Becky Parry is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She is author of Children, Film and Literacy (Palgrave, 2013).Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published widely in the field of literacy and technology and is on the editorial boards for Literacy and Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy in Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is widely published and known internationally for his work on literacy and digital technology.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsForeword, Donna Alvermann Acknowledgements1. Literacy, Media, Technology, Guy Merchant, Cathy Burnett and Becky Parry. Pause2. The Picture Postcard at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Instagram, Snapchat or Selfies of an Earlier Age?, Julia Gillen 3. Television as a New Medium, Margaret Mackey 4. From the Wild Frontier of Davy Crockett to the Wintery Fiords of Frozen: Changes in Media Consumption, Play and Literacy from the 1950s to the 2010s, Jackie Marsh Record5. Constricting or Constructing Everyday Lives?: Literacies and Inequality, Susan Jones 6. Family Stories, Texts, and Meaning: A Study of Artifacts during a Digital Storytelling Workshop, Tisha Lewis Ellison 7. Mapping Place, Affect, and Futures in an Adolescent’s New Media Making: Schizoanalytic Cartographies, Christian Ehret Play8. ‘Finger Flowment’ and Moving Image Language: Learning Filmmaking with Tablet Devices, John Potter and Theo Bryer 9. Digital Personal Stories: Bringing Together Generations and Enriching Communities, Natalia Kucirkova Rewind10. Time Travels in Literacy and Pedagogy: From Script to Screen, Becky Parry, Lucy Taylor and Nadia Haerizadeh-Yazdi 11. Children’s Writing in the 21st Century: Mastery, Crafting and Control, Clare Dowdall 12. How Does Boy 17 Read a Game?, Julian McDougall Fast Forward13. Postdigital Literacies: Materiality, Mobility and the Aesthetics of Recruitment, Thomas Apperley, Darshana Jayemanne and Bjorn Nansen 14. Assembling Virtual Play in the Classroom, Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant Standby15. Past, Present, Future, Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant and Becky Parry Index

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