M.S. in Digital Media

The Master of Digital Media program at Georgia Tech offers arts and humanities based advanced study in digital media design and critique. Its faculty includes leading theorists and practitioners who approach the design of digital artifacts as a defining creative and intellectual challenge of the 21st century, comparable in its cultural complexity and historical importance to the inventions of the book, the photograph and the moving image. The diverse student body brings a wide range of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds to a studio and seminar based curriculum which prepares them for leadership positions as designers, producers and critical analysts in a changing digital culture.

Program Description

Georgia Tech’s Digital Media Program is helping to establish the standard for professional education in information design and to raise the level of professional practice. It is aimed at providing a principle-based education that will guide its graduates over the course of their careers in a rapidly changing technical environment.

Digital Media students follow a studio- and seminar-based curriculum that places digital design within technical, cultural, aesthetic, and historical contexts. The program rests on the assumption that digital media belong to an historical, aesthetic, and conceptual continuum, whose legacy and future must be addressed in order to understand the digital artifact in its own right.

Because of its technical and disciplinary diversity, the Digital Media program can offer students both the practical skills and the theoretical foundations they need to assume leadership roles as designers, producers, and critical analysts of digital media. Graduates of the program pursue careers in commerce, entertainment, art, and education, with a variety of national and international organizations. Some go on to Ph.D. work in computer science or the humanities.

The Digital Media program usually enrolls 20-25 full-time students each Fall Semester. Digital Media students come from a range of educational backgrounds and have diverse intellectual and creative objectives. Most have significant work experience in a professional field. Students come with academic backgrounds from such fields as acting, anthropology, architecture, communications, computer science, engineering, English studies, graphic design, history, journalism, law, library science, management, marketing, philosophy, social work, software development, technical writing, and television production. The program welcomes a socially diverse and international student body.

For More Information:

Prof. Janet H. Murray
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA 30332-0165
janet.murray@lcc.gatech.edu