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• Online social networks
• Social aspects

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Journal of Online Trust and Safety (2021-)

• 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)

• 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)

• Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (New York: New York University Press, c2020), by André L. Brock
  • multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), ed. by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Ross Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism, by Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Heritage, Tourism, and Race: The Other Side of Leisure (New York and London: Routledge, c2020), by Antoinette T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Aging in the Social Space (Białystok-Kraków: Association of Social Gerontologists, 2015), by Łukasz Tomczyk and Andrzej Klimczuk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at SSOAR

• Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry (c1984), ed. by J. K. Jackson (HTML at UNU)

• The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Melanie McMahon (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, and Rachel Mason Dentinger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Karl Steel (PDF at Ohio State)

• Conversations With Tim Ingold: Anthropology, Education and Life (Edinburgh: Scottish Universities Press, c2024), by Tim Ingold, Robert Gibb, Philip Tonner, and Diego Maria Malara (PDF and Epub with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage (Anthropology of Media v11; New York and Oxford: Berghahn, c2021), by Katja Müller (PDF and EPub with commentary at Berghahn Books)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Amazing Journey of Reason: From DNA to Artificial Intelligence (Cham: Springer, c2020), by Mario Alemi (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)
• Realizing the Promise and Minimizing the Perils of AI for Science and the Scientific Community (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2025), ed. by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Bill Kearney, and Anne-Marie Mazza (HTML with commentary at manifoldapp.org)

• The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF at esa.int)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.