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Digital and Social Media Development Futures
Postgraduate | CUR-MIC508 | 2022
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Work as part of a small team to deliver innovative web media content that encourages user participation. Strengthen your understanding of audiences and how they engage online. Predict future advances in the field of internet communications.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
FEE-HELP available
Digital and Social Media Development Futures
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- develop, produce and effectively present professional digital and social media projects
- create digital portfolios which are industry-standard and embodying principles of discoverability, digital and social media concepts such as convergence and spreadability
- appropriately apply principles of discoverability, spreadability, convergence and participation across multiple social media platforms and digital media formats to produce effective integrated web media
- critically evaluate the social and ethical challenges and opportunities of producing digital and social media
- critically evaluate possible future developments in the industrial, creative and social contexts of digital and social media production
- Introduction & Self-Evaluation
- Changing the Interface
- Team & Project
- Narrative, Audiences & Producers
- Digital & Social Media Artefact Production
- Digital & Social Media Engagement Recap
- Social Media Production & Outreach
- Social Responsibility & Industry
- Global Engagement
- Present & Future Horizons
- onclusions: Where Are You Heading?
This subject was previously known as Web Development Project.
This is the final unit within the Digital and Social Media course and involves working to produce innovative online media content that both explores and embodies the qualities of discoverable, spreadable, streaming, converging and participatory media. You will primarily be engaged in pitching, planning and executing a small team project as well as building a professional industry standard online portfolio, including critical reflections on the challenges and opportunities of collaboratively producing digital and social media with each other and with potential others. You will also be required to critically situate and contextualise your learning in terms of the broader concepts and issues developed across all of your Digital and Social Media units, in particular, Web Media.
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- Digital & Social Media Outreach (40%)
- Digital & Social Media Artefact (30%)
- Essay (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- CUR-MIC-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Digital and Social Media
- CUR-MIC-MAS-2022 - Master of Digital and Social Media
- CUR-MIC-GDI-2022 - Graduate Diploma in Digital and Social Media
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-GCE
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-MAS
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-GDI
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE