U Of M Digt Cult Books imprint: 44 books
by Charles McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay....
Digital Tools in Urban Schools
Mediating a Remix of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
"Today there is massive interest in how digital tools and popular culture are transforming learning out of school and lots of dismay at how digitally lost our schools are. Jabari Mahiri works his usual magic and here shows us how to cross this divide in a solidly grounded and beautifully written...
by Jack Dougherty, Kristen Nawrotzki
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed...
Learning Legacies
Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners...
Interdisciplining Digital Humanities
Boundary Work in an Emerging Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining...
Seeing the Past with Computers
Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see—and seek to hear, touch, or smell—traces of the past. Place-based augmented reality applications are an increasingly common feature at heritage sites and museums, allowing historians to create immersive, multifaceted...
Ethical Programs
Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your “space” (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference, James J. Brown’s Ethical Programs examines and explores the rhetorical...
Digital Rubbish
A Natural History of Electronics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic...
The Media Welfare State
Nordic Media in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries—Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new...
Myst and Riven
The World of the D'ni
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“Myst and Riven is well-written, interesting, on-topic, insightful, and a real pleasure to read.”
—Edward Castronova, Indiana University
Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, Myst and its sequel Riven stand out as influential examples. Myst and Riven:...
Digital Rhetoric
Theory, Method, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
What is “digital rhetoric”? This book aims to answer that question by looking at a number of interrelated histories, as well as evaluating a wide range of methods and practices from fields in the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences to determine what might constitute the work...
by Nikki Usher
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Making News at The New York Times is the first in-depth portrait of the nation’s, if not the world's, premier newspaper in the digital age. It presents a lively chronicle of months spent in the newsroom observing daily conversations, meetings, and journalists at work. We see Page One meetings,...
Traces of the Old, Uses of the New
The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. In Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The...
Imagining the Global
Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that...