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Linnaeus University

On 1st January 2010, Linnaeus Univer-sity opened its doors or the rst time as

the result o a merger between Kalmarand Vxj Universities. With 35,000students and 2,000 employees, LinnaeusUniversity is one o the larger universitiesin Sweden.

Te concept o close connections is a guid-ing principle in our work. At LinnaeusUniversity there is an active student lie,

with close relations between students,researchers and other members o staf.

Vxj

Campus Vxj is the natural meetingpoint or students in Vxj. On campus

there are student residences, lecture halls,libraries, restaurants and pubs, lakes andrecreation areas.

Te entrepreneurial attitude aroundVxj is well known. Only in Vxj,there are over 7,000 companies, mainly inthe I and service sector, manuacturingindustries, urniture, orest and wood.

Tis i perect or students who needtraining and thesis work.

Contact and more information

For more inormation, please contact:

School o Computer Science, Physics andMathematics, dm@lnu.seProgramme co-ordinator Arianit Kur ti,arianit.kurti@lnu.se

Or visit us on the web:

Media technology web site,Lnu.se/media-technologyProgram web site, Lnu.se/education/programmes/namt2?l=en

For more inormation about the

programme, prerequisites and

how you apply, visit Lnu.seSocial Media and

Web echnologiesMaster Programme in Media echnology

Youube, Facebook and witter are just some examples o social web services

that are changing the current media landscape. Tese web platorms have

created needs and demands that require new skills, knowledge and expertise

in order to tackle current and uture social and technical challenges. Our

Master Programme in Social Media and Web echnologies aims to provide

a high quality education or preparing you to ace those needs and demands.

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New media landscapesTe advent o the Web 2.0 has brought a lot ochanges in the way Internet is perceived, rom apredominantly text-based medium to a rich mediaplatorm on which people can share knowledge andexperiences. Active user participation enabled bythe advances in the web technologies shited the

Web rom a simple presentation medium towardsa complex inrastructure that can be dened as anarchitecture o participation. Tese changes havebeen maniested in the orm o various services andplatorms that enable User Generated Content to becreated, shared, published and exchanged.

In these continuously evolving landscapes, there isa need or knowledge and skills that ocus on thedesign, development and deployment o innovativeservices and web-based platorms. Tese diferentareas represent the oundations upon which ourMaster Programme in Social Media and Web ech-nologies is built.

Programme aimTe aim o this programme is to ofer in-depthknowledge and skills related to the eld o Media

echnology in general, with a special orientationtowards Social Media and Web echnologies.

Te programme provides students with solid theo-retical oundations; knowledge and engineering skillsthat will enable them to identiy, manage and solvetechnical, organizational and design aspects relatedto the global digital media and Internet market using

web and mobile technologies. Te programme isprovided in English and will start in the autumn o2011.

During the course o this programme, you will beactively involved in lectures, seminars, lab activ ities,hands-on workshops and projects, as well as supervi-sion and individual tutoring.

Programme outlineTe Master Programme in Social Media and Webechnologies is multidisciplinary in nature andcombines courses and expertise rom diferent areas,namely: web technologies, design and interaction,social media and I business. Te programmeconsists o two years o ul l-time studies.

Te programme ollows the prerequisites or second-level studies (advanced level) and candidates thatsuccessully complete this programme wil l be eligibleor a Master o Science (two years) with specializa-tion in Social Media and Web echnologies. Majorsubject: Media echnology.

Social media and web technologies are starting to radically change the social

patterns and norms o how people communicate. Tere is a need or new

approaches to understand these processes, as well as new knowledge about

how technologies should be designed in light o these changes.

Career prospectsAter the completion o this programme, studentswill have very promising opportunities regardingemployment. Social Media and Web echnologiesare present and used in almost all business activitiesnowadays.

Tis programme will qualiy you to work at positionssuch as web developer, interaction designer, I strat-egist or new media editor at diferent companies orat large international corporations. You will be ableto start new innovative companies based on the skillsand expertise gained during your studies. Further-more you can also continue with research studiesleading towards a doctoral degree.

Research connectionsWith the theoretical oundations and practical skillsofered by our master programme, there are plenty o

research opportunities that you can pursue. Currentresearch within Media echnology at LinnaeusUniversity is carried out at CeLeK (Center orLearning and Knowledge echnologies, www.celekt.ino). Our cu rrent research track includes two mainorientations:

Te development o mobile & wireless systemsand innovative web applications and tools tosupport collaborative learning.

Te design o interactive learning environmentsto support collaborative discovery learning aboutcomplex domains.

Activities carried out in these lines o research areunded by national and international unding agen-cies. In order to provide good connections with ourmaster programme, already during your studies we

will introduce some o our current research topics inour courses, in the orm o lectures or possible topicsor the nal degree project.

Chris Jangelv, Business Developer at Visma Spcs AB

InternetArchitectures

(7,5 credits)

Elective Course I(7,5 credits)

Web and MobileDevelopment(7,5 credits)

angibleUser Interfaces

(7,5 credits)

Scientic Teoriesand Methods(7,5 credits)

Cross-Media Designand Production

(7,5 credits)

Social MediaEcosystems(7,5 credits)

Foundations ofComputational Media

(7,5 credits)

Adaptive andSemantic Web

(7,5 credits)

Elective Course II(7,5 credits)

Elective Course III(7,5 credits)

Network Society andInternet Cultures

(7,5 credits)

Master Tesis(30 credits)

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