Her research focuses on changes in literacy, pedagogical and cultural practices associated with the use of new media in local and global contexts. Her books that explore these changes include Page to Screen (1998), Teachers and Technoliteracy, co-authored with Colin Lankshear (2000) and Silicon Literacies (2002). Intrinsic to her work is the understanding that there are increasingly urgent social and economic imperatives to investigate the complex ways in which new technologies allow an expanded network of communication and intellectual exchange, but a network that is not equally available to all. She is working on a project investigating the digital literacy practices of Australian young people in home, school and community that will be contrasted with parallel studies in Brazil, Greece and South Africa. She is also writing a book, The Literacy Wars, to be published in 2008.