Digital Media & Information Studies/Music

Digital Media and Information Studies combined with Music is a degree that brings together the study of how digital content is created, circulated, and consumed with the academic and analytical engagement with music as a form of cultural expression. Digital Media and Information Studies examines the technologies, platforms, and institutions through which information and media are produced and distributed in the digital age, taking a humanistic and critical perspective on the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the digital world. Music as an academic discipline involves both analytical and contextual study, engaging with musical form, history, and the cultural significance of sound.

At the University of Glasgow, this four-year full-time programme includes a year abroad and draws on the university's strengths in both humanities computing and musicology. You will study how digital technologies are reshaping the creation and consumption of cultural content, including music, bringing a human perspective to questions of platform power, algorithmic curation, digital preservation, and the changing economics of the music industry. The music component gives you both analytical and contextual tools to understand music as an art form and as a cultural and commercial phenomenon.

The year abroad broadens your intellectual perspective and gives you experience in a different academic and cultural environment.

The combination is distinctive and forward-looking: the music industry has been more profoundly reshaped by digital technology than almost any other cultural sector, and graduates who understand both the cultural dimensions of music and the digital systems through which it now travels are unusually well equipped for careers in that landscape.

Graduates move into careers in the music industry, digital media, broadcasting, arts and cultural organisations, digital marketing, content management, information and library services, journalism, and related sectors. Postgraduate study in music technology, digital humanities, musicology, or media studies is also a well-established pathway.