Program Overview

Advances in digital technology have dramatically increased the demand for specialists in digital and social information engagement. A deep understanding of digital and social media is key to success across a range of professions, from media and marketing to policy-making and advocacy.

This course builds on the graduate certificate to provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to become an astute, engaged professional communicator on the internet.

You’ll develop advanced skills in creating, maintaining and managing online communications across web media, publishing and presence, online collaboration and building and maintaining networks and virtual communities.

You will learn the fundamentals of online communications, including how to identify and understand emerging trends, such as artificial intelligence, social media influencers, big data and online analytics.

You will explore how the internet is changing political systems, reshaping societies, cultures and economies, and how you can apply this knowledge in your workplace practice. You will have the opportunity to focus on specialist areas of communications and policy, content management, training and development.

What you'll learn

• Understand and apply at an advanced level key concepts of Internet Studies and apply transdisciplinary 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 advanced 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 independent research and self-directed learning
• Understand and utilise in their research and work 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