10/10/2022
Students on our core module Introduction to Digital Culture grapple with the question: what are interfaces? One answer is they are much more than GUIs…
Birkbeck's BA Digital Culture and Media helps you to think critically about, with and through digital technologies and cultures.
Are you fascinated by the rise of digital technologies, and their impacts on contemporary media and culture? Do you want to develop yourself into an independent thinker capable of negotiating rapid shifts in the media and creative industries today? During this course you will be challenged, not only to think about digital culture and media but to also think through these topics by engaging directl
10/10/2022
Students on our core module Introduction to Digital Culture grapple with the question: what are interfaces? One answer is they are much more than GUIs…
10/10/2022
Bruno Latour - one of the most important thinkers in science and technology studies, and a significant influence on digital media theory and research - sadly passed away on 9th October 2022
Bruno Latour, French philosopher and anthropologist, dies aged 75 Latour’s work on how humanity perceives the climate emergency won praise around the world
06/10/2022
Professor Kathleen Booth (née Britten), a software programmer who designed and built Birkbeck, University of London's first computer, and was one of the founding members of Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science, sadly passed away on Thursday 29 September 2022.
Remembering Professor Kathleen Booth, 1922-2022 | Birkbeck Perspectives The pioneering computer scientist was instrumental in founding Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science and her legacy lives on in the College today. We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Kathleen Booth (née Britten) on Thursday 29 September 2022.
29/09/2022
Induction selfie - from a programme where you can study selfies
19/04/2022
The Digital Age is Destroying Us: Jonathan Crary on What Technology Means in Late Capitalism
The Digital Age is Destroying Us “Yes, it’s night and another world is rising. Harsh, cynical, illiterate, amnesiac, revolving without reason . . . Spread out, flattened, as if perspective and vanishing point had been abolished . …
01/11/2021
and Birkbeck FMACS students discussing ‘what data can do’, drawing on the work of Deborah Lupton.
20/10/2021
Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres
In: Information, Communication & Society (Open Access)
Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres (2021). Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres. Information, Communication & Society. Ahead of Print.
19/10/2021
Glow Aesthetics: Ubiquitous cameras are changing the meaning of makeup, which is being used to enhance how we look in images and not in the flesh: Our image on a screen is increasingly how we “really” look to other people
Glow Aesthetics — Real Life Ubiquitous cameras are changing the meaning of makeup
18/10/2021
Students from the BA Digital Culture and Media and Birkbeck FMACS mapping their local ‘internet of things’.
18/10/2021
Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage: WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South.
Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South.
15/10/2021
An entire NFT museum is on the market: A self-contained metaverse featuring everything from 2D images to 3D experiences.
An entire NFT museum is on the market A self-contained metaverse featuring everything from 2D images to 3D experiences.
14/10/2021
How the secrets of the Pandora Papers were freed: The Pandora Papers leak includes a colossal 2.94 terabytes of data. Unravelling the contents was no easy task
How the secrets of the Pandora Papers were freed The Pandora Papers leak includes a colossal 2.94 terabytes of data. Unravelling the contents was no easy task