MA Social Media

Teaching for the MA Social Media begins next Wednesday. Some of our students who have traveled the furthest arrived last week, and yesterday enrollment began. We have a programme of induction that starts today. The social media intake will meet the rest of our postgraduate students with whom they will be sharing some teaching and, I hope a lot of interesting debate around contemporary media issues.

What we’re doing this week

Tomorrow we are sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Café along with the MA Online Journalism class. The café describes itself as: “a place for people interested in social media to gather, get acquainted, chat, plot, scheme, and share.” This is a great opportunity for our students to start building a professional network here in Birmingham.

After that we are heading to the BCC DIY hack day (registration here). This event will give students an opportunity to get involved in a community project, continue their professional networking, and experience first hand some of the activism that Birmingham is becoming known for.

Students will meet in Baker Building Costa at 9:15am, we’re heading over to Perry Barr train station at 9:30am. If you;re late, just make your wy under your own steam. I suggest everyone who wants to come to Moseley afterward invests in a Daytripper ticket.

What happens then?

Classes start next week, and I’ll start stepping away from this blog a little. Our students will begin to take ownership of the blog, reporting on their findings. I’ll still be here, posting occasionally, but will mostly be blogging at Interactive Cultures. In addition to students, expect to hear more from my colleagues on the MA teaching team and updates on some of the research and knowledge transfer projects that are taking place at BCU.

We’ll also be out and about at various local events, for example we’re all attending Digital Districts on 14th October.

It’s been a great few months developing the course. We’ve generated a lot of interest since we started talking about it at WxWM. Thanks for your interest thus far. Stick with us, it’s just getting interesting.