Författare: Cathy Burnett

Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. He specialises in research into digital literacy and the inter-relations between children and young people, and new technologies of communication. He is widely published in international journals and is a founding editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. The ground-breaking Web 2.0 for Schools was co-authored with Julia Davies, and he has since co-edited a number of collections including Virtual Literacies (2013), New Literacies around the Globe (2014),   Literacy, media, technology: past, present, future  (2017) and The Case  of the i Pad (2017). He is active in literacy education and professional work, including writing curriculum materials and professional publications.