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

• Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2014), ed. by Jack Wei Chen and David Schaberg (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• The Chinese Media: More Autonomous and Diverse, Within Limits (1997), by Todd Hazelbarth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at cia.gov
• Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (2008), ed. by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan (HTML at Michigan)
• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China (c2012), by Ying Jiang (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)

• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• China's iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2014), ed. by Matthew D. Johnson, Keith B. Wagner, Kiki Tianqi Yu, and Luke Vulpiani (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1644-1912 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Jean Mailey (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press of Hawaii, c2010), by Zhong Xueping (PDF with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Social Media in Industrial China (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Xinyuan Wang
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Tom McDonald
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• Report on Project in Understanding New Media: Prepared and Published Pursuant to a Contract With the Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare (typescript; 1960), by National Association of Educational Broadcasters and Marshall McLuhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1987), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Empire and Communications (1950), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Minerva's Owl (1947), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)

• Australia in the Information Age (ACSJC occasional paper #14; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1992), by Christina Spurgeon and Paul Chadwick (PDF in Australia)

• Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Francisco Yus (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

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

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

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

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

• The Psychology of Cyberspace, by John R. Suler (illustrated HTML with commentary at truecenterpublishing.com)

• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Reading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, and Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, ca. 2022), ed. by Atilla Hallsby (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• 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 John 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)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• 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)

• Internationalizing "International Communication" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), ed. by Jinquan Li (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Content Analysis: A Handbook With Applications for the Study of International Crisis (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963), by Robert C. North, Ole R. Holsti, M. George Zaninovich, and Dina A. Zinnes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Straight Language for the Deaf: A System of Instruction for Deaf Children (9th printing; Washington: Volta Bureau, 1962), by Edith Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• 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 (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay (New York et al.: Elsevier, c1976), by Ralph L. Rosnow and Gary Alan Fine (PDF with commentary at Temple)
• Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), by Clare Birchall (PDF with commentary at a oapen.org)
• Tiny Troublemaker, by Joe Crews (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• 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)
• Data Science at the Command Line (free online edition; originally published 2014), by Jeroen Janssens (illustrated HTML at datascienceatthecommandline.com)
• 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)
• Essays of an Information Scientist (15 volumes), by Eugene Garfield (PDF files here at Penn)

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