Creativity, Communication and the Digital Age

Creativity, Communication and the Digital Age introduces students to the dynamic relationship between media and communications technologies and creative and cultural practice. Through a critical and historical analysis of the epochal technological and social changes that led to the emergence of the digital age, it affords students the opportunity to consider how old and new media relate and intersect in the framing of the worlds in which we live. By blending theory and practice, this unit explores how media technology shapes and is shaped by culture, and thereby demonstrates how students and graduates are increasingly digitally literate producers and curators of knowledge and ideas rather than simply consumers or conveyors of the creative output of others.