Digital Sociology (Taught)

UK's top ranked sociology department

Our sociology department is the UK’s top-ranked department for sociological research. [REF 2021]

The MSc in Digital Sociology directly responds to a growing need for graduates to be able to study and analyse a world that continues to undergo rapid digital transformation.

Digital and computational sociology courses will give you a vital theoretical foundation for understanding and analysing how digital technologies and data are shaping our social institutions, social relations, and everyday life.

Our courses will enable you to conduct sociological research through new forms of social data, such as social media data and other types of 'digital trace' data that are so central to modern social science data.

Who this programme is for

The MSc in Digital Sociology is intended for anyone who wants to undertake specialised training in sociological approaches for understanding the digital world.

This programme is for students who want to understand, as well as learn to study and critique, digital technologies and the complex ways in which they shape:

• society

• social institutions

• culture

While a sociological background is not strictly required, familiarity with the social sciences will be helpful for you as a student on this programme.