Senior Lecturer in Literacy
| Contact Campus | Newnham Campus |
| Building | Building A |
| Room Reference | A225d |
| Telephone | +61 3 6324 3719 |
| Fax | +61 3 6324 3058 |
| Angela.Thomas@utas.edu.au |
ACHIEVEMENTS
Angela is currently working on an ARC Linkage grant with Professor Len Unsworth from the University of New England, and the Australian Childrens Television Foundation. The project is titled Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle years: multimedia grammatical design and multimedia authoring pedagogy".
RESEARCH KEYWORDS
New media literacies, digital fiction, multimodal semiotics, youth online, identity, gender online, childrens literature, virtual worlds
RESEARCH HIGHER DEGREE SUPERVISION
Blogs as genre and performance, mLearning, virtual worlds in education, multimodal authoring
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Thomas, A. (2007). Youth Online: Identity and Literacy in the Digital Age. New York, Peter Lang.
Unsworth, L., Thomas, A., Simpson, A, and Asha, J. (2005). Children's Literature and computer-based teaching, Open University Press, UK.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Partidge, B., Thomas, A. and Liu, Jianxin. (forthcoming). Genre, Performance and Sex and the City. In: Piazza, R. Rossi, F. and Bednarek, M. (Eds.), Telecinematic Discourse: An Introduction to the Fictional Language of Cinema and Television. John Benjamins Press.
Thomas, A. (2010). Stop-Motion Animation. In: Knobel, M. and Lankshear, C. (Eds.), DIY Media. New York: Peter Lang.
Thomas, A. (2008). Machinima: Composing 3D Multimedia Narratives. In: Unsworth, L. [Ed]. New Literacies and the English Curriculum: Multimodal Perspectives. London, Continuum.
Thomas, A. (2008). Culture, Community and Citizenship in Cyberspace. In: Lankshear, C., Knobel, M., Leu, D. and Cairo, J. (Eds.), The Handbook of New Literacies Research. Erlbaum.
Thomas, A. (2007). Fan Fiction, Role-playing and Narrative Practices Online. In: Knobel, M. and Lankshear, C. (Eds.), New Literacies Sampler. New York: Peter Lang.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Thomas, A. (2006). Fan Fiction Online: Engagement, Critical Response and Affective Play through Writing. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. Vol. 29, No. 3. pp: 226-239.
Thomas, A. (2006). "MSN was the next big thing after beanie babies": Children's virtual experiences as an interface to their everyday lives. For: E-Learning, Vol. 3, No. 2. pp: 126-143.
Thomas, A. (2005). Children Online: Learning in a virtual community of practice. For: E-Learning, Vol 2, No. 1. pp: 27-38.
Thomas, A. (2004). Digital Literacies of the Cybergirl For: E-Learning, Vol 1, No. 3. pp: 358-382.
Unsworth, L., Thomas, A., and Bush, R. (2004). The Role of images and image-text relations in group 'basic skills tests' of literacy for children in the primary school years. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.46-65.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Thomas, A. (2009). Inside the mind of Macbeth: Understanding and interpreting literary worlds in a virtual environment. 45th UKLA International Conference. Greenwich, UK. July, 2009.
Thomas, A. (2007). Dont hate me because my avatar is beautiful: Discourses of Femininity and the Body in Second Life. Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference. Sydney, December, 2007.
Thomas, A. (2007). The Transforming Potential of New Technologies in Middle Years Literacy. For: Middle Years Literacy Project Symposium. Melbourne, November 2007.
Thomas, A. (2007). Pleasure, Play, Participation and Promise: Socio-emotional dimensions of digital culture which are transforming the shape of new media literacies. For: New Media Consortium Summer Conference Proceedings, NMC Spring Conference. Indianapolis. June, 2007.
Thomas, A. and Flintoff, K. (2007). Creative Pedagogy. For: NMC Creativity in Second Life Symposium. Second Life, August 2007.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Australian Literacy Education Association Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association