Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : children of the digital age / Jackie Marsh -- Changing childhood cultures -- New textual landscapes, information and early literacy / Victoria Carrington -- Ritual, performance and identity construction : young children's engagement with popular cultural and media texts / Jackie Marsh -- Verónica : an asset model of becoming literate / Muriel Robinson and Bernardo Turnbull -- Bilingual children's uses of popular culture in text-making / Charmian Kenner -- Children and technologies -- Watching Teletubbies : television and its very young audience / Susan Roberts and Susan Howard -- The CD-ROM game : a toddler engaged in computer-based dramatic play / Cynthia R. Smith -- Narrative spaces and multiple identities : children's textual explorations of console games in home settings / Kate Pahl -- 'Pronto, chi parla? (hello, who is it?') : telephones as artefacts and communication media in children's discourses -- Julia Gillen, Beatrice Accorti Gamannossi and Catherine Ann Cameron -- Transformative pedagogies -- Popular culture : views of parents and educators / Leonie Arthur -- Barbie meets Bob the builder at the workstation : the word on screen/E-mergent literacies in the early years / Guy Merchant -- Resistance, power-tricky, and colorless energy : what engagement with everyday popular culture texts can teach us about learning, and literacy / Vivian Vasquez -- Behind the scenes : making movies in early years classrooms / Helen Nixon and Barbara Comber.

This text closely examines the ways in which popular culture, media and digital technologies impact upon the lives and literacy practices of young children.