ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I explore methodological and analytical approaches that might be used when undertaking research on young children's literacy practices in online virtual worlds. This work is key to building an understanding of how literacy is changing in the digital age. Children's use of virtual worlds is a growing area of interest for researchers and this chapter, therefore, intends to raise a number of questions about how the literacy research community might develop further the methodological tools employed to study the phenomenon. First, however, I will attempt to address the question: ‘Why is this area of research of interest to literacy researchers?’
