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Study graduate certificate online with Curtin University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Write for websites and social media. Unpack how power and politics manifest online. Leverage online communication tools and styles to get your message across. Compare the everyday world with the digital space, and see where the two cross over.

Graduate Certificate in Digital and Social Media

Online Power and Resistance

Digital Culture and Everyday Life

Online Games, Play and Gamification

Web Media

The Digital Economy

Engaging Media

Culture to Cultures

Web Communications

Surf online worlds, communities and sub-cultures. Explore the relationship between technology and social bonding. Plug into gaming, social and Indigenous online networks. Analyse how on and offline ways of communicating are beginning to blur.

Social Media, Communities and Networks

Explore where digital life ends and real life begins. Identify ways in which every day social activities like dating and praying have become digitised. Look into the causes and consequences of our increasing social connection with the online world.

Create digital content and understand how the Internet has blurred the boundaries between media production and  consumption. Get to know the new business models and how participatory media has remixed and redistributed traditional media forms.

Love it or hate it, the idea of ‘gamification’ has taken root. Examine what it means to play online, and how gaming can both resist and reinforce traditional power structures. Explore the function of rules, and how hacks and mods change the game.

Understand the ways in which people try to exert, and resist, power online. Explore why algorithms, censorship, surveillance, and infrastructure matter, and how they might be reshaped.

Curtin University Graduate Certificate Courses & Degrees | Open Universities Australia

Course results for Curtin University Postgraduate Media studies Degrees