The Digital Economy MSc is an interdisciplinary programme that critically analyses how digital technologies are changing the ways we work, produce, exchange, and collaborate. The programme aims to approach and analyse the big questions facing global society today. With a global focus on labour, markets, platforms, and institutions, you'll gain a big picture perspective on the transformations being brought about through digital technologies and you'll gain the tools needed to respond to the challenges facing our world.

Key benefits

• Learn from one of the only programmes that focuses on a critical perspective on the digital economy
• Discover the global impact of new technologies, including topics such as emerging digital divides, global labour markets, digital development and its discontents, and digital colonialism
• Gain a detailed understanding of how platforms and other digital technologies are influencing the culture industries.
• Discover how to critically evaluate the strength and value of innovative business models in the private and public sectors.
• Engage with a variety of optional modules that cover subjects including artificial intelligence, social media, digital assets, data journalism.
• Learn from a uniquely interdisciplinary curriculum that combines insights from areas including economics, sociology, anthropology, management.
• Join a Digital Humanities Department that’s the largest in the UK and a global leader in researching digital and culture.

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