Ilana SnyderIlana Snyder is the Associate Dean Research and a Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. Her research has investigated the changes to literacy practices associated with the use of digital technologies. Her books that explore these hanges include Hypertext (1996), Page to Screen (1997) and Silicon Literacies (2002). Published in 2008, The Literacy Wars discusses the politics of the volatile media debates about literacy in Australia. Her most recent book (2010) is Closing the Gap in Education?, coedited with John Nieuwenhuysen, in which leading scholars and public figures from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand consider issues around Indigenous education. Read More Read Less