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• Journal of Online Trust and Safety (2021-)

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• The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building Technologies for Communities (second edition, 2014), by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)
• Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (open access edition; Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2013), by Ulises Ali Mejias (PDF files at JSTOR)
• Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective (London: UCL Press, c2017), by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)
• Facets of Facebook: Use and Users (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Kathrin Knautz and Katsiaryna S. Baran
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• It's Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2014), by danah boyd (PDF with commentary at danah.org)
• Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013), ed. by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
• The Art of Community (second edition; c2012), by Jono Bacon (PDF at artofcommunityonline.org)
• The Art of Community (first edition; c2009), by Jono Bacon (PDF with commentary at artofcommunityonline.org)
• Dungeons and Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), by Brad King and John Borland (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains (New York et al.: Seven Stories Press, c2022), by Vitalik Buterin, ed. by Nathan Schneider (PDF with commentary at nathanschneider.info)
• How the World Changed Social Media (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliana Spyer, S. Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities: Benefits and Challenges for Learning and Assessment (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by H. Cecilia Suhr (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Rhetorical Code Studies: Discovering Arguments in and around Code (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019), by Kevin Brock (JSTOR ebook)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph M. Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning (New York: NYU Press, 2018), by Mizuko Ito, Katie Salen, Amanda Wortman, Rachel Cody Pfister, Matthew H. Rafalow, and Crystle Martin (JSTOR ebook)

• The Social Corps: The U.S.M.C. Social Media Principles (2011), by United States Marine Corps (PDF with commentary at dodlive.mil)
• United States Army Social Media Handbook (version 2, August 2011), by United States Army (page images at slideshare.net)

• Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation, and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2025), ed. by Bhaskar Chakravorti and Joel P. Trachtman (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge)

• Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act to Require Convicted Sex Offenders to Register Online Identifiers, and for Other Purposes (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Tijana Milosevic, contrib. by Sonia M. Livingstone (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Rethinking Social Media and Extremism (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2022), ed. by Shirley Leitch and Paul A. Pickering (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)
• Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life (Oakland: University of California Press, c2024), by Nathan Schneider, illust. by Darija Medić (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)
• Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), ed. by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker (PDF and HTML at Cambridge Core)
• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2017), by Zeynep Tufekci (PDF (at bottom of page) with commentary at twitterandteargas.org)

• Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019), by Kris Fallon (JSTOR ebook)

• Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution (New Brunswick, NJ, et al: Rutgers University Press, c2013), by Niki Akhavan
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2019), ed. by Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2007), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Andy Havens, Janet Hawk, and Lillie Jenkins (page images at OCLC)

• Making the Internet safe for kids : the role of ISP's and social networking sites : hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 27 and June 28, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016), ed. by Ramon Lobato and James Meese (multiple formats at networkcultures.org)
• The YouTube Reader (Stockholm: National Library of Sweden, 2009), ed. by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (PDF in Sweden)
• Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube (University Press of Colorado, 2019), by Patricia G. Lange (JSTOR ebook)

• Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (New York: NYU Press, 2020), by Jr. Brock (JSTOR ebook)

• Cyberbullying and other online safety issues for children : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 1966 and H.R. 3630, September 30, 2009. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by Terrorism United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protecting youths in an online world : hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, July 15, 2010. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of children's privacy : new technologies and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, April 29, 2010 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Online privacy, social networking, and crime victimization : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, July 28, 2010 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by Terrorism United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)
• Australasian Journal of Information Systems (1993-) (partial serial archives)
• MediaTor (2001-) (partial serial archives)
• kommunikation@gesellschaft (in German; 2020-) (partial serial archives)
• Nordic Journal of Media Studies (2019-) (partial serial archives)
• Styles of Communication (in French and English; 2009-) (partial serial archives)
• Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Social Analysis (2011-) (partial serial archives)
• Studies in Communication, Media (in English and German; 2011-) (partial serial archives)
• Marketing of Scientific and Research Organizations (in English and Polish; 2013-) (partial serial archives)
• Dígitos (in French, Catalan, English and Spanish; 2015-) (partial serial archives)
• e-Journal of New Media (in English and Turkish; 2017-) (partial serial archives)
• International Journal of Data and Network Science (2017-) (partial serial archives)
• Yeni Medya (in English and Turkish; 2016-) (partial serial archives)
• Journalism and Media (2020-) (partial serial archives)
• Technology, Mind, and Behavior (2020-) (partial serial archives)
• Sakarya İletişim (in Turkish and English; 2021-) (partial serial archives)
• مطالعات مدیریت کسب و کار هوشمند (in Persian; 2012-) (partial serial archives)
• Language, Technology, and Social Media (2023-) (partial serial archives)

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