digitalculturebooks http://www.digitalculture.org Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:17:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 Join the conversation: Pub Club to discuss Detroit and urban possibility http://www.digitalculture.org/2016/04/25/join-the-conversation-pub-club-to-discuss-detroit-and-urban-possibility/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2016/04/25/join-the-conversation-pub-club-to-discuss-detroit-and-urban-possibility/#respond Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:53:18 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2265


Free event
: Thursday, May 12, 3:30-5:00pm, Hatcher Gallery, open to all

The Michigan Library Publishing Club (Pub Club) will be hosting its second free, open event, featuring a conversation about The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit with author Andrew Herscher, on Thursday, May 12, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm, at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (first floor, Room 100) in Ann Arbor. 

Published by the University of Michigan Press as part of the digitalculturebooks imprint, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit can be read online for free and is also available to purchase. There is no reading requirement to participate in the Pub Club, but we hope everyone can check out the book’s introduction to follow along in the discussion.

A successful city is inclusive, diverse, and shaped by its residents,” says author Andrew Herscher. “In general, the more developed the real estate economy, the less inclusive and diverse the city is; this makes me interested in unreal estate as space where otherwise-excluded urban residents can claim a right to the city.”

Please join us May 12 for guaranteed good conversation, plus free coffee, treats, and collectible letterpress bookmarks, handmade by author Andrew Herscher and Michigan Publishing staff at Wolverine Press. All community members are encouraged to attend this free, open event. Add yourself to the Michigan Library Publishing Club group on Facebook and RSVP to the event for more details. We look forward to seeing you there!

#PubClub: Read, Learn, Engage

Michigan Publishing has implemented the exciting digital annotation tool Hypothes.is for readers to share their thoughts about our open access publications and engage with other readers online. We’ll discuss select annotations at the event from readers who comment with #pubclub—so dive in and start commenting!

About the book: The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination and practice of alternative urbanisms. The first sustained study of Detroit’s alternative urban cultures, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit initiates a new focus on Detroit as a site not only of urban crisis but also of urban possibility.

The Guide documents art and curatorial practices, community and guerilla gardens, urban farming and forestry, cultural platforms, living archives, evangelical missions, temporary public spaces, intentional communities, furtive monuments, outsider architecture, and other work made possible by the ready availability of urban space in Detroit. The Guide poses these spaces as “unreal estate”: urban territory that has slipped through the free-market economy and entered other regimes of value, other contexts of meaning, and other systems of use. The appropriation of this territory in Detroit, the Guide suggests, offers new perspectives on what a city is and can be, especially in a time of urban crisis.

About the author

Andrew Herscher is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He also co-founded the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency, an open access platform for research on urban crisis using Detroit as a focal point, and is currently a member of the We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective.

About the Pub Club

Open to the public, the Pub Club meets quarterly (our inaugural event in February was a great success!) to discuss open access books, journals, and digital projects published by Michigan Publishing and is committed to supporting innovative ways for readers and authors to engage with open access content and to providing a welcoming space where diverse conversations can thrive.

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Now Available: Science Fiction in Argentina http://www.digitalculture.org/2016/04/06/now-available-science-fiction-in-argentina/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2016/04/06/now-available-science-fiction-in-argentina/#respond Wed, 06 Apr 2016 13:46:38 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2255

We are excited to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse by Joanna Page.

This book examines an unprecedented range of science fiction texts—including literature, cinema, theater, and comics—produced in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. These works address themes common to the genre across the industrialized world, including techno-authoritarianism, new modes of posthuman subjectivity, and apocalyptic visions of environmental catastrophe. At the same time, Argentine science fiction is fully grounded in the social and political life of the nation.

The texts discussed here explore the impact of an uneven modernization, mass migration, dictatorships, crises in national identity, the rise and fall of the Left, the question of Argentina’s indigenous heritage, the impact of neoliberalism, and the most recent economic crisis of 2001. Argentine science fiction is also highly reflexive, debating within its pages the role of science fiction and fantasy in the society of its day, and the nature of the text in a world of advancing technology. This book makes important contributions to our understanding of science fiction as a genre, as well as to materialist theories of cultural texts. It will also interest students and scholars researching the culture, history, and politics of Argentina and Latin America.

Science Fiction in Argentina is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book may be purchased from the University of Michigan Press.

Joanna Page is a University Senior Lecturer in the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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Now Available: Traces of the Old, Uses of the New http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/12/14/now-available-traces-of-the-old-uses-of-the-new/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/12/14/now-available-traces-of-the-old-uses-of-the-new/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:28:36 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2237

We are happy to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies by Amy E. Earhart. This is the third book in our Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism Series.

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 Emergence of Digital Literary Studies, Amy Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific history of digital study as a necessary prelude to true progress in defining Digital Humanities as a shared set of interdisciplinary practices and interests.

Traces of the Old, Uses of the New focuses on twenty-five years of developments, including digital editions, digital archives, e-texts, text mining, and visualization, to situate emergent products and processes in relation to historical trends of disciplinary interest in literary study. By reexamining the roil of theoretical debates and applied practices from the last generation of work in juxtaposition with applied digital work of the same period, Earhart also seeks to expose limitations in need of alternative methods—methods that might begin to deliver on the early (but thus far unfulfilled) promise that digitizing texts allows literature scholars to ask and answer questions in new and compelling ways. In mapping the history of digital literary scholarship, Earhart also seeks to chart viable paths to its future, and in doing this work in one discipline, this book aims to inspire similar work in others.

Traces of the Old, Uses of the New is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book may be purchased from the University of Michigan Press.

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Now Available: Proofs of Genius http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/29/now-available-proofs-of-genius/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/29/now-available-proofs-of-genius/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:55:29 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2201

We are happy to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age by Amanda Gailey. This is the second book in our Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism Series.

Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author’s “selected works” or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arranged to imply an unmediated documentary completeness. By design, the collected edition obscures its own role in shaping the cultural reception of the author.

In Proofs of Genius, Amanda Gailey argues that decisions to re-edit major authorial corpora are acts of canon-formation in miniature that indicate more foundational shifts in the way a culture views its literature and itself. By combining a theoretically-informed approach with a broad historical view of collected editions from the late eighteenth century to the present (including the rise of digital editions), Gailey fills a gap in the textual scholarship of the editing history of major figures like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and of the American literary canon itself.

Proofs of Genius is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book may be purchased from the University of Michigan Press.

Amanda Gailey is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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Now Available: Digital Samaritans http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/29/now-available-digital-samaritans/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/29/now-available-digital-samaritans/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:52:25 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2193

We are proud to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities by Jim Ridolfo. This is the first book in our Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Series.

Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel. Based on interviews with members of the Samaritan community and archival research, Digital Samaritans explores what some Samaritans want from their diaspora of manuscripts, and how their rhetorical goals and objectives relate to the contemporary existential and rhetorical situation of the Samaritans as a living, breathing people.

How does the circulation of Samaritan manuscripts, especially in digital environments, relate to their rhetorical circumstances and future goals and objectives to communicate their unique cultural history and religious identity to their neighbors and the world? Digital Samaritans takes up these questions and more as it presents a case for collaboration and engaged scholarship situated at the intersection of rhetorical studies and the digital humanities.

Digital Samaritans is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book may be purchased from the University of Michigan Press.

Jim Ridolfo is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky.

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Now Available: Manifesto for the Humanities http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/29/now-available-manifesto-for-the-humanities/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/29/now-available-manifesto-for-the-humanities/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:49:29 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2187

We are happy to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times by Sidonie Smith.

After a remarkable career in higher education that has seen her serve as the Chair of the University of Michigan English Department, the Director of the Michigan Institute for the Humanities, and the President of the Modern Language Association, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the humanities in the 21st century. Her focus, as the subtitle indicates, is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. “The ‘Grand Challenge’ confronting academic humanists,” Smith avers, “is the imperative of sustaining passionate conviction about the value of studying the humanities in a climate of funding scarcity, corporatization, and neoliberal market economics. Responsibility for that sustainability—in the academy, in the nation, and around the globe—lies in part with humanities doctoral students, now or soon-to-be entering careers, who are driven by the desire to continue conversations, journeys, and discoveries, whether they take place in archives, in lines of poetry, in the logic of the assertion, or in the dirt of the dig. These doctoral students are preparing to play their role as agents of change for a sustainable future.”

Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanities, Smith advocates for a 21st century doctoral education responsive to the changing ecology of humanistic scholarship and teaching. She elaborates a more expansive conceptualization of coursework and dissertation, a more robust, engaged public humanities, and a more diverse, collaborative, and networked sociality.

Manifesto for the Humanities is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book will be available from the University of Michigan Press in January 2016.

Sidonie Smith is Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities at the University of Michigan and Director of the Institute for Humanities.

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“Ethical Programs” is the focus of a digital book club next week! http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/15/ethical-programs-is-the-focus-of-a-digital-book-club-next-week/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/10/15/ethical-programs-is-the-focus-of-a-digital-book-club-next-week/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:40:20 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2091

Ethical Programs coverIn honor of Open Access Week, October 18 through 25, the University of Texas at Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL) will lead a collaborative annotation of James Brown’s new book Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software using Hypothes.is. Hypothes.is is a free and open source software that allows for annotation, sentence-level critique, and note-taking on Web documents. Guided by DWRL alumnus Dr. Jeremy Dean, Director of Education at Hypothes.is, the annotation event will open up a conversation about software, rhetoric, and networked life.
 
Brown’s Ethical Programs is part of Digital Culture Books, an imprint of the University of Michigan Press. It explores the rhetorical potential and problems of a new era of hosts and guests and asks how both human and computational machines develop “ethical programs” for engaging with those that arrive on our virtual doorsteps. This makes it an ideal text to annotate using Hypothes.is, a platform which invites people from around the world to collaborate and discuss online texts.

As with all Digital Culture books, the University of Michigan Press has made the full text of the book available for free online. The Web version of Ethical Programs will be presented with the Hypothes.is annotation software installed, and students in Professor Casey Boyle’s “Rhetoric and Digital Humanities” class at UT-Austin will help lead the annotation of Brown’s book. Scholars and students from any discipline or institution are invited to read and discuss the book, using Hypothes.is to contribute to a collaborative annotation of the text. Interested participants can simply sign up for a free Hypothes.is account to join the in-line discussion of the text. Tag your annotations with “digitalculturebooks” and follow the conversation here. The book is also available in print format, and during Open Access Week the University of Michigan Press is offering a 30% discount on books (discount code UMHYPEP15).

This week-long event is co-sponsored by the DWRL as well as the Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center. The collaboration between Hypothes.is and Michigan Publishing’s Digital Culture Books is part of a generous grant from the Mellon foundation to explore the possibilities of annotation to enhance scholarly communication.

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Now Available: Ethical Programs http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/09/30/now-available-ethical-programs/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/09/30/now-available-ethical-programs/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:56:07 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2080

We are happy to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software by James J. Brown, Jr. This is the ninth book in our Digital Humanities Series.

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 potential and problems of an hospitality ethos suited to a new era of hosts and guests. Brown reads a range of computational strategies and actors including the general principles underwriting the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which determines how packets of information can travel through the internet, to the Obama election campaign’s use of the power of protocols to reach voters, harvest their data, incentivize and, ultimately, shape their participation in the campaign. In demonstrating the kind of rhetorical spaces networked software establishes and the access it permits, prevents, and molds, Brown makes a major contribution to the emergent discourse of software studies as a major component of efforts in broad fields including media studies, rhetorical studies, and cultural studies.

Ethical Programs is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book may be purchased from the University of Michigan Press.

James J. Brown, Jr., is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also teaches in the Digital Studies program. His teaching and research focus on rhetoric, writing, new media, and software studies.

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Now Available: Tempest http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/09/01/now-available-tempest/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/09/01/now-available-tempest/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:52:38 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=2064

We are happy to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Tempest: Geometries of Play edited by Judd E. Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister. This is the fourth book in our Landmark Video Games Series.

In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyze Tempest’s landmark qualities, exploring the game’s aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. Specifically, they describe the game in detail, unpacking its latent and as well manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes; consider the game generically, that is, in terms of the general styles and logics it initiated, reinscribed, and expanded upon; delve into its design and production history to reveal the creative and industrial processes that shaped the game’s development, release, and reception; and, finally, they analyze it as part of a franchise as well as a singular artifact.

Tempest is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book may be purchased from the University of Michigan Press.

Judd Ethan Ruggill is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University and co-directs the Learning Games Initiative.

Ken McAllister is Professor of English and Director of the Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English Graduate, College of Humanities Faculty Fellow for Research and Instructional Computing at The University of Arizona.

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Now Available: Digital Rhetoric http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/06/08/now-available-digital-rhetoric/ http://www.digitalculture.org/2015/06/08/now-available-digital-rhetoric/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:20:21 +0000 http://www.digitalculture.org/?p=1983

We are happy to announce a new title from digitalculturebooks, Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice by Douglas Eyman. This is the seventh book in our Digital Humanities Series.

The goal of Digital Rhetoric is to gather, synthesize, and critique current work that stakes a claim to “digital rhetoric” as field or methodological approach. Digital Rhetoric argues for a view of digital rhetoric as an emergent, interdisciplinary field of practice that has developed in parallel forms in a wide range of disciplines, including rhetoric and writing, composition, technical communication, digital game studies, literacy studies, media (and new media) studies, and human-computer interaction, among others. After tracing developments in these fields and providing a working definition of “digital rhetoric” and its relationship to digital literacy, new media, and digital humanities approaches, Digital Rhetoric examines theories of digital rhetoric, research methods for digital rhetoric scholarship, and a series of case studies of digital rhetoric practice.

Digital Rhetoric is freely available to read online. Print copies of the book may be purchased from the University of Michigan Press.

Douglas Eyman is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University and Senior Editor of the open access scholarly journal Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy.

 

 

 

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