Introduction: popular culture and literacy in a networked world. -- The world on your screen: new media, remix, and the politics of cross-cultural contact. -- Constructing "Local context" in Beirut: students' literacy practices outside of class. -- Uncovering the multimodal literacy practices in reading manga and the implications for pedagogy. -- Adolescent literacy practices in online social spaces. -- The :Popular" Turkish academy. -- Digital worlds and shifting borders: popular culture, perception, and pedagogy. -- The participatory meme chronotope: fixity of space/rapture of time. -- Faceless facebook: female Qatari users choosing wisely. -- Russell T Davies, "Nine hysterical women," and the death of Ianto Jones. -- Leapfrogging in the global periphery: popular literacy practices of Nepalese youth online. -- Queering the text: online literacy practices, identities, and popular culture. -- Creating a fandom via youtube: Verbotene liebe and fansubbing. -- Virtual places in the physical world: geographies of literacy and (National) identity.

1. Popular culture and globalization
2. Online social networks
3. Media literacy
4. Literacy -- Social aspects