Interactive Media MA

Course Summary

• Type: MA
• Location: Hertfordshire
• Duration: 1 Year
• Deadline: Ongoing

Course Description

In this award you develop a broad range of skills, knowledge and understanding of the ways in which interactive media can be made, and of the cultural significance of interactive media in the modern world. You can expect to develop authoring approaches and abilities in contemporary software packages, and to explore ways in which interactive media can be devised and created.

Within that broad range you will begin to specialise in areas that interest you most. You explore the many possibilities for innovative artefacts that combine elements of literature, cinema, computer games, installations and interactive toys, creating things that are more than simple hybrids of those forms. Things that include online text or image-based stories, web art and web comics, SoundToys, podcast spoken-voice narratives, txt stories, interactive cinema artefacts, narratives embedded in constructed objects, and new radio forms.

Above all, on this postgraduate degree, you exploit and experiment with the aesthetic possibilities of interactivity to create experiences that fascinate and are resonant with meanings, metaphors and rich emotional responses.