Digital and Social Media

  • Understand and apply key concepts of Internet Studies and apply trans-disciplinary thinking to the application and creation of ideas concerning networked technologies of information and communication
  • Think critically, creatively and reflectively so as to imagine, design, use and critique networked technologies of information and communication
  • Conduct appropriate scholarly and professional research to find, access, organise, evaluate and synthesise information through a variety of media and apply that information to the construction of knowledge
  • Communicate and facilitate communication through a variety of media, for different purposes, and for different audiences
  • Use the Internet and related networked technologies of information and communication with an understanding of the complex interaction of political, cultural, and economic forces that constitutes technology as social
  • Further develop skills and knowledge through self-directed learning
  • Understand the complex interplay of local, national and global factors that influence and are expressed through the Internet and networked technologies of information and communication
  • Recognise and value cultural difference and understand its significance in relation to network technologies and their use in society for communication and information
  • Act ethically and responsibly to use, sustain and expand the social, business and cultural networks that exist via the Internet, when working independently and in teams