Sue Thomas

How LinkedIn and Facebook can improve your professional practice

Slides for my talk at the School of Pharmacy at DMU, 29 October 2008

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Transliteracy Workshop 24 Oct 08

I gave a talk about transliteracy to students from the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media + IOCT Master's students + Music Technology students - an eclectic group! I mixed them up to work with people they'd not met before and asked them to map the way transliteracy works within the IOCT Lab.

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The First Monday article which informed the talk
Flickr photoset

Interested in a PhD related to transliteracy, social media, or nature and cyberspace?

I will have space to supervise some new PhD students from Autumn 2009, and would like to hear from researchers interested in developing projects around topics such as:

• transliteracy
• nature and cyberspace
• psychogeography, especially in the digital
• social media for business and innovation
• other social media applications

More information here.

Is your wireless router turned on 24/7 ?

This weekend I stayed at a friend's house and was intrigued to notice that she turns her router on when she turns on her laptop, and turns it off again when she's done. It surprised me because it has never occurred to me to turn off my router, even when I go away. So I tweeted a brief enquiry to find out what other people do. I also emailed my provider, Plus Net, to ask for their advice on the matter. Here are some of the answers I received:

 

Songs of Imagination & Digitisation - first meeting

Songs of Imagination & Digitisation - first meeting
Originally uploaded by suethomas

Great first meeting at the Poetry Society Cafe today. We read excerpts from Blake's prose and poetry and discussed whether he could be counted as an 'amplified individual'  It was interesting to think about his relationship to work at a time when the Industrial Revolution was only just developing, cities were growing very rapidly, and the factory working day was a new concept. Today, I think, we may be heading back in the opposite direction, towards perhaps a kind of technologised, independent and comparatively wealthy peasant class. That aside, it was a great meeting and a wonderful opportunity to learn and share ideas. Many thanks to Chris Meade for setting this up and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it develops. Follow the project, and look out for William Blake's personalised netbook (courtesy of Bill Thompson)
T-shirt expertly modelled by Lisa Gee
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Songs of Imagination and Digitisation

Link: Songs of Imagination and Digitisation.
I've been invited to contribute to this fascinating if:book project about William Blake. Looking forward to meeting everyone this week.