To complete the Digital Society MSc, students enrolled in the programme will be able to submit a Digital Project Portfolio as their final work. The Digital Project Portfolio consists of four connected parts: the design of practical project to be carried out by the student in a non-academic environment (15%), the implementation of the proposed work (15%), the outcomes of the project (a piece of artistic work, a campaign, solution for an organisational problem etc.- 40%) and a supporting report in which the ways in which digitalisation is used, questioned, interpreted through the project (30%).

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The semester I core courses in the Digital Society MSc, (SOCIO 5103) and  (SOCIO 5102) need to be completed as a condition of enrolment to the Independent Study Portfolio. Additionally, students who enrol to the Independent Study Portfolio must also enrol in the semester II core course The Living Lab (SOCIO 5104).

The mark for the portfolio will be based firstly on the quality, creativity and/or effectiveness of the practical work (e.g. technological, artistic, entrepreneurial, political etc.) in the broad area of digital society. This will be evaluated by the non-academic experts with whom the programme aims to cooperate.

The Independent Study Portfolio consists of four connected parts: the design of practical project to be carried out by the student in a non-academic environment (15%), the implementation of the proposed work (15%), the outcomes of the project (a piece of artistic work, a campaign, solution for an organisational problem etc.- 40%) and a supporting report in which the ways in which digitalisation is used, questioned, interpreted through the project (30%).

The quality of the final report will be assessed by the academic staff. The maximum length of the final report is 15,000 words.

The project aims to give students the confidence and freedom to work creatively on issues related to social transformations in the digital age. Students may find non-academic ways to understand and reflect on the experience of being directly and actively engaged with digitalization in an organization; they may work alongside producers of digital technology, or end users in different contexts, and they may explore potential routes for technologically informed social change. Alternatively, students may carry out projects of awareness-raising about the challenges of digitalization or reflect on these challenges through artistic work.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Demonstrate extensive and integrated knowledge of practices of living and working in digital times.

■ Identify, conceptualise and define new and abstract issues derived from the rapid process of digitalization.

■ Apply critical evaluation and synthesis to socio-technical change by planning and executing a project of research, investigation or practical development.

■ Exercise substantial autonomy and initiative in professional and equivalent activities linked with their project.

■ Communicate the goals and the outcomes of their independent digital project, using appropriate methods with academic and non-academic audiences and peers.