Dr Lisa Dethridge

Dr Lisa Dethridge

GEElab Australia - Researcher, Writer and New Media Artist

Dr Lisa Dethridge researches Virtual Worlds, social networking, cross-media and participatory media. She writes for film, television, theatre, radio, print and the internet in Australia and the United States. She has worked for major and independent studios and networks including Fox, Warner, Working Title, MTV, CBS, NBC, CNN, Granada, Dempa Japan, SBS, the Australian Film Commission, 3RRR radio; ABC Australia, TV New Zealand and Chapel-off-Chapel Theatre.

Lisa has exhibited art in Melbourne and New York and written for several magazines including a regular column for Vogue Australia. She has researched communications for the United Nations, NASA, Telstra and Telecom Australia and taught at New York University, the American Film Institute, UCLA, the Australian Film, TV and Radio School, RMIT and University of Melbourne. She has a PhD, in Media Ecology from New York University and is the author of Writing Your Screenplay, published by Allen and Unwin.