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• Online social networks
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• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph M. Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

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

• The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building Technologies for Communities (second edition, 2014), by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)
• Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (open access edition; Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2013), by Ulises Ali Mejias (PDF files at JSTOR)
• 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)
• Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective (London: UCL Press, c2017), by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)
• Facets of Facebook: Use and Users (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Kathrin Knautz and Katsiaryna S. Baran
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• It's Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2014), by danah boyd (PDF with commentary at danah.org)
• Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013), ed. by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
• The Art of Community (second edition; c2012), by Jono Bacon (PDF at artofcommunityonline.org)
• The Art of Community (first edition; c2009), by Jono Bacon (PDF with commentary at artofcommunityonline.org)
• Dungeons and Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), by Brad King and John Borland (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains (New York et al.: Seven Stories Press, c2022), by Vitalik Buterin, ed. by Nathan Schneider (PDF with commentary at nathanschneider.info)
• How the World Changed Social Media (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliana Spyer, S. Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities: Benefits and Challenges for Learning and Assessment (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by H. Cecilia Suhr (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• The Social Corps: The U.S.M.C. Social Media Principles (2011), by United States Marine Corps (PDF with commentary at dodlive.mil)
• United States Army Social Media Handbook (version 2, August 2011), by United States Army (page images at slideshare.net)

• Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation, and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2025), ed. by Bhaskar Chakravorti and Joel P. Trachtman (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge)

• Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Tijana Milosevic, contrib. by Sonia M. Livingstone (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Journal of Online Trust and Safety (2021-)

• Rethinking Social Media and Extremism (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2022), ed. by Shirley Leitch and Paul A. Pickering (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)
• Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life (Oakland: University of California Press, c2024), by Nathan Schneider, illust. by Darija Medić (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)
• Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), ed. by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker (PDF and HTML at Cambridge Core)
• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2017), by Zeynep Tufekci (PDF (at bottom of page) with commentary at twitterandteargas.org)

• Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution (New Brunswick, NJ, et al: Rutgers University Press, c2013), by Niki Akhavan
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2019), ed. by Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2007), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Andy Havens, Janet Hawk, and Lillie Jenkins (page images at OCLC)

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016), ed. by Ramon Lobato and James Meese (multiple formats at networkcultures.org)
• The YouTube Reader (Stockholm: National Library of Sweden, 2009), ed. by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (PDF in Sweden)

• Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools, by Jeannie Oakes, Molly Selvin, Lynn A. Karoly, and Gretchen Gulton (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1986), ed. by Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell, and Cedric D. J. Pugh (PDF in Australia)

• Serials Control and Deselection Projects (SPEC Kit #147; 1988), ed. by Association of Research Libraries Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• The Many Faces of Human Security: Case Studies of Seven Countries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Keith Muloongo, Roger Kibasomba, and Jemima Njeri Kariri (PDF at issafrica.org)

• Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Alexander Betts (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Press)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Negro Leadership Class (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Daniel C. Thompson, contrib. by Martin Luther King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), ed. by Francisco J. Pichón, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione (page images at Pitt)

• Development Projects in the Sudan: An Analysis of Their Reports With Implications for Research and Training in Arid Land Management (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1979), by Heinz-Ulrich Thimm (HTML at UNU Press)

• Alternative Agriculture (1989), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (multiple formats at NAP)

• African Agriculture: The Critical Choices (c1990), ed. by Hamid Ait Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua (HTML at UNU)

• Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies #11; 1984), by Robert C. Marshall (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Lost Territories of the Republic (Les Territoires Perdus de la Republique) (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), by Emmanuel Brenner, trans. by Robert Chodos and Susan Joanis, contrib. by Martine Trink Rubinstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Roberta Gilchrist (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Modernity and Housing (originally published 1993; open access edition with new preface, ca. 2018), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files at MIT)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.