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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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• Language and languages -- Political aspects
• Mass media -- Political aspects
• Social media -- Political aspects
• Telecommunication -- Political aspects

• Communication and politics
• Politics and communication

• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
• 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)
• First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c2005), by Maurine Hoffman Beasley (HTML and Epub formats with commentary at fulcrum.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)

• Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review (full serial archives)

• 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)

• #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)

• 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)

• Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), ed. by Roberta D'Alessandro, Michael T. Putnam, and Silvia Terenghi (HTML with commentary at OUP)

• 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)

• Agency in the Peripheries of Language Revitalisation: Examining European Practices on the Ground (Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual Matters, 2024), ed. by Mary S. Linn and Alejandro Dayán-Fernández
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at zenodo.org

• Living Languages (full serial archives)

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

• The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation: The History and Politics of Al-Qur'an dan Terjemahnya (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Fadhli Lukman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• 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)

• The Media Archive (world edition, translator's cut; 1998), by Adilkno (HTML at networkcultures.org)
• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
• 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)

• Chinese Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the 1970s (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #36; Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1979), by Allen S. Whiting (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Gaza on Screen (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2023), ed. by Nadia G. Yaqub (PDF at OAPEN)

• Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2023), by Lorenzo Fabbri (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation (New York and London: Routledge, 2025), ed. by Nelson Costa Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer
  • multiple formats with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• 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)
• Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Ralph Schroeder (HTML and PDF with commentart at UCL Press)
• The Age of Perplexity: Rethinking the World We Knew (Madrid: BBVA, c2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Jannis Kallinikos, Robin Mansell, Jan-Werner Müller, José Luis Pardo, Diana Marie Owen, Evgeny Morozov, Simon Springer, Marysia Zalewski, John Andrews, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Ian Storey, Miguel Angel Centeno, Andrés Lajous, Douglas R. Nelson, Zia Qureshi, Adam Saunders, Andrew Gamble, Richard J. White, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Adriana Conconi, and Mariana Viollaz (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• 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)

• Citizenship Excess: Latinas/os, Media, and the Nation (New York and London: New York University Press, c2013), by Hector Amaya (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2023), ed. by Richard Rogers (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• 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)
• Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (London: Pluto Press, c2012), by Paolo Gerbaudo (PDF with commentary at oapen.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)

• Tweets from the Campaign Trail: Researching Candidates' Use of Twitter During the European Parliamentary Elections (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2016), ed. by Alex Frame, Arnaud Mercier, Gilles Brachotte, and Caja Thimm (multiple formats with commentary at peterlang.com)

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