15 Free eBooks on New Media Studies & the Digital Humanities

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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