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• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Afghanistan
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Canada
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- China
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Gaza Strip
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Islamic countries
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Italy
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Middle East
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- Northern Ireland
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- South Africa
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
• Digital media -- Political aspects
• Hispanic Americans and mass media -- Political aspects
• Motion pictures -- Political aspects
• Radio broadcasting -- 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)
• The potential for congressional use of emergent telecommunications: an exploratory assessment. (Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, 1974), by Frederick B. Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Challenges to values based military intervention (U.S. Institute of Peace, 1995), by Les Aspin, Ted Koppel, and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Media as global diplomat (United States Institute of Peace, 2009), by Sheldon Himelfarb, Tara Sonenshine, Eric Martin, Tamara Gould, and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
• External cultural and information programs of selected non-Communist countries in 1976 (USIA, 1977), by United States Information Agency. Office of Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Media and conflict : Afghanistan as a relative success story (United States Institute of Peace, 2008), by Ylber Bajraktari, Christina Parajon, and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• The news media and peace processes : the Middle East and northern Ireland (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2001), by Gadi Wolfsfeld and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)

• Public diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia : is the message getting through? : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 16, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• The news media and peace processes : the Middle East and northern Ireland (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2001), by Gadi Wolfsfeld and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broadcasting Board of Governors and Alhurra television : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 10, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1985), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East (page images at HathiTrust)

• Media restrictions in South Africa hearings before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, March 15 and 16, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O., 1989), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Media restrictions in South Africa : hearings before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, March 15 and 16, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (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)
• 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. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East (page images at HathiTrust)
• Combating terrorism : the role of the American media : hearing before the Select Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, September 15, 2004. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• New directions in mass communications policy : implications for citizen education and participation (Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, [Education Division], Office of Education, 1978), by Larry Rothstein and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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)

• American public diplomacy and Islam : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, February 27, 2003. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

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
• Mass media and world affairs (World Peace Foundation, 1959), by Alfred O. Hero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mass communication and quality in medical care (Bethesda, Md. : United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health ; Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977., 1977), by Carter L. Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mass communications and popular conceptions of education; a cross-cultural study. (Institute of Communications Research, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Illinois, 1964), by George Gerbner and University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Institute of Communications Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series, Inc., 1980) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Role and control of international communications and information report to the Subcommittee on International Operations of the of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. (U.S. G.P.O., 1977), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contraceptive social marketing (Agency for International Development, 1986), by Annette L. Binnendijk and United States. Agency for International Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regional safety program management seminars. Volume I of II. Final report. (1968) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baseline data for public education about alcohol and highway safety in Vermont. (1972), by Julian A. Waller, John K. Worden, and I. W. Maranville (page images at HathiTrust)
• A safety demonstration program for Oakland County, Michigan. Final report. (1973) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In-depth countermeasure report. Public information and education, licensing and registration, legislation and regulatory. Annual report. Section II-B. (1974) (page images at HathiTrust)
• San Antonio Alcohol Safety Action Project annual report for 1973. Section II-A-7. An analysis of public information activity and an in-depth countermeasure report for PI & E countermeasures. (1974), by Thomas E. Hawkins, D. E. Camann, R. McCoy, and L. K. Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of public information and education, 1975. (1976), by Thomas E. Hawkins and Evelyn J. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• ASAP public information and education. Analytic study number seven. Final report. (1975), by Roy N. Byrd and J. Dame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of materials and public relations efforts to promote child passenger safety. Final report. (1980), by David Alan Wyrick, Dianne B. Sontag, and Kenneth W. Heathington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The message from the media: drinking and driving in newspapers. Final report. (1985), by Rhoda Estep and Lawrence Marshall Wallack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Increasing correct use of child safety seats. Final report. (1986), by Sybil W. Simpkins and Sue Korenbaum Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Automotive advertising copy test. Final report. (1984) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examination of media coverage of increasing the speed limit to 65 mph. Final report. (1988), by C. Walcoff, M. Hallman, and S. Monahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Responses of women and men to traffic safety messages: a qualitative report. (1994), by S. W. Morris, J. Lynch, James W. Swinehart, and K. Lanza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of female driver response to impaired driving messages. (2000), by Douglas Lee Piper and V. Nelkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reducing fog-related crashes on the Afton and Fancy Gap Mountain sections of I-64 and I-77 in Virginia. (2002), by C. Lynn, C. Schreiner, and R. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designated driver safe ride program: community action guide. (2002) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pretesting in health communications : methods, examples, and resources for improving health messages and materials. (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 1983), by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pretesting in health communications : methods, examples, and resources for improving health messages and materials. (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 1981), by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time-Warner merger : competitive implications : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial [sic] Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, March 14, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Role of the media in drug abuse prevention and education : hearing before the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on examining the role which the media could play in helping to put an end to the ravaging effects which drugs have come to have on the young people of this nation, April 6, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1984), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metric style guide for the news media. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1997), by National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers of the East-West Communication Institute. (East-West Center, East-West Communication Institute, 1972), by East-West Communication Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The changing nature of mass media. (1972), by United States. President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward really understanding media effects on advertising response : procedure and evidence (College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972), by Peter Wright and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Commerce and Business Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El papel de los medios de comunicación. (Agencia de Comunicación Internacional de los Estados Unidos de América, 1980), by Tom Bethell and United States. International Communication Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

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