Books

Unsworth, L., Thomas, A. Chandler, P and O’Brien, A. (in preparation). Digital Animated Movie Authoring Pedagogy: New and traditional literacies in the middle years of schooling. (Publisher TBA)

Unsworth, L. and Thomas, A. (Eds.) (in preparation). English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and authoring digital multimedia in the classroom. Peter Lang: New York.

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

Thomas, A. (in preparation). Points of Difference: Humour, Pathos and Irony in Children’s Multimodal Texts. In: Djonov, E. and Zhao, S. (Eds.) Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Culture. Routledge.

Thomas, A. (in preparation). Shades of Grey: The Continua of Online Research Ethics. In: T. Lê & Q. Lê. Conducting research in a changing and challenging world. Nova Science Publishers.

Thomas, A. Chandler, P., Unsworth, L. and Phan, H. (in preparation). “I absolutely wanted to inform the audience that this was a romance”:  Gendered multimodal authoring practices and perceptions of children. In: Guzzetti, B. and Bean, T. (Eds.) Gender and Literacy. Routledge.

Thomas, A. (in preparation). Virtual Macbeth: Using virtual worlds in secondary English classrooms. In: Unsworth, L. and Thomas, A. (Eds.) English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and authoring digital multimedia in the classroom. New York: Peter Lang

Thomas, A. and Chinthammit, W. (in preparation). Augmented Reality in the English Classroom. (in preparation). In: Unsworth, L. and Thomas, A. (Eds.) English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and authoring digital multimedia in the classroom. New York: Peter Lang

Thomas, A., White, J. and Lippis, R. (in preparation). Digital Fiction: A practical approach to teaching new literacies. In: Unsworth, L. and Thomas, A. (Eds.) English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and authoring digital multimedia in the classroom. New York: Peter Lang

Thomas, D., Thomas A. & Fluck, A. (2011). Enhancing Pedagogy with mLearning. In: Le, T. & Le, Q. [Eds.] Technologies for Enhancing Pedagogy, Engagement and Empowerment in Education: Creating Learning-Friendly Environments. Pennsylvania, US: IGI Global.

Paltridge, B., Thomas A. & Liu, J. (2011). Genre, Performance and Sex and the City. In: Piazza, R., Rossi, F. & Bednarek, M. [Eds.] Telecinematic Discourse: An introduction to fictional constructed drama and television. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Thomas, A. & Tarfuno, N. (2010). Stop Motion Animation. For: Knobel, M. and Lankshear, C. DIY Media: Digital Literacies and Learning through Popular Cultural Production. 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). Blurring and Breaking through the Boundaries of Narrative, Literacy and Identity in Adolescent FanFiction. In: Knobel, M. and Lankshear, C. (Eds.), New Literacies Sampler. New York, Peter Lang.

Thomas, A. (2006). Fictional Blogging. In: Bruns, A. and Jacobs, J. (Eds.), Uses of Blogs. New York: Peter Lang.

Refereed Journal Articles

Thomas, A. (2011). Children’s Writing Goes 3D: A case study of one school’s journey into multimodal authoring. Learning, Media and Technology. EJ ISSN 1743-9884

Thomas, A. (2011). Developing a transformative digital literacies pedagogy. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy. 6 (1-2) pp. 89-101.

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: 126 142

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.

Thomas, A. (2001). The Cyber Child. disClosure – a journal of social theory Childhood, 10th anniversary issue, pp. 143 – 175, Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky, University of Kentucky Publishing Services.

Thomas, A. (2000). Textual Constructions of Children’s Online Identity. CyberPsychology and Behavior, Special issue: ‘Case Studies in Cyberspace’, Volume 3, Number 4, pp. 665-672. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., New York.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Gregory, B., Gregory, S., Wood, D., Masters, Y., Hillier, M., Stokes-Thompson, F., Bogdanovych, A., Butler, D., Hay, L., Jegathesan., J.J., Flintoff, K., Schutt, S., Linegar, D., Alderton, R., Cram, A., Stupans, I., McKeown Orwin, L., Meredith, G., McCormick, D., Collins, F., Grenfell, J., Zagami, J., Ellis, A., Jacka, L., Campbell, J., Larson, I., Fluck, A., Thomas, A., Farley, F., Muldoon, N., Abbas, A., Sinnappan, S., Neville, K., Burnett, I., Aitken, A., Simoff , S., Scutter, S., Wang, X., Souter, K., Ellis, D., Salomon, M.,Wadley, G., Jacobson, M., Newstead, A., Hayes, G., Grant, S., Yusupova, A. (2011). How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds? In G. Williams, N. Brown, & B. Cleland (Eds.), Changing Demands, Changing Directions. Proceedings ascilite Hobart 2011. Presented at the ascilite2011, Hobart. 2011 (pp. TBA). http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/hobart11/procs/bgregory.pdf

Gregory, S., Lee, M., Ellis, A., Gregory, B., Wood, D., Hillier, M., Campbell, M., Grenfell, J., Pace, S., Farley, H., Thomas, AA., Cram, A., Sinnappan, S., Smith, K.,  Hay, L., Kennedy-Clark, S., Warren, I., Grant, S., Craven, D., Dreher, H., Matthews, C., Murdoch, D and McKeown, L. (2010). Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through 3D virtual worlds, Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future, December 5 – 8 2010, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 399-415. ISBN 978-1-74272-016-6

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.

Thomas, A. (2005). Positioning the Reader: The affordances of digital fiction. For: Reading the Past, Writing the Future. Brisbane, Queensland Council for Adult Literacy Inc. pp.24-33

Thomas, A. (2005). Blog Fiction and the Narrative Identities of Adolescent Girls. For: Blogtalk Downunder Conference. Sydney, 2005.

Papers and Presentations

See list here for details.

Editorial Review Board Member

2011 –  : English in Australia

2007 – 2010: Australian Journal of Language and Literacy

2011: Editorial Advisory Board member for the Springer book series on Virtual Worlds