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• Sociology of the Internet

• The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age (London: A/E/T Press, c2018), by Rufus Pollock (PDF and Epub with commentary at openrevolution.net)
• The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online (New York: Data and Society Research Institute, 2018), by Whitney Phillips (PDF with commentary at datasociety.net)
• The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (Creative Commons-licensed PDF, c2008), by David Bollier (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Lori Kendall (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• 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)
• The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It (interactive electronic edition, 2008), by Jonathan Zittrain (HTML with commentary at Yale University Press)
• Internet Governance: Asia-Pacific Perspectives (2005), ed. by Daniel Butt (PDF at apdip.net)
• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993), by Howard Rheingold (HTML at rheingold.com)
• 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 with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• 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)
• eGirls, eCitizens (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015), ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie M. Steeves (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (Situated Technologies pamphlet #7; New York: Architecture League of New York, 2010), by Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu (PDF with commentary at archleague.org)
• The YouTube Reader (Stockholm: National Library of Sweden, 2009), ed. by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (PDF in Sweden)
• Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Anna Everett (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by David Buckingham (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Net.wars, by Wendy Grossman (HTML at NYU)
• The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst (c1995), by Stephen L. Talbott (HTML with commentary at netfuture.com)

• Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring (prepublication edition, c2013), by Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain (PDF with commentary at philhoward,org)

• Social Media in Northern Chile: Posting the Extraordinary Ordinary (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Nell Haynes
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

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

• Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data (Al Jazeera America, c2014), by Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld (multiple formats at aljazeera.com)

• The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico (1998), by David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller, and Melissa Fuller (PDF files at rand.org)

• Wired (full serial archives)

• We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People (2004), by Dan Gillmor (PDF files with commentary at oreilly.com)

• Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy (2018), by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London and New York: Verso, c2014), by E. Gabriella Coleman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Hector Postigo (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

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

• The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It (interactive electronic edition, 2008), by Jonathan Zittrain (HTML with commentary at Yale University Press)
• The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 (2003), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• E-Mutualism? Or the Tragedy of the Dot.Commons? (2000), by Bill Thompson (HTML at medium.com)
• Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh (third edition, 1995), by Adam C. Engst (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Internet Starter Kit for Windows (second edition, 1995), by Adam C. Engst (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Your Internet Consultant: The FAQs of Life Online (1994), by Kevin Savetz (HTML at savetz.com)
• Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue (c1993), by Carl Malamud (PDF and Epub with commentary at public.resource.org)
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet (1987), by Ed Krol (Gutenberg text)
• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)
• Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System (2003), by Christopher R. Hertel (zipped PDF at phptr.com)
• Spreading the Word on the Internet: 16 Answers to 4 Questions (2003), ed. by Christiane Hardy and Christian Möller (HTML at osce.org)
• Project Looking Forward: Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World (1998), by I. Trotter Hardy (PDF at LOC; 1.3 MB)
• MBONE: Multicasting Tomorrow's Internet (1996), by Kevin Savetz, Neil Randall, and Yves Lepage (HTML at savetz.com)
• Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Christopher Jon Delogu (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Netiquette (online edition, revised 1997), by Virginia Shea (HTML at albion.com)
• Internet Publishing with Acrobat (c1996), by Gordon Kent (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (unclassified version, slightly redacted; Fort Meade, MD: Center for Digital Content, National Security Agency, 2007), by Robyn Winder, contrib. by Charlie Speight (PDF at nsa.gov)
• Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy (c2002), by Ross Dawson (PDF files with commentary at livingnetworksbook.com)
• EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet (various editions from the 1990s), by Adam Gaffin (texts with commentary at eff.org)
• The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking (2nd edition), by Tracy L. LaQuey (HTML at obs-us.com)
• Zen and the Art of the Internet, by Brendan Kehoe (1st. ed., HTML at Indiana)
• Hate and the Internet (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• The Strategist and the Web: A Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• The Strategist and the Web Revisited: An Updated Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.