The modern world is permeated and shaped by digital technologies in all areas of life: communication, learning, playing, creativity, dating, therapy —you name it.
The Master's Degree Programme in Sustainable Digital Life (SDL) focuses on enhancing our digital lives: the digital systems surrounding us as well as the ways of using, regulating, and designing them. The programme offers a unique course portfolio at the intersection of social sciences, design, and media. The programme educates interdisciplinary experts who understand the digital society from the viewpoints of culture and ethics, as well as comprehend digital systems and how they are produced.
The programme:Aims to educate creative, analytical and critical experts in digital media and communication and information technology; experts who are capable of renewing the society by envisioning, designing, and evaluating digital services that are ethically sustainable, accessible for everyone, and mindful of social and cultural diversity.
Focuses on sustainability not only related to digital things but also the way of learning: we ensure that future experts possess skills that are adaptive, far-reaching, and transformative in a variety of fields.
Has a special focus on accessibility: learning to understand the diversity of users and ways of using digital systems, how to evaluate accessibility of existing systems, and how to take accessibility into account in design.
Is genuinely multidisciplinary: the teachers of the programme represent various academic disciplines.
The programme's core courses include digital literacy, fundamentals of service design, sustainable design, diverse digital culture, accessibility and gamification. The programme is strongly project-based: the students carry out realistic research and design projects throughout their studies and connect the theoretical and methodological lessons to these projects.
Sustainability in Tampere University
We believe that promoting and educating the development of sustainable technology is a necessary approach to achieve the goal of sustainability.
As a herald of scholarship, our university recognizes that sustainability is a foundational imperative for various essential systemic entities.
Sustainability highlights the interconnectedness of economic, social and ecological processes.
Sustainable Digital Life especially focuses on the study of the long-term structural change in digital and social systems with the aim of maintaining social cohesion and solidarity while acknowledging the need to reduce environmental and resource consumption to a sustainable level.
There are many entities to which the necessity of sustainability pertains: the nature, societies and cultures, the humankind. We want to cherish the diversity and resilience within all of these.
Considering the modern digital lives, there are various recent developments and trends that need to be addressed in the pursuit of sustainability, such as the increasing carbon footprint of computation, increasing power of internet companies, challenges in regulating technology development, homogenization of the digital culture, people’s sense of losing control of their digital lives, information addiction, increasing loneliness and isolation and radicalization through technology.
Considering the modern digital lives, the perspective of the users of technology integrated to their everyday practices call for critical skills as literacies on technology. From sustainability perspective, that is about ecological digital literacy.
Study contentsSustainable Digital Life programme aims to make the digital life more sustainable and accessible for all by cherishing diversity and combining critical thinking with a creative mindset.
The goal is to educate creative, analytical and critical experts in digital media, communication and information technology, who are capable of renewing the society by designing, facilitating and evaluating digital services that are ethically sustainable, accessible for everyone and mindful of social and cultural diversity. The students are aware of the diversity of digital cultures and recognize the varieties of their value bases. They understand the role of digital media and communication technology in today’s and future society and recognize its ethical and societal risks.
The education is project-based, since students carry out projects throughout their studies and connect their learning to these projects. Students create portfolios and identify their own skills during the studies. Programme's core courses offer students fundamentals of service design, sustainable design, digital literacy, diverse digital culture, accessibility and gamification. Students will study joint core courses along with optional studies in which they can focus on a theme. Students will acquire skills which are needed both in working life and in academia.
Program is genuinely multidisciplinary; programs teachers represents eight different fields: human-technology interaction, media education, audio studies, theatre and drama research, media culture, information studies, game studies and visual journalism.
Career opportunitiesThe goal is to educate students both for existing professions and emerging future professions. The graduates can work for example as designers, experts or analysts in the domains of digital media, information and communication services, various digitalization projects, and application of artificial intelligence services.
After graduation the employment opportunities depend also on student’s specialization. Students can specialize themselves with different modules in addition to studying secondary subjects and by that create unique know-how combinations.
Sustainable Digital Life helps students connect with working life as a part of their studies by collaborating with companies and organizations. Students get to know some of the employers already during the studies and get a possibility to carry out projects from real clients from our strategic collaborators.
Visit the Master of Social Sciences in Sustainable Digital Life page on the Tampere University website for more details!
Entry RequirementsBachelor’s degree - nationally recognized first cycle degree which corresponds to at least 180 ECTS (European credits) or to three years of full-time study from a relevant field for the Master’s degree programme that you’re applying to from a recognised institution of higher education the Bachelor's degree completed in a university outside Finland must provide eligibility for university-level master's degree studies in the country in which it was awarded.
AND a good command of the English language for academic purposes. For more information, please see: View Website
Please see the university website for further information on fees for this course.
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