This MSc Digital Economies (South East Asia) enables students to study how and why digital artefacts are transforming the way we work, transact, collaborate, and control global labour, institutions, and markets. Also, to understand what is implied by digital products, process, services, monetization and orchestration. The programme content will in part be focused on the digital economies of South East Asia.

Key benefits

• Knowledge and understanding of the effects of digital artefacts on contemporary society.
• Knowledge and understanding of the main critical and theoretical approaches to the analysis of the digital economy at a macro level.
• Knowledge and understanding of the main critical and theoretical approaches to the analysis of the digital economy at a micro level.
• Knowledge and understanding of how digital artefacts are unique and lead to innovative forms of products, services and processes.
• Knowledge and critical understanding that can be applied to practice with regard to managing digital artefacts at a micro level.
• Hybrid Learning Experience: Benefit from a hybrid teaching approach combining virtual lectures, seminars, and face-to-face components, including an intensive summer module focused on Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
• Knowledge and understanding of how all these things can be applied to the context of South East Asia.

Please note this course is only available to students in Southeast Asia. This programme is designed to teach you a solid knowledge and understanding of how digital artefacts are unique, how they lead to innovation, and their effects on contemporary society. Youll learn about the main critical and theoretical approaches to the analysis of the digital at macro and micro levels, and discover how to apply this to the management of digital artefacts. The first core module tackles the subject from a micro perspective, focusing on digital artefacts, like open-source software, to discuss their implications on communities, companies, and ecosystems. You will consider theories that address commons-based peer production, transaction cost theory, and beyond. At the same time, youll learn how to establish and apply digital initiatives, critically analyse existing innovation strategies, and scrutinise the ethics of digital creation. The second core module will shift your perspective to the macro and teach a systematic and critical reflection on the digital economy on a broader level. Youll consider the challenges of rising tech companies and contemplate their political economy when debating major topics. You will be able to discuss topics such as addiction and attention, surveillance capitalism, and data colonialism while exploring the role of power in the digital economy and how new inequalities of power are emerging. By the end, youll be prepared to explain these changes and outline systematic connections across the digital economy as a whole. The specialist modules will allow you to deepen your understanding of the digital economy by specializing in key areas that intersect with the digital. The programme will include content specifically on the digital future of South East Asia. Your digital economies MSc will conclude with your final research project. This gives you the opportunity to gather your own research and become an expert in a topic that interests you.

Employability

As a Digital Economies MSc graduate, youll be well-placed to pursue a career that requires an understanding of the digital economy or to expand your experience with creative roles. The skills you develop are likely to be particularly transferable to work in digital companies and positions that need skills in digital business models, ecosystem strategies, social media management, analytics, CRM management, digital advertising, market research, and platform scaling and growth analysis.