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As we wait to see the real effects of the latest swathe of educational reforms, reforms that appear to completely remove all local influence...

I was pleased to be asked to contribute to Kurylo and Dumova's volume Social Networking: Redefining communication in the digital age a...

A while back there was a spontaneous outcry about what was happening to our vegetables. Through some sort of consciousness-raising process...

It must be symptomatic of something that the most searching questions that one can ask can often be met with a dismissive cynicism if not ...

I'm back! Back from what friends fondly refer to as my gallivanting, which roughly translated means making the most of my time to expl...

I was flattered to be asked to present for the Global Conversations in Literacy series. The video is a screen capture of the talk, probabl...

I hope there will be a good audience for my talk on Sunday. It's called 'New Mobile Literacies' and here's a bit of a tas...

In a current writing project we've been exploring Bennet's notion of enchantment - eloquently developed in her book The Enchantmen...

Last week the Guardian newspaper carried a well-researched piece on the possible effects of tablets on children's reading. Stuart Dred...

Observational studies of children working on desktop computers sometimes drew our attention to how those particular material conditions es...

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...