Sue Thomas Biography
- Job Title
- Professor of New Media
- Organisation / Institution
- De Montfort University
- Location
- Leicester, UK
- Website
- http://www.transliteracy.com
- Areas of activity
- Transliteracy - 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.
- About this member
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She leads the Transliteracy Research Group with Kate Pullinger, and supervises a number of PhD students working in new media related areas. She also manages social media projects including the NLab Network, CreativeCoffee Club, and Amplified Leicester, a city-wide experiment in social media. Her research interests include transliteracy, social media, and transdisciplinarity. Her most recent book is the cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004). She is currently writing 'Nature and Cyberspace', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world. http://www.suethomas.net/ Twitter: @suethomas
