[Air-L] Call for Applications – MA in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

[Anne Helmond]

# Call for Applications 2017-18
# MA New Media and Digital Culture (University of Amsterdam)

One-year and two-year international Master’s programs in New Media
available:
* MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (one year, full time)
* Research MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (two years, full
time)

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# MA New Media and Digital Culture

The MA Program in Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture offers a
comprehensive and critical approach to new media research, practices and
theory. It is an internationally renowned program in critical media theory,
dedicated to the study of the social transformations brought about by
digital culture. The program provides in-depth training in the latest
digital research methods, with the opportunity to participate in data
sprints and to collaborate with international researchers. It is situated
within a pioneering new media cultural scene in Amsterdam and an academic
environment ranked among the top 6 universities worldwide (QS World
University Rankings by Subject 2016: Communication & Media Studies).

# Application and Deadlines

As of mid-November 2016, it will be possible to apply for a Master's
programme at the Graduate School of Humanities. All Master's start in
September 2017.
http://gsh.uva.nl/prospective-masters-students/application/application.html

For more information about the program, please see the full call:
http://bit.ly/NMDC_Call1718

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Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor | Program Director MA New Media &
Digital Culture
University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT  Amsterdam | The
Netherlands
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.helmond/ | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ |
@silvertje

Latest publications:

Berry, David M., Erik Borra, Anne Helmond, Jean-Christophe Plantin, and
Jill Walker Rettberg. 2015. “The Data Sprint Approach: Exploring the Field
of Digital Humanities through Amazon’s Application Programming Interface.”
Digital Humanities Quarterly 9 (3).
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/3/000222/000222.html.

Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data
Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305115603080.