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Even in the face of a family bereavement old media insists on re-cycling what they think we want to read . Obituaries of my brother have not...

I've just been reading about active lurking - what a great concept! I must say it sits up there with Ron Carter's 'purposefully ...

I suppose there will come a point at which the 'new' of new literacies and the 'new' of New Literacy Studies will no longer ...

When Second Life works well, you're not really so aware that you're 'on the computer'. The machine itself becomes transparen...

'Oh, machines!' cursed the woman at the pizza checkout. The machine, in this case the card-reader, is the object that comes into foc...

Today was the virtual worlds symposium at BERA (Manchester University). It was good to be presenting alongside Andrew, Julia and Peter, and ...

Well, I’ve just finished revising the Sci-Fi materials for Scholastic and by far the most eye-opening thing has been re-jigging the activiti...

I've been busy writing curriculum materials on science fiction. One of the themes is about alien beings, so I was rather put out to catc...

Our self-narratives are stitched together from half-remembered fragments. I’m learning this through sharing memories of childhood with my br...

My father started working life as a teacher in a Nottinghamshire mining village at the time of the Depression. He used to talk a lot about t...

I don’t know why but I seem to be writing curriculum materials again (Code MD is a theme). So I thought I’d look for some official support f...

If you’re anything like me, you just think of Palatino as a font on a drop-down menu, but actually Palatino (Giovani Battista Palatino) was ...

The practices of music production and consumption have always fascinated me. In writing about literacy, DJ-ing and remixing have become popu...

Reading today’s Guardian you might be forgiven for thinking that the nation is obsessed with Twitter. The front page reports the Ofcom story...

Although I always look forward to the latest edition of Reading Research Quarterly , I rarely read all the articles. One thing the journal e...

I’m back, but slowly, slowly. First Second Life, then the emails, next a bit of Twitter and now the blog! The video is from my daughter’s bl...

Just to explain that not posting for a week isn’t the result of Twitteration, but just the domination of life circumstances. I’m also off on...

Just finished the next draft of a paper on virtual worlds. It's strange how the writing process moves you to previously unarticulated po...

I’ve been wanting to return to the matter of defining digital literacy for some time now, but never quite seem to get the opportunity to wri...

Wethink - the Facebook tentacles are everywhere. Already enormously popular, the social newtorking site is aggressive and ambitious. Last we...