Introduction

Part 1: The language of cyberspace

1. Cyberlanguage: What it is and what it does
Donna Gibbs

2. Re(de)fining dictionaries: From paper to pixel
Scott Fitzgerald

3. Leading an active (text) life: How language constructs life in the chat room 
Juliet Mar

Part 2: The new literacies

4. Screen reading: The challenges of the new literacy
Jennifer Thurstun

5. Negotiating the web: Language, critical literacies and learning
Ross J. Todd

6. Connexions       
Anne Cranny-Francis

7. Literacy and technology: Bridging the divide
Mark Warschauer

Part 3: Gaming and socialising

8. Generating cyberculture/s: The case of Star Wars Galaxies
Kurt D.Squire & Constance A. Steinkuehler

9. Interactivity and pedagogy in ‘edu-tainment’ software
David Buckingham & Margaret Scanlon

10. A jump-start in learning? Young children’s use of CD-ROM technology
Donna Gibbs & Susan Roberts

11. Brand names, nicknames and numbers: Reconstructing layers of identity for mobile phones in Hong Kong
Vicki Yung

Part 4: Culture and communities in cyberspace

12. Cyberself: Identity, language and stylisation on the internet
Annette Wong

13. Cyberlines
Kerri-Lee Krause

Notes on Contributors

Index