Digital Media & Information Studies/Social & Public Policy

Digital media and information studies is concerned with how digital technologies shape the creation, circulation, and use of content and knowledge across society. It brings a humanities and social science perspective to questions about digital culture, information systems, online communities, data, archives, and the human dimensions of the digital environment. Rather than simply learning to use technology, you learn to analyse it critically, understanding its social, cultural, and ethical implications and the ways in which it transforms how people communicate, remember, and relate to one another.

Social and Public Policy examines the structures through which governments and institutions respond to social needs, manage inequality, and shape the conditions of citizens' lives. It addresses welfare systems, housing, health, education, and the principles and methods through which policies are developed, evaluated, and contested.

At the University of Glasgow, this part-time programme combines both fields, allowing you to study at a pace suited to other commitments while working through the full breadth of both disciplines. The programme includes a year abroad, which provides an international dimension to your study of how digital media and social policy differ across contexts. You will develop research and analytical skills drawing on both humanistic and social scientific approaches, and you will engage with questions that are urgently relevant to contemporary debates about platforms, information quality, digital rights, and social provision.

Graduates are well placed for careers in public administration, digital communications, information management, policy analysis, the third sector, journalism, and arts and cultural organisations, as well as for postgraduate study in digital media, information studies, or social policy.