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• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)

• Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (c2008), by Elenore Long (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by Bronwyn T. Williams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

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

• The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (2014), by Doug Belshaw (PDF at dougbelshaw.com)
• The Design, Development, and Evaluation of Literacy Education: Application and Practice (LEAP), by Elizabeth C. Stephens (HTML at archive.org)
• An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)

• Reading in the Mobile Era: A Study of Mobile Reading in Developing Countries (Paris: UNESCO, 2014), by Mark West and Han Ei Chew (PDF with commentary at unesco.org)

• Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), by Iris Parush (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Francis Cody (multiple formats at Cornell)

• Family Literacy: Directions in Research and Implications for Practice; Summary of Papers of a National Symposium (Washington: GPO, 1996), ed. by L. Ann Benjamin and Jerome Lord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Family Literacy: Directions in Research and Implications for Practice; Summary of Papers of a National Symposium (Washington: GPO, 1996), ed. by L. Ann Benjamin and Jerome Lord (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Francis Cody (multiple formats at Cornell)

• Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)

• Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading (Washington: Allance for Excellent Education, c2010), by Steve Graham and Michael Hebert (PDF with commentary at carengie.org)

• Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (2010), by Common Core State Standards Initiative (HTML and PDF at corestandards.org)

• Reading in the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy and Biliteracy (originally printed 1978, reprinted 1984), by Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman, and Barbara Flores (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Rhetorical Dimensions of Cyberspace (c1996), ed. by Beth Williams Baldwin and Tim Flood (frame-dependent HTML at Colorado State)
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)

• A New Literacies Dictionary: Primer for the Twenty-First Century Learner (c2011), by Adam Mackie (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Research-Based Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction (2002), by John Kruidenier
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  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Nadia Nurhussein (PDF at Ohio State)

• Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (c2014), by Jon Dron and Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Democracy and Education, by John Dewey (Gutenberg text)

• The Social Benefits of Education (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), ed. by Jere Richard Behrman and Nevzer Stacey (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Journal of Social Pedagogy (2012-) (full serial archives)

• International Journal of Social Pedagogy (2012-) (full serial archives)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)

• Minding the Time, 1492-1992: Jesuit Education and Issues in American Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1992), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• Universities and the Future of America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Derek Curtis Bok (page images at HathiTrust)
• Higher Education and the New Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008), by George Keller (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning (c2011), by Jabari Mahiri (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), ed. by Patrick Blessinger and T. J. Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded paperback edition, c2000), ed. by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking (illustrated HTML and page images at NAP)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media (10th anniversary edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Mizuko Itō, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Mizuko Itō, Sonja Baumer, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Living and Learning With New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2009), by Mizuko Itō, Heather A. Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C. J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson, contrib. by Sonja Baumer, Rachel Cody, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, Dan Perkel, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Game Research Methods: An Overview (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2015), ed. by Petri Lankoski and Staffan Bjork (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Analog Game Studies (full serial archives)

• Video Games and the Global South (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), ed. by Phillip Penix-Tadsen (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2017), by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, and Brendesha M. Tynes (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Missions for Thoughtful Gamers (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Andrew Cutting (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)
• Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games (c2010), by David Myers (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (2008), by Jim Rossignol (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Katie Salen Tekinbaş (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by Barry Atkins (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• The Transformational Framework: A Process Tool for the Development of Transformational Games (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2018), by Sabrina Culyba (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), by Bonnie A. Nardi (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)

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