Creativity, Communication and the Digital Age

Creativity, Communication and the Digital Age introduces students to the dynamic relationship between media and communications technologies and creative and cultural practice, with a particular emphasis on storytelling. Arguing that storytelling is intrinsic to human cultures, the unit affords students the opportunity to consider how digital communication technologies are transforming the ways we tell and receive stories. It does this by engaging students in a critical analysis of prominent forms of digital storytelling, while also assisting them in telling a story of their own through a medium of their choosing. By blending theory and practice, this unit explores how media technology shapes and is shaped by culture, and thereby demonstrates how students and graduates are increasingly digitally literate producers and curators of knowledge and stories rather than simply consumers or conveyors of the creative output of others.