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It's good to see the Second Edition of this book in print . and I think it provides a very useful overview of contemporary work in lit...

I don't usually gloat over reviews, but if we live in an age of self-promotion maybe we are compelled (?) to put things out there. So ...

I often think that discussions of new media place their emphasis on either representation or technology but rarely both. Thinking about t...

At this year's LRA  conference I found myself repeatedly asking whether presenters felt that their video data was producing them, rath...

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...