Hi All, A quick forward which might be of interest... I can highly recommend "MA Interactive Media, critical theory and practice" which I completed last year. Tom
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Harwood <g.harw...@gold.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:03 PM It would be great if you could pass this on to any of your networks. Digital Culture is a place of fundamental change. Understanding, shaping and leading that change are graduates from two Masters programmes at the Digital Culture Unit. The problems of computing are increasingly those of the social and those of meaning, interpretation, cultural expression, organization that have been core to the humanities over the last two millennia. At the same time, computing is now central to the activity of thought and communication and both computing and humanities find themselves reconstituted, so that one cannot exist without the other. The Digital Culture Unit at the Centre for Culture Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London brings together researchers who have a special interest and expertise in digital culture in the broadest sense. We make software, texts, installations and investigations and edit journals, make books, art and collaborate with others to take part in and understand the changes computing is making to all forms of life. Drawing closely on this research we run two Masters and a PhD programme. http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/ccsdigitalcultureunit/ MA Interactive Media, critical theory and practice. The MA Interactive Media offers students the opportunity to equally develop theory and practice-based research on the information systems embedded in the technical, cultural, aesthetic, and political structures of society and how we interact with them. Building on the Centre for Cultural Studies research excellence in software studies, media philosophy and digital arts practices, students will learn to employ advanced research and practice-based methodologies to enhance and develop their own skills. Student research and experiments focus on new and historical modes of interaction to develop a critical understanding of technical objects in the way they are implicated in who we are today. The programme will help students prepare for or develop a critical career in the cultural, creative, educational, or computational sectors. Central to the MA is the Centre for Cultural Studies FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) Media Lab. This is a social hub as well as a place to study. Students from around the world with different backgrounds and research interests in software development, design, philosophy, art, activism, media theory, curating, or programming, share, exchange and refine skills and specialized knowledge, developing individual and group projects. As well as attending lectures and seminars, students crucially spend at least 9 hours a week in the Lab with close supervision in this technically and critically challenging environment. The MA is jointly convened by the leading theorist Luciana Parisi (author of Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space, MIT Press) http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/l-parisi/, who teaches Critical Theory and International artist and Lab Director Graham Harwood ("http://yoha.co.uk/"; http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/g-harwood/"; who teaches practice based enquiry. They are joined by theorist Matthew Fuller (editor of Software Studies, co-author of Evil Media, MIT Press) who teaches Software Studies http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/m-fuller/; with special input from Bernard Stiegler (author of Technics and Time) who teaches Media Philosophy http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-interactive-media-critical-theory-practice/ MA/MSc in Creating Social Media This unique theory and practice programme combines computing and cultural studies to provide students with the practical and critical skills to shape the future impact of social media. You will analyse existing ideas, approaches and tools and plan, develop, hack and implement ground-breaking interventions. The MA/MSc is a collaborative theory/practice programme across the Department of Computing and the Centre for Cultural Studies. Based on emerging examples, students explore the technological and intellectual questions coming to prominence with social media and social computing. Social media, at its most interesting, develops new forms of connecting, relating, sharing and competing. Effective and innovative social media creation, therefore, involves theoretical and practical knowledge of both software development and social processes. Students learn how to hack social media, how to conduct digital research, how software tools enable different forms of social practice, and how social media projects can be successfully launched. The capabilities that students develop are helping to transform media, government, social campaigns, NGOs, companies and startups. Hackdays, open innovation and the power of networks are becoming core to the future of many organisations and this programme equips graduates to accelerate the impact of social media in their chosen field. Teaching staff include the course convenor Dan McQuillan (co-founder of Social Innovation Camp) http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/staff/d-mcquillan/ and theorist Matthew Fuller (editor of Software Studies, co-author of Evil Media, MIT Press) http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/m-fuller/, who are joined for specific sessions by leading developers, practitioners and thinkers. http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-creating-social-media/ Contact Centre Manager, Lisa Rabanal l.raba...@gold.ac.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open Systems Association" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opensystemsassociation+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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