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• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Canada
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- China
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Gaza Strip
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Italy
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Middle East
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
• Digital media -- Political aspects
• Motion pictures -- Political aspects

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play (text-only version; c2008), by Drew Davidson
  • PDF with commentary at CMU
  • PDF with commentary at Figshare
• Designing Media (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Bill Moggridge
  • multimedia with commentary at designing-media.com
  • PDF and audio files with commentary at MIT Press

• The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Arab Media Systems (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Carola Richter and Claudia Kozman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Australia in the Information Age (ACSJC occasional paper #14; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1992), by Christina Spurgeon and Paul Chadwick (PDF in Australia)

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)

• The Chinese Media: More Autonomous and Diverse, Within Limits (1997), by Todd Hazelbarth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archvie.org
  • PDF with commentary at cia.gov
• Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (2008), ed. by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan (HTML at Michigan)
• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), ed. by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Media Law Handbook (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2013), by Jane E. Kirtley (PDF files at america.gov)

• Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Walter Armbrust (HTML at UC Press)

• To Tell You the Truth: The Ethical Journalism Initiative (Brussels: International Federation of Journalists, c2008), by Aidan White (PDF at ethicaljournalisminitiative.org)

• Jonesboro: Were the Media Fair?, by Freedom Forum (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• The Journal of e-Media Studies (2008-) (full serial archives)
• NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), ed. by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin, contrib. by Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Kevin Kolkmeyer, J. Aaron Sanders, John Charles Duffy, Juliette Wells, and Karen D. Austin
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• From Media Hype to Twitter Storm: News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises, and Public Opinion (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by P. Vasterman (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), ed. by W. Russell Neuman (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future, by Jim Hartz and Rick Chappell (PDF at Freedom Forum)

• Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), ed. by W. Russell Neuman (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Lev Manovich (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)

• Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ed. by Michelle Ferrier and Elizabeth Mays (multiple formats with commentary at rebus.community)

• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at free-culture.cc)
• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Terrorism and Other Public Health Emergencies: A Reference Guide for Media (2005), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files with commentary at phe.gov)

• The U.S.S.R.'s AIDS Disinformation Campaign (1987), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

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