Sue Thomas (author)
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Sue Thomas is an author and Professor of New Media in the Faculty of Humanities and the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University
, Leicester, UK. She founded the trAce Online Writing Centre in 1995 where she was Artistic Director until going to De Montfort in January 2005.
She manages social media projects including the NLab Network, CreativeCoffee Club, and Amplified Leicester, a city-wide experiment in social media. She also leads the Transliteracy
Research Group with Kate Pullinger
, and supervises a number of PhD students working in new media related areas.
Her most recent book is the non-fiction travelogue of cyberspace Hello World: travels in virtuality (2004).
De Montfort University
De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...
, Leicester, UK. She founded the trAce Online Writing Centre in 1995 where she was Artistic Director until going to De Montfort in January 2005.
She manages social media projects including the NLab Network, CreativeCoffee Club, and Amplified Leicester, a city-wide experiment in social media. She also leads the Transliteracy
Transliteracy
Transliteracy is 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. The modern meaning of the term combines literacy with the prefix trans-, which means "across;...
Research Group with Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction currently lecturing at De Montfort University, England. She was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill University, Montreal after a year and a half and...
, and supervises a number of PhD students working in new media related areas.
Her most recent book is the non-fiction travelogue of cyberspace Hello World: travels in virtuality (2004).