Welcome to Digital Cultures

Digital Cultures is an innovative cross-disciplinary program that critically investigates the social and cultural impacts of new digital media technologies. It combines scholarly critical depth with contemporary relevance. How do emerging technologies influence the ways information and knowledge are created and circulated? How are networks transforming local and global politics and social relations?
How have the arts, commerce, government, media and entertainment adopted digital technologies? What are the implications of the digital for work, play, power, identity, and everyday life?

The Digital Cultures Program puts intelligent, interactive, mobile and
networked technologies into context, drawing on media studies, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, games studies and cyberculture studies. The program combines face-to-face coursework with exercises in computer labs using web production tools, social software, blogs and wikis.

The Digital Cultures Program offers a major in Digital Cultures, and an
Honours Program that allows students to undertake a research project and become an expert in a recent development in digital media.

The Digital Cultures major

To complete a major in Digital Cultures, students must complete 36
senior credit points in Digital Cultures units of study including up to
12 credit points from approved cross-listed units of study.
Digital Cultures senior units of study:
ARIN2600 Technocultures
ARIN2610 Web Production
ARIN2620 Cyberworlds
ARIN2630 Digital Arts
ARIN3640 Computer Games and Simulation
ARIN3620 Researching Digital Cultures

Cross-listed units of study
DECO2010 Collaborative Virtual Environments
ENGL2652 Modern Rhetoric
GCST2601 Introducing Media and Popular Culture
GCST2602 Suffragettes to Cyborgs
LNGS2613 Computer Applications in Linguistics
SCLG2610 Science, Technology and Social Change