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Humanities
Sue ThomasDepartment of Media, Film and JournalismProfessor of New Media Contact Details:
Sue Thomas is a Research Professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities. Her research interests include the history of technology, transliteracy, transdisciplinarity, and social media innovation. She divides her time between research into the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world for her forthcoming book Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors (Bloomsbury Academic 2012), and practice-based projects exploring ways in which new social media ideas impact on the wider community. Most recently she devised and directed Amplified Leicester, a city-wide experiment in social media funded by NESTA, and she is collaborating with the DMU Centre for Social Action on the new Amplified Resilient Community, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She has managed the NLab Network of small business innovators since 2005 and chairs the DMU Connected Communities Grand Challenge Programme and is currently managing Dr Souvik Mukherjee, Impact Research Fellow. She serves on the DMU Transdisciplinary Group Committee. In 2010 she gave the 2010 Leicester Mercury Media Lecture at The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, entitled ‘Journalists Who Tweet’. She also featured in several interviews on digital scholarship for the British Library video series Growing Knowledge: The evolution of research (http://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/) 2010-11 Her work on transliteracy (http://www.transliteracy.com) - ‘the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks’ - is being developed by a number of researchers worldwide and having an increasing impact in the e-learning and information science communities. She regularly organises social media events, colloquia, seminars, unconferences and workshops including the Women, Business and Blogging Conference (2007); the Creative Social Networks Conference (2008), an international Transliteracy Conference (2009), and the Amplified Leicester Showcase and Vision2020 events of 2010. Her books include Hello World: travels in virtuality (Raw Nerve, 2004) called by Canadian critic Carolyn Guertin "a Baedeker to the cyber-realm"; the novel Correspondence, a cyborg pastoral short-listed for several prizes including the Arthur C Clarke Award (London: The Women's Press, 1992; New York: Overlook, 1993); Water, a Northern romance (New York: Overlook, 1994; UK: Five Leaves, 1995); Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders (1995) and an edited anthology Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women (New York: Overlook, 1994; London: Vintage, 1994). Until 2004 she was Artistic Director of the trAce Online Writing Centre (at Nottingham Trent University), which she founded in 1995, and where she produced and managed many successful digital writing projects, most notably The Noon Quilt (1998) now an iconic image of the early days of the web. More recently she worked with Penguin Books and Kate Pullinger on the groundbreaking experimental wikinovel A Million Penguins. She is a Literary Advisor to the British Council and a member of several editorial and advisory boards including Convergence, an International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies; the US-based Electronic Literature Organization; Scan Journal of Media Arts and Culture, Macquarie University; the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech; the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and the JISC-funded Emerge project supporting the creation of a sustainable community of practice to develop and exploit new emergent technologies for use in educational settings. Professor Thomas is interested in supervising postgraduate research into any of the areas described above, especially co-supervisions of transdisciplinary and practice-based projects via the Institute of Creative Technologies on such topics as:
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