Worth noting: digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press dedicated to publishing books on new media studies and digital humanities. Committed to openness, the imprint typically releases its titles under a Creative Commons (CC) license that lets you read the works online for free. You can also make non-commercial use of the texts without getting permission (or paying fees) so long as you give proper attribution. Below, we have listed the texts (and the series in which they appear). Click the links below, then look for the “Read for free online” link beneath each author’s name. And you’ll be good to go. We have more free ebooks in two collections: 600 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices and 170 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection.
Digital Humanities
- Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology by Kevin Kee
- Writing History in the Digital Age by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty
- Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities Edited by Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt
- Teaching History in the Digital Age by T. Mills Kelly
Landmark Video Games
- DOOM: SCARYDARKFAST by Dan Pinchbeck
- Myst and Riven: The World of the D’ni by Mark J. P. Wolf
- Silent Hill: The Terror Engine by Bernard Perron
The New Media World
- When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use by John Carey and Martin C. J. Elton
- Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation by
Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Sean O’Siochru with Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy - Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan, Editors
- The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age Edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui
Technologies of the Imagination
- Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning by Jabari Mahiri
- Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life by David Buckingham, Maria Pini and Rebekah Willett
- My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft by Bonnie A. Nardi
- Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity by Emily Chivers Yochim
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