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.