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Online social networks -- Social aspects

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• 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)

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 with commentary at umn.edu)
• 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 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.org
  • 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)
• 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 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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 (PDF files with commentary at oclc.org)

• 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 with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Social Media in Northern Chile: Posting the Extraordinary Ordinary (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Nell Haynes
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), ed. by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Ross Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Aging in the Social Space (Białystok-Kraków: Association of Social Gerontologists, 2015), by Łukasz Tomczyk and Andrzej Klimczuk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at SSOAR

• Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry, ed. by J. K. Jackson (HTML at UNU Press)

• How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Karl Steel (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF at esa.int)

• Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Social Rule: A Study of the Will to Power (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (open access edition; New York and London: Routledge, 2022), by Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter (PDF files at taylorfrancis.com)

• Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jonathan Alexander (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Banks and Social Responsibility (ACSJC occasional paper #17; North Blackburn, Vic.: CollinsDove, c1993), by David Farmer (PDF in Australia)

• Data Feminism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism Through Big Data (London: University College London Press, 2022), by Chiara Bonacchi (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Essays of a Biologist (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)

• Violence and Disruption in Society: A Study of the Early Buddhist Texts, by Elizabeth J. Harris (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Buddhism and Social Action: An Exploration, by Ken Jones (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary Stampede (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Max Foran (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Who Survives Cancer? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Howard P. Greenwald (HTML at UC Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.