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• Sociology of the Internet

• Extinction Internet: Our Inconvenient Truth Moment (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2022), by Geert Lovink (PDF with commentary at networkcultures.org)
• 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)
• Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Ralph Schroeder (HTML and PDF with commentart at UCL Press)
• Change: 19 Key Essays on How the Internet Is Changing Our Lives (Madrid: BBVA, c2013), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, David Hillel Gelernter, Juan Ignacio Vázquez, Michael A. Nielsen, Mikko Hypponen, Manuel Castells, Evgeny Morozov, Federico Casalegno, Neil Selwyn, Lucien Engelen, Zaryn Dentzel, Dan Schiller, Yochai Benkler, Thomas W. Malone, David Crystal, Paul DiMaggio, Peter Hirshberg, Patrik Wikström, and Edward Castronova (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.cmo)
• 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)
• Net.Wars (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Wendy Grossman (multiple formats at NYU)
• The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Betancourt (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• 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)
• The Class of the New (2006), by Richard Barbrook (PDF at imaginaryfutures.net)
• 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)
• Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television (Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, 2017), by Amanda D. Lotz (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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
• 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)
• Futuros Imaginários: Das Máquinas Pensantes à Aldeia Global (Portuguese translation of Imaginary Futures; c2009), by Richard Barbrook (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village (prepublication drafts, to 2006), by Richard Barbrook (PDF files with commentary at imaginaryfutures.net)
• 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 M. 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)
• 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 at Michigan)

• Social Media in Northern Chile: Posting the Extraordinary Ordinary (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Nell Haynes
  • PDF and HTML 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)
• Journal of Online Trust and Safety (2021-)

• 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 (c2003), by Christopher R. Hertel (illustrated HTML at ubiqx.org)
• 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)
• 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)
• Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy (c2002), by Ross Dawson (PDF files with commentary at livingnetworksbook.com)
• 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.