Teaching & modules
Modules
Required modules
- Micro Perspectives on the Digital Economy (30 credits)
- Macro Perspectives on the Digital Economy (30 credits)
- Dissertation: MSc Digital Economy (60 credits)
Optional modules
You will take 60 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include the below.
- Global Digital Audiences (15 credits)
- Digital Innovation (15 credits)
- Digital Asset & Media Management Technologies in Practice (15 credits)
- Digital Media, Digital Marketing (15 credits)
- Music and Sound in Digital Societies (15 credits)
- Web Technologies (15 credits)
- Digital Publishing (15 credits)
- Data journalism and Digital Investigations (15 credits)
- Communication and Consumption of Cultural Heritage (15 credits)
- Curating & Preserving Digital Culture (15 credits)
- Crowds and Clouds - Digital Ecosystems (15 credits)
- Open Cultures (15 credits)
- Artificial Intelligence & Society (15 credits)
- Theorising Data and AI (30 credits)
- The Sharing Economy and Its Discontents (15 credits)
- Management for Digital Content Industries (15 credits)
- iData: Understanding Personal Data Ecosystems (15 credits)
- Social Media, Marketing and Platforms (15 credits)
- Digital Industries and Internet Culture (15 credits)
- Ethnography for the Internet (15 credits)
- Understanding Human- Computer Interaction Design (15 credits)
- Radical Design: Theory, Practice, Politics (15 credits)
- Identity and Exclusions in the Digital Age (15 credits)
- The Cultural Web: Building a Humanities Website (15 credits)
- Social Media, Protest and Political Campaigning (15 credits)
- Bodies, Identities and Digital Media (15 credits)
- Creator Cultures (15 credits)
- Globalisation of the Tech Industry (15 credits)
Full-time: 180 credits earned through 2 x 30 credit core module, 1 x 60 credit core Dissertation/Project module and 60 credits of optional modules.
Part-time: Year one - 90 credits earned through 2 x 30 core module and 30 credits (2 x 15) of optional modules.
Year two - 90 credits earned through 1 x 60 credit core Dissertation/Project module and 30 credits (2 x 15) of optional modules.
External Modules
By approval of the Programme Coordinator, up to 30 credits of optional modules can be taken from a range of existing modules run by DDH and those offered in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, subject to approval.
King's Language Centre Modules
Students are not permitted to take a module from the King’s Language Centre as part of credit/award.
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.
If you are a full-time student, we will provide you with 160 to 200 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars across the year. If you are a part-time student, we will provide you with approximately 90 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars each year.
We expect you to undertake around 1,600 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.