Digital Policy

University College Dublin - UCD

Course code
W471 W472
QQI level
Level 9
NFQ type
Level 9 NFQ
Duration
1 year full-time, 2 years part-time.
Attendance
Full time
CAO points
Degree - Masters (Level 9 NFQ)
Dublin
NFQ Level 9

Course summary

The innovative programme mixes the abstract and the applied with core modules from the School of Information and Communication Studies and optional modules from other Schools in the College of Social Sciences and Law (COSSL) and Computer Science. This programme introduces students to basic concepts and issues in digital policy, giving a historical and critical understanding of how to theorise digital objects and environments by learning to situate them in perspectives such as platform capitalism, governance, data infrastructures, information analytics, interface critique and software studies.