Presentation of Transliteracy: Crossing Divides at the DAW Symposium, Xi'an, China, July 2010. Includes Bobbi Newman's Transliteracy slides. http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW10/Symposium
Translated into Mandarin.
Transliteracy Sue Thomas Xi'an (English)Dr Sue Thomas
Presentation of Transliteracy: Crossing Divides at the DAW Symposium, Xi'an, China, July 2010. Includes Bobbi Newman's Transliteracy slides. http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW10/Symposium
Transliteracy Sue Thomas Xi'an (English)Dr Sue Thomas
Presentation of Transliteracy: Crossing Divides at the DAW Symposium, Xi'an, China, July 2010. Includes Bobbi Newman's Transliteracy slides. http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW10/Symposium
Technobiophilia: soothing our connected minds and easing our wired lives, Bi...Dr Sue Thomas
Published on 20 May 2015
Technobiophilia: soothing our connected minds and easing our wired lives
In her 2013 book Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace, Sue Thomas interrogates the prevalence online of nature-derived metaphors, and comes to a surprising conclusion. The root of this trend, she believes, lies in biophilia, defined by E.O. Wilson as ‘the innate attraction to life and lifelike processes’. Working from the strong thread of biophilia which runs through our online lives, she expands Wilson’s definition to the ‘innate attraction to life and lifelike processes *as they appear in technology*’, a phenomenon she calls ‘technobiophilia’. Attention to technobiophilia and its application to urban design offers a way to make our digital lives integrated, healthy, and mindful. In this talk she outlines the key elements of the concept and shows how, even in an intensely digital culture, the restorative qualities of biophilia can alleviate mental fatigue and enhance our capacity for directed attention, thus soothing our connected minds and easing our wired lives.
Sue's website: https://suethomasnet.wordpress.com
YouTube video of this talk: https://youtu.be/yOrt8zINrnE
A day off in the cyberpark – how the growing synergies between nature and tec...Dr Sue Thomas
A day off in the cyberpark – how the growing synergies between nature and technology will soon affect our workplaces and leisure time
Keynote presentation by Dr Sue Thomas, Visiting Fellow, The Media School, Bournemouth University www.suethomas.net
Seminar 11: ''Affective Digital Economy: Intimacy, Identity and Networked Realities''
ESRC Seminar Series: Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights
Friday November 29 2013, University of Leicester
This lecture uncovers a hidden literacy in the way we think about nature in cyberspace. Why are there so many nature metaphors – clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs – in the language of the internet? Why do we adorn our screens with exotic images of forests, waterfalls, animals and beaches? In her new book ‘Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace’, Sue Thomas interrogates the prevalence online of nature-derived metaphors and imagery and come to a surprising conclusion. The root of this trend, she believes, lies in biophilia, defined by biologist E.O. Wilson as ‘the innate attraction to life and lifelike processes’. In this lecture, which marks the US launch of the book, she explores the strong thread of biophilia which runs through our online lives, a phenomenon she calls ‘technobiophilia’, or, the ‘innate attraction to life and lifelike processes as they appear in technology’. The restorative qualities of biophilia can alleviate mental fatigue and enhance our capacity for directed attention, soothing our connected minds and easing our relationship with computers. More information at www.suethomas.net
This lecture was part of a series of Fall guest lectures exploring the intriguing new concept of metaliteracy developed by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson, and it was presented live in the new Metaliteracy MOOC. The MOOC is open to students at the University at Albany and Empire State College for credit as well as to all global participants as a free and open learning experience. http://metaliteracy.cdlprojects.com/index.html
Evaluating impact: transliteracy and creative business innovation via social ...Dr Sue Thomas
This article outlines the emergent theoretical framework which informed a series of initiatives developed at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, between 2005-11 with the aim of stimulating the use of social media for business innovation, and analyses their impact in relation to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise to be held in the UK in 2014 (in so far as it was understood in the first half of 2011). The new concept of transliteracy, developed at the Institute of Creative Technologies at DMU, was a key element in the theory informing the projects, some of which were also underpinned by research on the Amplified Individual undertaken at the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto. Although they differed in style and reach, all shared a focus on the use of social media by small to medium sized creative businesses and non-profit organisations in and around the city of Leicester, UK. In the light of the importance of assessing impact in today’s academic climate, Dr Souvik Mukherjee was appointed in 2011 to look at how that combination of research and practice might be used to demonstrate impact and make recommendations for future research. We understand that many other countries are already, or soon will be, conducting a similar audit of the ways in which higher education effects knowledge exchange and public engagement, so this article should also be of interest outside the United Kingdom.
Technobiophilia: How nature calms your wired life. At Cafe Scientifique, Bour...Dr Sue Thomas
Why do we adorn our screens with pictures of forests, waterfalls, animals and beaches? Why are there so many nature metaphors in the language of the internet? The answer lies in biophilia, the innate human attraction to life and life-like processes. Sue Thomas believes that nature can soothe our connected minds and offer unexpected benefits – an improved attention span, a rested mind, and enhanced creativity. So there’s no need to choose between technology and well-being – we can have both! This talk is about the best way to make our digital lives integrated, healthy, and mindful.
Cafe Scientifique Bournemouth, at Cafe Boscanova, Boscombe on 1st October 2013 http://cafescibournemouth.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/tuesday-1st-october-cafe-scientifique-exclusive-to-mark-our-1-year-anniversary/
www.suethomas.net
Sue Thomas 'A Journey of Integration' PhD Thesis 2004 [computers, connectedne...Dr Sue Thomas
'A Journey of Integration: Virtuality and Physicality in a Computer-Mediated Environment'
. PhD by Published Works, 2004. Sue Thomas
This thesis details the history of Sue Thomas’s writings on computer-mediated experience since 1988, from the research for and writing of her first novel Correspondence (1992), through a second novel Water (1994) and a number of collected and single works in print and new media, to the non-fiction book Hello World: travels in virtuality (2004). It argues that computers offer an opportunity to explore our sense of connectedness not just with each other, but also with the natural, the mechanical and the digital. However, the immense promise of digital life lies in its very resistance to definition, and the growing web of online social networks must be regarded as an ecological system living and evolving on its own terms. (Chapter 6 has been removed for revision)
Creating the World's First Wikipedia TownDr Sue Thomas
Talk by Roger Bamkin, Director of Wikimedia UK on Tue 16 Oct 2012 at the DMU Transdisciplinary Common Room http://transdisciplinarydmu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/augmented-reality-creating-worlds-first.html
[with audio] Technobiophilia: Sue Thomas, The Future of Cyberspace, Professor...Dr Sue Thomas
NB: YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THESE SLIDES TO HEAR THE SOUND
The act of entering cyberspace was, along with the entering of outer space, one of the most profound experiences of the twentieth century. In 1969, humans landed first ‘on’ the moon (July), and then ‘in’ cyberspace (September) with the connection of the first two nodes of the internet. Today the mountains of the Moon remain neglected and unexplored, but cyberspace has evolved into a deeply familiar habitat whose geography has been shaped by those who built and used it. This talk explores the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth, and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel 'Correspondence', short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality'. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on 'Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU Transdisciplinary Group, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
www.technobiophilia.com
Technobiophilia: Sue Thomas, The Future of Cyberspace, Professorial Lecture, ...Dr Sue Thomas
The act of entering cyberspace was, along with the entering of outer space, one of the most profound experiences of the twentieth century. In 1969, humans landed first ‘on’ the moon (July), and then ‘in’ cyberspace (September) with the connection of the first two nodes of the internet. Today the mountains of the Moon remain neglected and unexplored, but cyberspace has evolved into a deeply familiar habitat whose geography has been shaped by those who built and used it. This talk explores the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth, and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel 'Correspondence', short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality'. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on 'Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU Transdisciplinary Group, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
www.technobiophilia.com
Evaluating Impact: NLab, Amplified Leicester, and creative innovation via soc...Dr Sue Thomas
SEMINAR: Evaluating Impact: NLab, Amplified Leicester, and creative innovation via social media
Wednesday 8th June 2011, 4pm at the Institute of Creative Technologies De Montfort University, Leicester, UK .
Since 2005, DMU has initiated a series of projects which share a common focus of exploring social media as a means of stimulating creative innovation in business, non-profit, and community life in and around Leicester. They include NLab and CreativeCoffee Club (funded by HEIF, the Higher Education Innovation Fund) and Amplified Leicester (funded by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). Professor Sue Thomas has devised and directed these activities across the Faculty of Humanities and the Institute of Creative Technologies.
Emergence has been a dominant feature of all the projects and, despite being driven by different agendas, each has informed the shaping of the others. An important element has been the creation and evolution of spaces, both physical and intellectual, which support:
* the application of academic research to real-life problems
* the connection of cutting-edge research into social media innovation with local creative businesses
* the creation of a network linking De Montfort University with small businesses, non-profits, and local agencies
Dr Souvik Mukherjee has evaluated the impact of these projects both in relation to their importance for the Research Excellence Framework and with regard to indications of future developments building on current achievements. In the process, he has also gleaned valuable insights into the REF Impact agenda which will be of interest to colleagues in a wide range of disciplines.
Dr Mukherjee is a Research fellow in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism in the Faculty of Humanities. He is currently involved in analysing the impact of social media projects on communities, especially in relation to business innovation and transliteracy. Having completed his PhD on storytelling in New Media, especially focusing on videogame narratives, Souvik has published and presented papers on a range of related topics. Besides New Media, he also takes a keen interest in e-learning and has been involved in analysing online media and virtual learning network usage in higher education. After completing his project at DMU, Souvik intends to return home to India to develop New Media research networks there.
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Sue's website: https://suethomasnet.wordpress.com
YouTube video of this talk: https://youtu.be/yOrt8zINrnE
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This lecture uncovers a hidden literacy in the way we think about nature in cyberspace. Why are there so many nature metaphors – clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs – in the language of the internet? Why do we adorn our screens with exotic images of forests, waterfalls, animals and beaches? In her new book ‘Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace’, Sue Thomas interrogates the prevalence online of nature-derived metaphors and imagery and come to a surprising conclusion. The root of this trend, she believes, lies in biophilia, defined by biologist E.O. Wilson as ‘the innate attraction to life and lifelike processes’. In this lecture, which marks the US launch of the book, she explores the strong thread of biophilia which runs through our online lives, a phenomenon she calls ‘technobiophilia’, or, the ‘innate attraction to life and lifelike processes as they appear in technology’. The restorative qualities of biophilia can alleviate mental fatigue and enhance our capacity for directed attention, soothing our connected minds and easing our relationship with computers. More information at www.suethomas.net
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Evaluating impact: transliteracy and creative business innovation via social ...Dr Sue Thomas
This article outlines the emergent theoretical framework which informed a series of initiatives developed at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, between 2005-11 with the aim of stimulating the use of social media for business innovation, and analyses their impact in relation to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise to be held in the UK in 2014 (in so far as it was understood in the first half of 2011). The new concept of transliteracy, developed at the Institute of Creative Technologies at DMU, was a key element in the theory informing the projects, some of which were also underpinned by research on the Amplified Individual undertaken at the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto. Although they differed in style and reach, all shared a focus on the use of social media by small to medium sized creative businesses and non-profit organisations in and around the city of Leicester, UK. In the light of the importance of assessing impact in today’s academic climate, Dr Souvik Mukherjee was appointed in 2011 to look at how that combination of research and practice might be used to demonstrate impact and make recommendations for future research. We understand that many other countries are already, or soon will be, conducting a similar audit of the ways in which higher education effects knowledge exchange and public engagement, so this article should also be of interest outside the United Kingdom.
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Talk by Roger Bamkin, Director of Wikimedia UK on Tue 16 Oct 2012 at the DMU Transdisciplinary Common Room http://transdisciplinarydmu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/augmented-reality-creating-worlds-first.html
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NB: YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THESE SLIDES TO HEAR THE SOUND
The act of entering cyberspace was, along with the entering of outer space, one of the most profound experiences of the twentieth century. In 1969, humans landed first ‘on’ the moon (July), and then ‘in’ cyberspace (September) with the connection of the first two nodes of the internet. Today the mountains of the Moon remain neglected and unexplored, but cyberspace has evolved into a deeply familiar habitat whose geography has been shaped by those who built and used it. This talk explores the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth, and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel 'Correspondence', short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality'. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on 'Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU Transdisciplinary Group, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel 'Correspondence', short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality'. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on 'Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU Transdisciplinary Group, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Since 2005, DMU has initiated a series of projects which share a common focus of exploring social media as a means of stimulating creative innovation in business, non-profit, and community life in and around Leicester. They include NLab and CreativeCoffee Club (funded by HEIF, the Higher Education Innovation Fund) and Amplified Leicester (funded by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). Professor Sue Thomas has devised and directed these activities across the Faculty of Humanities and the Institute of Creative Technologies.
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* the application of academic research to real-life problems
* the connection of cutting-edge research into social media innovation with local creative businesses
* the creation of a network linking De Montfort University with small businesses, non-profits, and local agencies
Dr Souvik Mukherjee has evaluated the impact of these projects both in relation to their importance for the Research Excellence Framework and with regard to indications of future developments building on current achievements. In the process, he has also gleaned valuable insights into the REF Impact agenda which will be of interest to colleagues in a wide range of disciplines.
Dr Mukherjee is a Research fellow in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism in the Faculty of Humanities. He is currently involved in analysing the impact of social media projects on communities, especially in relation to business innovation and transliteracy. Having completed his PhD on storytelling in New Media, especially focusing on videogame narratives, Souvik has published and presented papers on a range of related topics. Besides New Media, he also takes a keen interest in e-learning and has been involved in analysing online media and virtual learning network usage in higher education. After completing his project at DMU, Souvik intends to return home to India to develop New Media research networks there.
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http://ampleic.ning.com/events/amplified-communities-of-faith
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65. We would love to
have a Chinese
blog author!我们
很期待中国的博客
作者!
Write for us!(写给我们)
Can you write about
transliteracy in China?
(你能在中国做一些有
关于多媒体读写能力的
事情吗?
Join the Transliteracy
Blogging Team!(加入
我们的多媒体读写能力
博客吧!