Programme overview

The study programme in a nutshell

Media, Culture & Society is one of the five master Media Studies specialisations. This specialisation offers you key tools to examine and understand the complex and changing roles of the media in our personal, political, and cultural lives.

The interdisciplinary focus of Media, Culture & Society is strengthened by real-life cases and guest lectures from professionals. The programme aims at effectively bringing theory into practice by diving into the communication challenges faced by actors and organizations within the media and other social fields. Next to combining theory and practice, you will also train academic skills such as critical reading, presenting, debating, writing, and conducting empirical research.

What you will learn

As a Media, Culture & Society student, you will gain expertise on key developments in the media world and their wider societal causes and consequences. You will acquire state of the art knowledge about processes of media production, distribution, and reception, while being prepared to systematically examine these processes and their implications. All this will equip you to analyse complex social and cultural phenomena related to the fast-changing media environment.

Master Thesis

The final step of the master specialisation is writing your master thesis. Students before you wrote their master thesis on topics such as ‘Museums, Millennials and Gen Z’, ‘Exploring Contemporary Film Taste and Consumption Practices’ and ‘Sociological Factors Affecting Change in Music Taste’ to name a few.