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Reading for pleasure and self-improvement has an enduring and emotive appeal, and through its close association with typographic print...

Good quality research data on reading for pleasure is always a useful complement to the rhetoric on the topic. So it's great to see th...

Over the last few years blogging has become a bit of an occasional pursuit for me, and I've been wondering why. The answer came to me ...

You might guess that a publication addressing the state of the art in pedagogical uses of technology would include MOOCs, learning anal...

It's getting quite common to hear about how technology can solve all our literacy issues in one fell swoop. But this story about usi...

In retrospect I think Julia Gillen and I managed to capture something of the essence of microblogging in studying how Twitter was used i...

The flurry of concern over data harvesting has taken up quite a few column inches lately. It seemed that no-one was particularly concerne...

The rather sudden decline in my posting frequency is probably largely the product of a very busy year that's included trips to the US,...

Any self-respecting cyborg has to be a fan of body hacking. Rather than some sort of grim ritual of zombie-like mutilation this sort of ha...

As a sort of postscript to yesterday's piece on the commodification of early learning and literacy, I wanted to underline that this...

Research Story from Chris Thomson on Vimeo . We all  have to juggle with competing demands and priorities, and it seems to get even wor...

In our paper, Points of View, Cathy and I use some virtual worlds data to problematise a whole range of issues in literacy studies. Starti...

When you're travelling it sometimes seems that the whole of humanity is also involved in this restless journeying, burdened by luggag...

I'm really enjoying the Fifth International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis with its focus on Digital Practices. Presenters have br...

Five years ago, convergence technology was the real buzzword, and with early smartphones we began to see this on the high street - the pho...

I've just been writing another paper about toddlers and touchscreens, and it returns to the same themes about gesture that I explored...

The BBC has quite a knack of digging out enthusiastic and slightly potty boffins to drive their distinctive brand of middlebrow edutainmen...

I like Thompson's idea of mediated publics. He argues that public was once defined in terms of people, places and events that shar...

Yes, I finally let go of my Flickr account last year, realizing that it no longer served any real purpose for me or, in fact, held my int...

Sometimes you just can't find what you're looking for even when you're using really sophisticated search engines. To put it an...