The Author: Michele Knobel, Ph.D., is Lecturer in the School of Language and Literacy Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Her research interests lie chiefly in the area of young people's language and literacy practices, and in the field of electronic technologies. She has been published in a range of national and international journals, and has a number of book chapters - cowritten with Colin Lankshear - in Changing Literacies, Counternarratives, and Constructing Critical Literacies.