How to complete the first assessment: digisoc1
Official guidance for students taking UCIL26002
This is the official course guidance for the first assessment, digisoc1. You should refer to it when planning, completing and reviewing your work.
We have also recorded an informal introduction to the assessment, which you can access as video, audio (SoundCloud/mp3), or a transcript with links. The podcast doesn’t replace this page, but you may find it a good place to start.
Below is the official assessment brief
digisoc1 assessment brief
Identify an individual or organisation with a public online presence and critically analyse their communications through one or more platforms e.g. website, twitter feed
Topic: Analysis of an individual or organisation’s public online communications through one or more platforms.
Style: Blog post. This means: more informal tone than an essay. You are still required to reference everything you would in an essay, including ideas from other students’ previous writing on this unit.
As you are are writing online, link to what you are referencing within the text of your blog post rather than producing a reference list at the end of your blog post. For help with referencing you can access our page on how to reference in the Digital Society.
Student coursework: previous digisoc1 submissions can be accessed on Medium. You can be inspired by, see what the format looks like and the range of subjects that were covered.
Marking criteria: This is the first and smallest piece of coursework; coverage of learning outcomes is partial, to give you feedback for you to act on when they are assessed more fully later.
- Find, critically evaluate and share information online. Understand the skills needed for an effective and successful online presence. Partially relates to Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3.
- Use the internet and social media to develop your communication skills and share information. Partially relates to Learning Outcome 5.
- Full description of marking criteria for this assessment.
- Full description of each learning outcome, and how they are assessed.
Length: 500 words.
Licensing: Choose any licence available on Medium to share your work. The University maintains its usual rights to store and use your assessed work, but you remain the copyright owner, and you may release/use the work as you wish, as long as you do not change the submitted version until after the unit has finished. This is to enable us to assess it, and other students to read it.
Submission format:
- Public Medium post, published with the tag digisoc1, submitted to the Digital Society publication
- Anonymised Word copy submitted to TurnItIn via Blackboard.
- Full instructions for submission.
You can edit your post until the deadline, but you must not edit, delete or unpublish your work between the deadline and the end of the unit. This is to allow your work to be marked and viewed by others.
Rules and regulations: See Overview: Assessment for details.
Deadline: 12pm (midday) UK time, Friday 16th February 2024.
Weighting within unit: 10%
Please email digisoc@manchester.ac.uk with any questions or problems.
