Nottingham Guest Speaker Series
Generation Net: Arts and Culture in the 21st Century
University of Nottingham
This is a final reminder that the fourth and final speaker in our
interdisciplinary guest speaker series, Professor Sue Thomas, will be
speaking on Thursday 28th May.
Admission is free. All are welcome. To book a place at the talk,
please email Iain Smith at [log in to unmask]
'Transliteracy: A Unifying Concept'
Professor Sue Thomas
Thursday 28th May 2009, 6pm-7pm followed by refreshments
Room A18 (Arts Graduate Centre) Trent Building, University of Nottingham.
Abstract
Transliteracy is currently defined as 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. This talk introduces the concept and offers it for future development.
See http://www.transliteracy.com
Academic Bio:
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative
Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK. Her most recent book is the cyberspace travelogue
'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004) and she is currently
writing 'The Wild Surmise', a study of nature and cyberspace. Her
research interests include transliteracy, social media, and
transdisciplinarity.
http://www.suethomas.net/
Attendance is Free. All are Welcome. Please RSVP to [log in to unmask]
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Part of the Generation Net lecture series. For further information
visit http://generationnet.ning.com/
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
Executive Committee
MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network
website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
Editorial Board
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
website: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
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