Communication -- Political aspects

Here are entered works on the interrelations between communication and political institutions. Works on the use of communication in the political process are entered under Communication in politics.

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• Communication -- Political aspects -- United States
• Language and languages -- Political aspects
• Mass media -- Political aspects
• Social media -- Political aspects

• Communication and politics
• Politics and communication

• Communication and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma (1997), by Christopher R. Kedzie (HTML at rand.org)
• Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)

• American Government and Politics in the Information Age (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by David L. Paletz, Diana Marie Owen, and Timothy E. Cook (PDF at saylor.org)
• What Role Does and What Role Should the Media Play in Choosing Our Candidates For National Office? Excerpts from the 1993 Harry Singer Foundation Essay Contest, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wellington Publications)

• De Belgische Taalwetten (in Dutch; Gent: A. Siffer, 1892), by Alphonse Napoléon Prayon-van Zuylen van Nyevelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda, ed. by Diane August and Kenji Hakuta (page images at NAP)

• Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda, ed. by Diane August and Kenji Hakuta (page images at NAP)

• Global Evolution: A Chronological Annotated Bibliography of International Students in U.S. Academic Libraries (2007), by Kaetrena D. Davis (PDF at ALA)

• Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Michael Silverstein (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Michael Silverstein (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• The IDEA Guide to the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates (New York et al: International Debate Education Association, 2012), contrib. by Bruce Lee Zellers (PDF with commentary at idebate.org)

• Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also the Two Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln in Ohio in 1859 (Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1897), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (national edition, 8 volumes; New York: Lamb Pub. Co., n.d.), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, and Stephen A. Douglas
  • Volume 1 (1832-1843): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (1843-1858): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (1858-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (1862-1863): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (1863-1865): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Life of Lincoln): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (biographical eighth volume by Noah Brooks omitted), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley (Gutenberg text)

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcommunications.org)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold Adams Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics (c2012), ed. by David Taras and Christopher Robb Waddell (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Media, Diplomacy, and Terrorism in the Middle East: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, July 30, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics (c2012), ed. by David Taras and Christopher Robb Waddell (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Empire and Communications (1950), by Harold Adams Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• Minerva's Owl (1947), by Harold Adams Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold Adams Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF with commentary at freedomhouse.org)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• International Journal of Communication (2007-) (full serial archives)

• The Psychology of Cyberspace, by John Suler (HTML at rider.edu)

• Business Communication for Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2010), by Scott McLean (PDF at saylor.org)
• Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers (2007), by Peter Chen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• How to Study and Write Good Letters, Applications, Compositions, Telegrams, Agreements, Better Sentences, Important Letters, Speaking in Public, and Teach Yourself Good English (Nigeria, ca.1964), by Wilfred Onwuka (PDF with commentary at Kansas)
• Say it with Pictures, by Harry Alder (illustrated HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Information and Communications Technology for Development: A Sourcebook for Parliamentarians (2004), ed. by B. K. Gairola, Mahesh Chandra, Pooja Mall, James George Chacko, Phet Sayo, and Helena Loh (PDF at apdip.net)

• Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (HTML at idrc.ca)

• Tiny Troublemaker, by Joe Crews (HTML at crcbermuda.com)

• Essays of an Information Scientist (15 volumes), by Eugene Garfield (PDF files here at Penn)
• Measurement of Science: Study of the Development of Science as an Information Process (edited machine translation from Russian; 1971), by V. V. Nalimov and Z. M. Mul'chenko, ed. by Robert D. Hill (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• Metalibrarianship: A Model for Intellectual Foundations of Library Science, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Nitecki Trilogy, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Immersion Into Noise (c2011), by Joseph Nechvatal (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)
• In the Beginning Was Information: A Scientist Explains the Incredible Design in Nature (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2005), by Werner Gitt (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• Information, Randomness and Incompleteness (second edition, 1990), by Gregory J. Chaitin (Postscript at Maine)
• Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003), by David J. C. MacKay (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)
• The Limits of Mathematics, by Gregory J. Chaitin (illustrated HTML at Maine)
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude E. Shannon (PDF and Postscript at dspguide.com)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)

• Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Mary E. John (HTML at UC Press)

• How to Answer Hard Interview Questions, by Charlie Gibbs (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• The Causes and Cure of Armaments and War (London: P. S. King and Co., 1914), by Albert William Alderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Franz Nikolaus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethnologue (electronic edition; based on the 14th edition), ed. by Barbara F. Grimes (searchable HTML at ethnologue.com)
• In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• An Introduction to the Study of Language (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at Google; US access only)
• Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921), by Edward Sapir (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts from the Underground Grammarian, by Richard Mitchell (HTML at sourcetext.com)
• Less Than Words Can Say, by Richard Mitchell
  • HTML at sourcetext.com
  • multiple formats in Australia
• Marxism and Problems of Linguistics, by Joseph Stalin (HTML at marxists.org)
• Original Letters and Papers of the Late Viscount Strangford Upon Philological and Kindred Subjects (London: Trubner, 1878), by Percy Ellen Frederick William Symthe Strangford, ed. by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Psycho-Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by George Kingsley Zipf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Edward B. Tylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.