Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Micro Perspectives on the Digital Economy (30 credits)
- Macro Perspectives on the Digital Economy (30 credits)
- Research Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take four modules (total of 60 credits) from a list of optional modules that may typically include:
- Artificial Intelligence & Society (15 credits)
- Global Digital Audiences (15 credits)
- Digital Innovation (15 credits)
- Social Media, Marketing and Platforms (15 credits)
- Management for Digital Content Industries (15 credits)
- Digital Media, Digital Marketing (15 credits)
- Music and Sound in Digital Societies (15 credits)
- Digital Storytelling (15 credits)
- Web Technologies (15 credits)
- Digital Publishing (15 credits)
- Data Journalism (15 credits)
- Curating & Preserving Digital Culture (15 credits)
Up to 30 credits from master’s modules offered in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, subject to approval.
If you are a part-time student, you will take Micro Perspectives on the Digital Economy and Macro Perspectives on the Digital Economy in your first year and your Research Dissertation in your second. You will divide your 60 optional credits between the two years.
Teaching methods - what to expect
The teaching on this programme will offer you cutting edge scholarship through research-led teaching. You will gain:
- Knowledge and understanding of the effects of digital technologies on contemporary global society.
- Knowledge and understanding of the main critical and theoretical approaches to the analysis of digital at a macro level.
- Knowledge and understanding of the main critical and theoretical approaches to the analysis of digital at a micro level.
- Knowledge and understanding of how digital technologies are unique and lead to innovative forms of products, services and indeed processes too.
- Knowledge and critical understanding that can be applied to practice with regard to managing digital technologies at a micro level.
We will provide you with 120 to 180 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 1,674 hours of independent study. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/practical examinations
- Essays
- Reports
- Projects
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations. Forms of assessment may typically include essays, reports and projects. Coursework contributes approximately 100% to your final mark.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026