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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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• Social media -- Political aspects
• Telecommunication -- Political aspects

• Communication and politics
• Politics and communication

• 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)

• Australian Politics in a Digital Age (c2013), by Peter John Chen (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• 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)
• Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts (PDF (mouse over "open access" link to reveal) with commentary at OUP)
• What Role Does and What Role Should the Media Play in Choosing Our Candidates For National Office? Student Excerpts from the 1993-1994 Harry Singer Foundation National Essay Contest, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)

• Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate, on Russian Active Measures, Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election (redacted declassified version, 5 volumes; 2019-2020) (all volumes: PDF files at senate.gov)
• Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts (PDF (mouse over "open access" link to reveal) with commentary at OUP)

• Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (updated and expanded edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007), by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Eva Landau (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Selma K. Sonntag and Mark Turin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• De Belgische Taalwetten (in Dutch; Gent: A. Siffer, 1892), by Alphonse Napoléon Prayon-van Zuylen van Nyevelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)

• Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1956 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Pritipuspa Mishra (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)

• Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda (1997), ed. by Diane August and Kenji Hakuta (page images at NAP)

• Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda (1997), 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 Davis Kendrick (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)
• Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (c2008), by Elenore Long (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Proverbs are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Wolfgang Mieder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• 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 Wayback Machine)

• 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)
• Stephen A. Douglas: Annual Address Delivered Before the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois, January 31, 1908 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers, 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 and illustrated HTML)

• The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by James Francis Darsey (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), by Tony Scott (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by William V. Spanos (PDF at Ohio State)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Serk-Bae Suh (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Serk-Bae Suh (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. 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)

• Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US (Bielefield: Transcript, c2019), ed. by Maik Fielitz and Nick Thurston (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy (London: University of Westminster Press, c2017), by Trevor Garrison Smith (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

• Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), ed. by Roberto Simanowski (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Jerry White (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Jerry White (PDF at University of Calgary)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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

• Capital, State, Empire: The New American Way of Digital Warfare (London: University of Westminster Press, 2017), by Scott Timcke (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Crossing the Line: Georgia's Violent Dispersal of Protestors and Raid on Imedi Television (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Jane Buchanan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

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)
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.