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The need for teachers to engage with digital literacies at all stages of education has been articulated in numerous policy documents and d...

Last week I bought a goat, a spider and a stork. They cost 99p for the job lot. I know that because of the helpful receipt I got from iTun...

I'm posting a picture of make-up. In fact I'm posting two pictures of make-up - and that might just be a first for this blog.  It...

In the current book project New Literacies around the Globe , we've had to confront some of the myths surrounding the idea of 'the...

Reputation and ranking through comment and consumer review are a ubiquitous feature of new media. Reviewing involves online performances...

Political speeches, presentations, ritual invocations, announcements, radio broadcast and so on are closed one-to-many forms of communic...

I found this year's  LRA conference  provided a rich fare. Some familiar things were being re-stated, some key work felt yet further...

The act of writing has held my interest for a long time. It's partly because of its openness: the fact that possibility exists. There ...

Visiting Dallas 50 years after the Kennedy assassination could be a significant experience. After all, the shooting was a defining moment ...

Like many cities that prospered in late Victorian times, the centre of Nottingham still has those imposing multi-storey buildings or chamb...

Massumi makes a useful contribution to the problem with affect when he says:' There seems to be a growing feeling within media, liter...

 The relationship between academic and everyday life is a fascinating area, best typified I guess by blurred boundaries. Yesterday, for ex...

At the moment I'm writing about textual toys and the commodification of early literacy. I've noted before how a wide range of gam...

It has been argued that the aesthetic is a distinctive ‘way of knowing’ that integrates the cognitive and the affective. In school systems...

New technology means different things in different places as we can see in the variety of ways in which hardware and software are taken up...

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...