Recent changes in information and communication technologies - high speed Internet, mobile telecommunications, peer-to-peer networks, and other new media forms - have dramatic implications for a wide range of everyday practices, in work, culture, and interpersonal relationships. The Digital Communication and Culture programs take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding these changes. They examine the complex interplay between technical infrastructures, design practices, policy frameworks, organisational models, cultural identities, technologies and social power. They explore the historical contexts of recent developments in ICTs, drawing on recent research and theory on the social, cultural and political implications of new media.

Digital Communication and Culture suits people in creative, strategic and project management roles in the industries where changes in information and communication technologies are having the most dramatic impact. These industries are diverse, from traditional media, the public sector, advertising, education, museums, culture, entertainment, web, telecommunications, IT and games. The courses will be particularly valuable for professionals moving into the emerging content, services and leadership roles opening up in broadband, mobile telecommunications and computer entertainment.