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Master in Communication and Digital Cultures

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The Master in Communication and Digital Cultures is a program that prepares students for careers in communication, media analysis, web writing, podcasting, online monitoring, web ethnography, digital cultural mediation, content design, and user experience (UX) research.

Structure of the Master

The master is composed of four blocks:

1. Digital Cultures: Contains five courses focusing on digital cultures and communication.
2. Practical courses supporting students in the development of their dissertation.
3. Methods: analysis and creation: Allows students to refine their technical skills by choosing from 18 courses dedicated to different methods.
4. Digital communication: content and practices: Focuses on online communication practices and the analysis of content circulation on digital networks.

Admission and Practical Information

• Required diploma: Bachelor or equivalent title
• Teaching language: French (good skills in French, level B2 is required to study at the University of Geneva)
• Deadline for applications: February 28 of each year
• Applications must contain a set of documents depending on the academic situation of the candidate and a mini-research project describing a possible research subject.

Advantages of the Master

• Drawing on data science and online ethnography to analyze new media by their own digital methods.
• Learning to master tools such as databases, software for analysis and visualization, search interfaces, and immersing in online communities.
• Exploring digital cultures as fully-fledged social phenomena, appreciating the specificities of each form of communication, each platform, each subculture of the Internet.

Professional Opportunities

• Online ethnography
• Mapping of digital debates and discussions
• Content design for different media and platforms
• Strategic monitoring of digital performance
• Development of online communities
• Research on media audiences and practices

Departments

• Department of Political Science and International Relations
• Department of Sociology
• Department of Geography and Environment
• Department of History, Economy and Society

Institutes

• Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History
• Institute of Environmental Governance and Territorial Development
• Medialab
• Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics
• Institute of Gender Studies
• Institute for Citizenship Studies
• Institute of sociological research