# Call for Applications 2017-18 # MA New Media and Digital Culture (University of Amsterdam) One-year and two-year international Master’s programs in New Media available: * MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (one year, full time) * Research MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (two years, full time) -- # MA New Media and Digital Culture The MA Program in Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive and critical approach to new media research, practices and theory. It is an internationally renowned program in critical media theory, dedicated to the study of the social transformations brought about by digital culture. The program provides in-depth training in the latest digital research methods, with the opportunity to participate in data sprints and to collaborate with international researchers. It is situated within a pioneering new media cultural scene in Amsterdam and an academic environment ranked among the top 6 universities worldwide (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016: Communication & Media Studies). # Application and Deadlines As of mid-November 2016, it will be possible to apply for a Master's programme at the Graduate School of Humanities. All Master's start in September 2017. http://gsh.uva.nl/prospective-masters-students/application/application.html For more information about the program, please see the full call: http://bit.ly/NMDC_Call1718 --- Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor | Program Director MA New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.helmond/ | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ | @silvertje Latest publications: Berry, David M., Erik Borra, Anne Helmond, Jean-Christophe Plantin, and Jill Walker Rettberg. 2015. “The Data Sprint Approach: Exploring the Field of Digital Humanities through Amazon’s Application Programming Interface.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9 (3). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/3/000222/000222.html. Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305115603080.