Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy in Education at Sheffield Hallam University.Julia Gillen is Senior Lecturer in Digital Literacies at the Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University.Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK.Julia Davies is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is a director of the Centre for the Study of New Literacies at Sheffield, and directs the EdD in Literacy and Language and the MA in New Literacies.