Digital Media & Information Studies/Music

Digital media and information studies explores how digital content and information are created, distributed, consumed, and understood in contemporary society, bringing a critical and humanistic perspective to questions that are often treated in purely technical terms. It is a discipline that draws on media studies, information science, cultural theory, and the humanities to ask what the digital age means for knowledge, communication, creativity, and power. Pairing it with music adds a further and richly productive dimension, examining how sound, music technology, and musical culture have been transformed by digital media and how music functions within the broader information landscape.

At the University of Glasgow, this part-time combined degree brings a human perspective to the issues of the digital age, examining the creation, use, and impact of digital content in the arts, humanities, and society at large alongside a study of music that engages with its cultural, historical, and technological dimensions. You will develop critical and analytical skills that apply across both fields, learning to think carefully about how digital technologies shape musical practice, how music functions in digital environments, and what these developments mean for culture more broadly. A year abroad is included in the programme, providing the opportunity to engage with these questions in a different cultural and institutional setting.

Graduates from digital media and information studies programmes with a music component are well placed for careers in the media industries, music business, cultural sector, broadcasting, digital publishing, and arts organisations. Roles in content strategy, information management, digital curation, music supervision, and cultural journalism draw directly on the combination of skills the degree develops. Teaching, research, and roles in libraries, archives, and heritage institutions are further destinations.

Postgraduate study in digital humanities, information studies, musicology, or media and communications is a natural route for those who wish to develop specialist expertise or pursue an academic career.