BA Digital Media and Society
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33; 32, with B in the extended essay
About this course
BA in Digital Media and Society and Film Studies, a sociology and film studies degree focused on the social and cultural implications of digital media technologies. Core topics include Programming, Computer Architecture, Statistics, Research Methods, Marketing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Human Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students examine the ethical dimensions of digital media products while employing digital methods for social research. The first year introduces foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Data Visualisation: Coding and Design, Digital Media and Society I: Core Concepts, Introduction to Media and Communication, Digital Media and Society II: Contemporary Issues, and Introduction to Digital Methods Research, alongside optional studies like Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. In the second year, students build research skills with compulsory modules including Digital Media and Social Change, Advancing with Digital Methods, Digital Storytelling, and Social Research Design and Methods, while choosing from diverse options such as Media Law for Journalists and The Sociology of Crime. The final year centres on independent research through the compulsory Dissertation in Digital Media and Society module, complemented by optional modules covering topics such as Digital Marketing and Consumer Culture, Global Data Industries, Organised Crime and Illicit Markets, and Algorithms, AI and Society.
Modules
- Data Visualisation: Coding and Design
- Digital Media and Society I: Core Concepts
- Introduction to Media and Communication
- Digital Media and Society II: Contemporary Issues
- Introduction to Digital Methods Research
- Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
- Press, Politics and Democracy
- Theories of Society
- Sociology of hope, community and social justice
- Making Sense of Education: Facts, Fiction and Data
- Digital Media and Social Change
- Advancing with Digital Methods
- Digital Storytelling
- Social Research Design and Methods
- Media Law for Journalists
- Sociological Theory and Analysis
- The Sociology of Crime
- Sociology of Media and Consumer Culture
- Doing Quantitative Sociological Research
- Sociology of Family: Continuity and Change
- Children and Digital Cultures
- Journalism and Digital Activism for Social Justice
- Men, Feminism and Gender relations
- Sociology of the Body
- In Sickness and in Health: The Sociology of Medicine
- Crime, Justice and Social Policy
- Understanding 'Race' and Migration
- Social Problems: Policy and Practice
- Urban Analytics
- Ethics: From Theory to Practice
- Feminism
- Ethnography of Faith, Spirituality and Wellbeing
- Chinese Business and Management
- Contemporary Chinese Society and Culture
- Population and Environment in China
- East Asian Cinema
- Digital East Asia
- Dissertation in Digital Media and Society
- Digital Media Work Placement
- Digital Marketing and Consumer Culture
- Global Data Industries
- Organised Crime and Illicit Markets
- Digital Identities
- Protest, Movements and Social Change
- Whiteness, Power and Privilege
- Reimagining Care: Families, Services and Policies
- Journalism in Film and Fiction
- Intimacy and Personal Relationships
- Queer Identities in the Media
- Algorithms, AI and Society
- Sex Work: Rights, Regulation and Resistance
- Digital Health
- What it means to be human
- Education@Sheffield
- Free Speech and Censorship