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If anyone was in any doubt that written language is changing, or that children are active members of writing communities they need look no...

In a current piece of writing we've been asking why an expansive view of new literacies is hard to realise in practice. We note that s...

In the wake of an unexpected election result, three of our political leaders have resigned, sacrificing themselves in order to shoulder wh...

Discourse and Digital Practice s - the outcome of a lively symposium in Hong Kong, organised by Rodney Jones and his colleagues, is out n...

Scissors. A whole book could be written about them. And maybe it has - but what layers of interest! Perhaps a starting point could be the ...

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...