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• 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)

• Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Charles Musser (HTML at UC Press)

• The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Martin M. Winkler (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Pictorial History of Radio (New York: Bonanza Books, c1960), by Irving Settel (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• Sound and Fury: An Informal History of Broadcasting (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1942), by Francis S. Chase (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Broadcast Advertising: The Fourth Dimension (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1931), by Frank A. Arnold (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• Found, Featured, Then Forgotten: U.S. Network TV News and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (c2011), by Mark D. Harmon (PDF files with multimedia at Newfound Press)

• America's Team, the Odd Couple: A Report on the Relationship Between the Media and the Military (Nashville: Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, c1995), by Frank Aukover and William P. Lawrence (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People (2004), by Dan Gillmor (PDF files with commentary at oreilly.com)
• Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present (2012), by C. W. Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky (multiple formats at towcenter.org)

• Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (2002), by Library of Congress
  • Part 1: PDF at digitalpreservation.gov
  • Part 2: PDF at digitalpreservation.gov
• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (third edition, 2007), by National Information Standards Organization (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at niso.org)
• Preserving Digital Information, by Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information (HTML at rlg.org)

• Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age (2013), by National Academy of Public Administration (PDF with commentary at napawash.org)

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (2003) (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

• The Section 108 Study Group Report: An Independent Report Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (2008), by Section 108 Study Group (PDF with commentary at section108.gov)

• Digital Youth with Disabilities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Meryl Alper (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)
• Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2011), by Becky Herr-Stephenson, Diana Rhoten, Dan Perkel, and Christo Sims (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, and Information Credibility (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Andrew J. Flanagin and Miriam J. Metzger (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Negro Press in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922), by Frederick G. Detweiler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1968 reprint: page images at HathiTrust
• The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1891), by I. Garland Penn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Immigrant Press and its Control (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Robert Ezra Park (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memory and Popular Film (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), ed. by Paul Grainge (PDF at oapen.org)
• Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Eric Loren Smoodin and Ann Martin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Pop Culture Versus Real America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), ed. by Jonathan Margolis, Martin J. Manning, and Megan A. Wong (PDF at usembassy.gov)

• How Far Should Government Control Radio? (1946), by Robert D. Leigh
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees (the "Blue Book"; 1946), by United States Federal Communications Commission (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• The Radio Station: Management, Functions, Future (New York: G. W. Stewart, c1946), by Jerome Sill (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Radio: The Fifth Estate (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1946), by Judith C. Waller (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Who, What, Why is Radio? (revised edition; New York: G. W. Stewart, ca. 1946), by Robert J. Landry (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Who, What, Why is Radio? (first edition; New York: G. W. Stewart, c1942), by Robert J. Landry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC of Radio (c1938), by National Association of Broadcasters (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Sex and Broadcasting: A Handbook on Starting a Radio Station for the Community (third edition; San Francisco: Dildo Press, 1975), by Lorenzo W. Milam (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Armed Forces Radio and Television Broadcast Guide (third edition, 1961), by United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• America's First Television Tour: Demonstrating, Describing the Art and Science of Seeing at a Distance (c1939), by National Broadcasting Company (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Armed Forces Radio and Television Broadcast Guide (third edition, 1961), by United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• Report to the President by the Attorney General on Deceptive Practices in Broadcasting Media (Washington: GPO, 1959), by United States Department of Justice (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• Test Pattern for Living (1972), by Nicholas Johnson (HTML at wordpress.com)
• Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Fabienne Darling-Wolf (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

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