Digital Asset & Media Management

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MA

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Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open
The MA addresses the management of digital assets, an increasingly important area not just in public institutions such as libraries, archives and museums but also in the wider content industry such as publishing or social media. DAM consists of tasks and decisions surrounding ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storage and retrieval of digital assets, such as text, video, audio and image files

Arts & Humanities graduate class
KEY BENEFITS
  • For our teaching, we draw on a wide range of expertise, offering insights into curatorial and archival practices of dealing with digital assets as well as into technologies and wider socio-economic questions such as rights and project management.
  • The tutors offer unrivalled expertise in technologies and processes that allow the quick and efficient storage, retrieval and reuse of digital assets. They come from a diverse and highly interdisciplinary background, having run digital archives or worked in the digital industries in the past.
  • Through the internship programme students can have direct access to some of the world's most important culture and media institutions.
  • Close links and regular speakers from the content sector give students insights and up-to-the-minute knowledge of the subject area.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Tobias Blanke 020 7848 1975, Simon Tanner 020-7848 2861 and Sheila Anderson 020 7848 1981
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, two years PT, September to September.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
All institutions concerned with the effective management of their information and media assets, for example, museums and galleries; archives; media organisations; publishing houses; government and industry; healthcare and law firms.
Year of entry 2013
Offered by
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