Digital Media Management

Birkbeck, University of London
Postgraduate MA Full-time 1 Year Digital media, production, and technologyMedia studiesPR and communications

About this course

Our MA Digital Media Management is a highly innovative degree providing you with analytical and practical training in digital entrepreneurship, project development and creative online branding and marketing.

Why choose this course?

  • This course is taught by world-leading academics and highly experienced digital industry professionals and is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge most sought after in this area by global companies and organisations.

  • It offers you the opportunity to acquire practical skills in project management, strategic planning and intellectual property at the same time as sparking your creativity through digital branding, interactive storytelling, content production and visual creation.

  • You will have the chance to develop a strong professional network, define your own roadmap, strategy and vision for social media and other digital products and bring your digital portfolio to life.

    What you will learn

    On this digital media management course you will explore the complexity of digital media and its social and cultural context, as well as the broader effects of changes in the industry. You will research new digital media trends and identify new tools, platforms and capabilities to help you realise your online marketing strategies, content production and branding initiatives. Together, we will discuss relevant theoretical and critical knowledge about management frameworks, marketing research and digital media. From this important information, we will devise new digital strategies that are creative and innovative on a global scale.

    How you will learn

    This course is available to study full- or part-time. It has an evening timetable with classes taking place in the evening. Some modules also have occasional classes on Saturday. These classes consist of formal lectures, seminars and practical workshops for hands-on experience. This course also hosts a large number of guest lecturers who are industry experts working in such fields as creative advertising and marketing, consumer goods, the charity sector, and fashion and luxury brands.

    This course focuses on digital media management, but we also offer two interlinked MA Digital Media courses, one which focuses on culture and one which focuses on design aspects.

    We also offer this course as a Postgraduate Certificate. For the Certificate, you study fewer modules and do not complete a final project. On successful completion of the Certificate, you can progress on to the Master’s course.

    Highlights

  • Birkbeck’s targeted smaller class sizes and highly interactive teaching on this course make for a very engaging learning experience.

  • Birkbeck was ranked as one of the top four universities in the UK for its Art and Design research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. We were also among the top 200 HE institutions in the QS World University Rankings in Communication and Media Studies.

  • We focus on teaching and research in film and media, journalism, arts policy and management, with the Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture, the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) as focal points of our research culture.

  • We offer a number of bursaries for postgraduate students.

    Careers and employability

    On graduating successfully from this course, you will have gained an array of important transferable skills including in:

  • project planning and development

  • competitive market analysis

  • online brand strategy

  • content production for social media

  • management frameworks and methods, such as Scrum, Waterfall and Agile.

    It is ideal for those who wish to follow a career path as a:

  • communications/brand manager

  • digital advertising/content/creative project manager

  • digital media entrepreneur/manager/product manager

  • digital project manager

  • social media marketing/product manager

  • web content strategist.
  • Study Options

    This course is available in 3 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: MA

    Location: London

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: MA

    Location: London

    Part-time

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: PgCert

    Location: London

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    1133 Public relations and communications directors
    3417 Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators
    3416 Arts officers, producers and directors
    2493 Public relations professionals
    3554 Advertising and marketing associate professionals
    2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MA
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    London
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Digital media, production, and technology, Media studies, PR and communications