Do you like dogs or writing? Identity performance in childen’s digital message exchange

Over a number of years we have been investigating ways in which e-communication can contribute to children’s writing development and how new technology re-frames our understandings of writing in the classroom (Merchant, 2003; Burnett et al, 2004; Burnett et al, 2005; Merchant, 2005). Here we analyse the digital writing of pupils from two linked primary school classes (Year 3–5) in the North of England. Part of the project involved the pupils in...