Welcome to digitalculturebooks

the online home of a new imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library.The imprint will feature titles on the social and cultural impact of new media and on related humanities topics.

digitalculturebooks is a work in progress, as we develop new publishing strategies to meet the needs of authors and readers. Please stay tuned in the coming months as we get ready to launch a number of our Spring titles as well as a new website with additional features and functionalities. In the meantime, we are pleased to announce the free, online publication of Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China, edited by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan.

Forthcoming titles from digitalculturebooks include:

• Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism, edited by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus
• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability, Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Sean O'Siochru
• The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age, edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui
• This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, by Jim Rossignol
• The Best of Technology Writing 2008, edited by Clive Thompson