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In writing about virtual worlds and video games recently, I found myself reaching deep into 'the canon'  to illustrate the endurin...

I've not been posting for a while because I've been on a long break in Nepal and Tibet - but somehow or other a complete break isn...

Social networking sites and the ways in which they are folded into the socio-technical arrangements that frame the everyday lives of an ev...

When asked recently about the impending death of the book it occurred to me that, just like the terms 'text' and 'literacy...

Settling into a new location involves many small adaptions; adjustments that we make in order to stabilise the disturbance caused by the...

Over the last couple of weeks I've been involved in a lot of discussion about how teaching and learning get conceptualised in the on...

Last week at the University of Greenwich I talked about new technology and the commodification of literacy. I used digital apps and playth...

The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education. In ...

Stacks of cardboard boxes are scattered around Barnsborough. Children's avatars might just discover them, and if they do, by hoverin...

When Cathy and I worked on the data that later became Points of View , we experimented with deconstructing the notion of 'the event...

Norris's work on modal aggregates is a powerful way of conceptualising the iPad data that I've recently been writing about. Alt...

The idea of connecting schools and school children has been around for some time. Serving worthwhile goals of promoting cross-cultural und...

With World Book Day approaching, it is anticipated that children's literature and its authors will get plenty of coverage - but wha...

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...