Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. Identity in Multimodal Communicative Practices -- Chapter 1. Global, Local/Public, Private: Young Children's Engagement in Digital Literacy Practices in the Home -- Chapter 2. Ned and Kevin: An Online Discussion that Challenges the 'Not-Yet Adult' Cultural Model -- Chapter 3. Escaping to the Borderlands: An Exploration of the Internet as a Cultural Space for Teenaged Wiccan Girls -- Chapter 4. Weblog Worlds and Constructions of Effective and Powerful Writing: Cross with Care, and Only Where Signs Permit -- Part 2. Multimodal Literacy Practices in Local and Global Spaces -- Chapter 5. Critical Literacy Across Continents -- Chapter 6. An Eye on the Text and an Eye on the Future: Multimodal Literacy in Three Johannesburg Families -- Chapter 7. Crossing the Margins: Literacy, Semiotics and the Recontextualisation of Meanings -- Part 3. Crossings in Literacy Practices -- Chapter 8. From Boardroom to Classroom: Tracing a Globalised Discourse on Thinking Through Internet Texts and Teaching Practice -- Chapter 9. Corporate Crossings: Tracing Textual Crossings -- Part 4. Multimodal Communicative Practices in Pedagogical Settings -- Chapter 10. So, What About Multimodal Numeracies? -- Chapter 11. Transformative Pedagogy: Teachers Creating a Literacy of Fusion -- Afterword -- Biographies -- Index