Digital Media II: Collaborative Critical Practice

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Producing a project that critically reflects on current and future challenges related to digital media theory and practices

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Design and create a digital media project and exhibition installation (or other representation) that demonstrates effective communication techniques, coherent design, creative problem-solving and is critically engaged in debates relevant to critical digital media studies

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use inclusive, ethical and sustainable practices to design and evaluate a creative digital media project that responds to critical media challenges, evidencing project management techniques, effective group work, research methods, and critical reflection on the strengths and limitations of your ideas through tutor and peer engagement

Indicative areas for exploration can include:

• Digital game cultures
• Film and screen industries
• News media organisations and practices
• Media Arts and Infrastructures

In the past this module has included strands such as ‘Media Infrastructures and Identities’, ’Alternative Journalism and Artificial Intelligence’, ‘Screen Practices’, ‘Games and Media’, ‘Media Arts, Emerging Tech and Artificial Intelligence’, ‘Transmedia Storytelling’, ‘Participatory Cultures’ and ‘Media and Ecology’. The strands change each year to reflect the expertise of the teaching team and the new developments in the digital media and technologies.

Teaching methods can include:

• Exhibition
• Interactive workshops
• Practice-based instruction and tutorials
• Visiting lecturers
• Dedicated technician assistance

Learning activities can include:

• Reflection on verbal or written feedback offered during seminars, tutorials, group activities
• Group and collaborative projects and tasks
• Study visits
• Peer group learning and peer assessment tasks
• Class discussion/critiques
• Student presentations
• Exhibitions

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Group Presentation and Individual Commentary

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.