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

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

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Alternative and Mainstream Media: The Converging Spectrum (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2011), by Linda Jean Kenix (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2009), by Cori Elizabeth Dauber
  • multiple formats at armywarcollege.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and Its Consequences (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Chris Rojek (HTML with commentary at bloomsburycollections.com)

• Communist Activity in Mass Communications: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session (3 parts; Washington: GPO, 1958-1959), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, contrib. by A. G. Mezerik, Albert Eugene Kahn, Jerome B. Caplin, Oakley C. Johnson, and Milton Meltzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (New York, NY: American Business Consultants, 1950), by American Business Consultants (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Mediatization of the O. J. Simpson Case: From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation (Media Studies v102; Bielefeld: Transcript, 12023), by Tatjana Neubauer (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• "Taking a Bite Out of Crime": The Impact of a Mass Media Crime Prevention Campaign (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1984), by Garrett J. O'Keefe and Harold Mendelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyborgs in Latin America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by J. Andrew Brown (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore (Creative Commons licensed online edition, c2008), by Paul Carr (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy (New York: Institute for Distributed Creativity, c2011), ed. by Trebor Scholz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), ed. by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by James Paul Gee (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play: The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (2009), ed. by Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger (PDF at vt.edu)
• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), by Whitney Trettien (HTML with commentary at mn.edu)
• Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2019), by Justin Hodgson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Haidy Geismar (HTML and PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Douglas Eyman (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (2008), by Harold Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry R. Lewis (PDF with commentary at bitsbook.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age (c2013), by G. Wayne Clough (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)
• Debates in the Digital Humanities (enhanced electronic edition, 2013), ed. by Matthew K. Gold (Javascript-dependent HTML at CUNY)
• The Future of the Curriculum: School Knowledge in the Digital Age (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Ben Williamson (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Mediactive (c2010), by Dan Gillmor (HTML and PDF with commentary at mediactive.com)

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