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I'm recently back from a week in Calgary on a fascinating project which I may write more about later.  The preparatory task was to write...

I'm just putting the finishing touches to a co-authored book on literacy and digital media for Sage with Cathy Burnett . It's been a...

Trying to think differently about literacy, emergence and potentiality (amongst other things) has led to some experimentation with the con...

It seems hard to believe when you're in the full beauty of the English summer that the environment is any sort of danger at all. It...

In a rather lengthy email earlier this week, our publisher announced that The Case of the iPad is now out. What exactly out means is, of co...

Iraqi security forces, and Peshmerga fighters together with Sunni and Shia militia are about to take possession of Mosul, liberating it fr...

As pundits and politicians reflect on surprising gains in Labour support in the recent election, many sense the emergence of a new style o...

Sometimes its the smallest of comments that can stop you in your tracks. Like yesterday - the doctoral students were talking about reading i...

This new volume will be published in the summer and is the result of a collaboration with Alyson Simpson and Maureen Walsh . It's been...

Recent interest in affect has come from a number of different directions. Sedgwick ’s appropriation of Tomkins’ psychological perspective ...

Whether it's about water rights, fishing rights, territorial boundaries or navigation there's no doubting the fact that rivers oft...

Last year in a keynote at the Sheffield CSL conference I used a short vignette from what now seems to be becoming a series of sketches of d...

A map can be very useful when you're lost - if you've got the right one, and if you can make sense of it. And pouring over maps ca...

Now there are no forests to speak of there is nowhere to be completely lost. All we have are our own places of abandonment and enchantment...

Tsering Dolma is not at home. Although the house and outbuildings are abandoned, provisions are stored away for the coming winter. So alth...

The idea of celebrating the materialisation of a book in print form might at first glance appear to be rather anachronistic. After all, in...

The cost of the latest initiative - to make all schools into academies - is likely to be £1.3 billion . That's a significant outla...

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...