Digital Culture Books

A great resource with books fully online with many New Media related titles currently available.

digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work about the social, cultural, and political impact of new media. We welcome projects that have the ability to build bridges between more and less technologically-aware audiences by offering rich and relevant new frames for thinking about information and communication technology.

digitalculturebooks is an experimental publishing strategy with a strong research component.

with recent titles such as The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors and Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities:

"In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a videogame.

It was the best thing that ever happened to me."

So begins this story of personal redemption through the unlikely medium of electronic games. Quake, World of Warcraft, Eve Online and other online games not only offered author Jim Rossignol an excellent escape from the tedium of office life. They also provided him with a diverse global community and a job---as a games journalist.