performance and information management programmes across the UK public sector. Journalists working with new media, web presence consultants and managers, information officers in various sectors such as health and local government, librarians with digital responsibilities and interests, and think tank employees.
You take four core modules (plus the dissertation) and three elective modules from the selection below.
Core modules:
Elective modules:
Sociology modules (choose one module from this list)
Informatics modules (choose two modules from this list)
NB: Elective module choices are subject to availability.
Read the full programme specification.
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