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Reading through the proofs of our new book Undoing the Digita l is an interesting experience that throws up a whole range of reactions and f...

If my name still counts for something it is in the way it associates with my passport number and my license plate. Increasingly I get the se...

In a recent piece for the London Review of Books writer James Meek satirises British political opinion as a division between those living...

A lifetime of reading has done little to improve my word recognition skills. I often misread signs and notices, repeatedly confusing push ...

It is hard to think of what literacy studies would be like without the concept of multimodality - and for this we have Gunther Kress to th...

'Traces left by our ancestors from 25,000 years ago' the softly spoken guide explains. 'Wow' whispers the American woman i...

Out of all the fascinating studies that we've published in the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy there's one that holds a speci...

It was unseasonably warm with record-breaking temperatures over the Easter period. 'That David Attenborough knows something' the m...

In a democracy of things every object exists in relation to others. What's more all classes of objects have equal status although some c...

A good documentary should dig deep into a topic of interest or concern and judged against this the film ' H is for Harry ' is good...

1969 – it was the year of the Stonewall Riots, of Woodstock, and Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. It was also the year in which The Ver...

I've spent a considerable amount of time recently  (with Cathy Burnett) trying to develop a credible account of meaning making from a so...

I'd been meaning to ask for sometime, and then I did. 'Alexa, are you female?' There's a polite pause followed by the repl...

A friend gives me a small pebble that he found at a beauty spot on the edge of town, browny grey in colour and worn smooth by time. It fit...

Good ideas, the ones that provide solutions to problems you didn't think you had, are things to celebrate before they become taken for...

Towards the end of his story, Simon Herzog, the protagonist of Binet's postmodern detective satire ' The Seventh Function of Langu...

Denim used to be a signifier of rebelliousness, and that may partly explain why I’ve been wearing blue jeans for the last 50 years. Not th...

I've often wondered why the seating in airports is so uncomfortable. Is it to prepare you for the inevitable discomfort of the journey a...

I like radio, I grew up with it on. In those days it was mainly the Home Service and the Third Programme, and it was the hey day of Britis...

I used to be a teacher, a primary school teacher, but unlike some of my colleagues I don't really think of myself in that way any long...