New Media Studies is an interdisciplinary field that studies the processes and platforms through which digitally-encoded media (photographs, text, audio, film) operate and circulate. New media studies is also the study of how digitally-encoded media products are combined into “new” media forms, such as web sites, webcasts, interactive games, graphic designs, sales and technical information. The Master of Arts in New Media Studies combines critical interpretation and situated practical action in coursework to prepare its graduates to function as productive and responsible individuals in the evolving social contexts created by the new media.