• To discover how digital technologies and platforms have influenced the creation and dissemination of music for audiovisual media
• To evaluate the ethical or political effects of modern digital music production
• To understand how artists use digital technologies to empower new subcultures of consumers and artists
• To assess audience engagement with audio-visual digital culture.

(LO1) Understand how digital technologies and platforms have influenced the creation and dissemination of music for audio-visual media.

(LO2) Evaluate the ethical or political effects and audience reception of modern digital music production.

(LO3) Understand how artists use digital technologies to empower new subcultures of consumers and artists.

(LO4) Create a digital music case study that analyses a contemporary audio-visual media object and its audience using methods such as media archaeology and virtual ethnography.

(S1) Critical thinking and problem solving - Evaluation.

(S2) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis.

(S3) Communication (oral, written, and visual) - Media analysis.

(S4) Communication (oral, written, and visual) - Presentation skills.

Topics covered in this module may include:
• Digital remixing of music and sound in screen media (e.g., mashups)
• Digital music streaming and apps: practices, consumption, ethics
• AI and music/sound/voice (e.g., deepfakes and other synthetic media; smart speakers)
• Music/sound and digital communication (e.g., the development of ringtones or use of digital sounds for alarms)
• Sound/music and social media (e.g., TikTok; livestreamed videos)
• Sound/music and new media (VR, AR, and other emerging technologies)

Resources will be made available to students through Canvas, UoL’s Learning Management System. Students will be expected to source supplementary resources to develop their skills outside of contact hours. Students will be expected to produce written work outside of the scheduled teaching hours.

Lectures will be delivered in teaching rooms.
Workshops will vary depending on makeup of students in the class and their respective skills. One possible model is to have four workshops to discuss four different case studies in depth, as a model for student assessment work. Another model is to have a 1-Time Podcast and Video Essay Workshops will be delivered in the computer labs. Note: this is a four-week long module and contact hours reflect this format. The majority of teaching will be delivered face to face on campus. Online delivery will be used to complement the on-campus delivery and where technology affords a better learning experience.