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Social aspects

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• Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
• Academic writing -- Social aspects
• Aesthetics -- Social aspects
• African Americans -- Color -- Social aspects
• Aging -- Social aspects
• Agriculture -- Social aspects
• Agroforestry -- Social aspects
• Alternative medicine -- Social aspects
• Animals -- Social aspects
• Antinuclear movement -- Social aspects
• Arabic language -- Social aspects
• Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
• Astronautics -- Social aspects
• Auditory perception -- Social aspects
• Australian languages -- Social aspects
• Authority -- Social aspects
• Authorship -- Collaboration -- Social aspects
• Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Social aspects
• Automation -- Social aspects
• Automobiles -- Social aspects
• Aymara language -- Social aspects
• Banks and banking -- Social aspects
• Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Social aspects
• Big data -- Social aspects
• Biology -- Social aspects
• Biotechnology -- Social aspects
• Blogs -- Social aspects
• Books and reading -- Social aspects
• Buddhism -- Social aspects
• Calgary Stampede -- Social aspects
• Cancer -- Social aspects
• Capitalism -- Social aspects
• Caricatures and cartoons -- Social aspects
• Cartography -- Social aspects
• Cartoon characters -- Social aspects
• Cartoons and children -- Social aspects
• Casinos -- Social aspects
• Chiropractic -- Social aspects
• Christian life -- Social aspects
• Cities and towns -- Social aspects
• Citizenship -- Social aspects
• City planning -- Social aspects
• Climatic changes -- Social aspects
• Clothing and dress -- Social aspects
• Coal -- Social aspects
• Cold War -- Social aspects
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
• Commercial products -- Social aspects
• Commons -- Social aspects
• Communication -- Social aspects
• Communication in learning and scholarship -- Social aspects
• Computer file sharing -- Social aspects
• Computer games -- Social aspects
• Computer networks -- Social aspects
• Computer programming -- Social aspects
• Computer software -- Social aspects
• Computers -- Social aspects
• Constitutional law -- Cross-cultural studies -- Social aspects
• Contraception -- Social aspects
• Cooking -- Social aspects
• Cooking, American -- Southern style -- Social aspects
• Corporate governance -- Social aspects
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Social aspects
• Creative writing -- Social aspects
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects
• Curriculum change -- Social aspects
• DNA -- Social aspects
• Dance -- Social aspects
• Data mining -- Social aspects
• Databases -- Social aspects
• Death -- Social aspects
• Debt -- Social aspects
• Decolonization -- Social aspects
• Democracy -- Social aspects
• Dental caries -- Prevention -- Social aspects
• Dental public health -- Social aspects
• Design -- Social aspects
• Digital communications -- Social aspects
• Digital media -- Social aspects
• Disaster relief -- Social aspects
• Drama -- Social aspects
• Dreams -- Social aspects
• Drug abuse -- Social aspects
• Dwellings -- Social aspects
• Earthquakes -- Social aspects
• Economic development -- Social aspects
• Education -- Social aspects
• Education, Higher -- Social aspects
• Electronic commerce -- Social aspects
• Electronic data processing -- Social aspects
• Electronic discussion groups -- Social aspects
• Electronic encyclopedias -- Social aspects
• Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects
• Emotions -- Social aspects
• Engineering -- Social aspects
• English language -- Social aspects
• Environmental risk assessment -- Social aspects
• Environmental sciences -- Social aspects
• Environmentalism -- Social aspects
• Ethnic food -- Social aspects
• Examinations -- Social aspects
• Fake news -- Social aspects
• Fame -- Social aspects
• Fashion -- Social aspects
• Fashion design -- Social aspects
• Fear -- Social aspects
• Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
• Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Social aspects
• Fiction -- Social aspects
• Financial crises -- Social aspects
• Firearms -- Social aspects
• Fishes -- Conservation -- Social aspects
• Food -- Social aspects
• Food habits -- Social aspects
• Forests and forestry -- Social aspects
• Gambling -- Social aspects
• Games -- Social aspects
• Gardens -- Social aspects
• Gay and lesbian dance parties -- Social aspects
• Gaze -- Social aspects
• Genes -- Social aspects
• Genetics -- Social aspects
• Geology -- Social aspects
• German language -- Social aspects
• Global warming -- Social aspects
• Globalization -- Social aspects
• Graffiti -- Social aspects
• Grief -- Social aspects
• Gynecology -- Social aspects
• HIV infections -- Chemotherapy -- Social aspects
• Health -- Social aspects
• Health promotion -- Social aspects
• Historiography -- Social aspects
• Homosexuality -- Social aspects
• Human biology -- Social aspects
• Human body -- Social aspects
• Human evolution -- Social aspects
• Human genetics -- Social aspects
• Human reproduction -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human skin color -- Social aspects
• Humanities -- Social aspects
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
• Hygiene -- Social aspects
• Hysteria -- Social aspects
• Immigrants -- Social aspects
• Imperialism -- Social aspects
• Imprisonment -- Social aspects
• Income distribution -- Social aspects
• Indonesia -- History -- Coup d'état, 1965 -- Social aspects
• Industrial management -- Social aspects
• Industries -- Social aspects
• Information networks -- Social aspects
• Information retrieval -- Social aspects
• Information science -- Social aspects
• Information society -- Social aspects
• Information superhighway -- Social aspects
• Information technology -- Social aspects
• Information visualization -- Social aspects
• Intellect -- Social aspects
• Intellectual property -- Social aspects
• Interactive computer systems -- Social aspects
• International business enterprises -- Social aspects
• International economic integration -- Social aspects
• International economic relations -- Social aspects
• International relations -- Social aspects
• Internet -- Social aspects
• Internet videos -- Social aspects
• Intimacy (Psychology) -- Social aspects
• Irony -- Social aspects
• Islam -- Social aspects
• Jazz -- Social aspects
• Journalism -- Social aspects
• Knowledge management -- Social aspects
• Landscapes -- Social aspects
• Language and education -- Social aspects
• Law -- Social aspects
• Leadership -- Social aspects
• Learning -- Social aspects
• Learning and scholarship -- Social aspects
• Leisure -- Social aspects
• Lesbianism -- Social aspects
• Linguistic change -- Social aspects
• Literacy -- Social aspects
• Literature publishing -- Social aspects
• Love -- Social aspects
• Management -- Social aspects
• Manufacturing processes -- History -- Social aspects
• Marital violence -- Social aspects
• Marketing -- Social aspects
• Markets -- Social aspects
• Marriage -- Social aspects
• Martial arts -- Social aspects
• Masculinity -- Social aspects
• Mass media -- Social aspects
• Materials -- History -- Social aspects
• Meat industry and trade -- Social aspects
• Medical education -- Social aspects
• Medical innovations -- Social aspects
• Medical technology -- Social aspects
• Memory -- Social aspects
• Microelectronics -- Social aspects
• Middle age -- Social aspects
• Mineral industries -- Papua New Guinea -- Lihir Islands -- Social aspects
• Miscegenation -- Social aspects
• Money -- Social aspects
• Motherhood -- Social aspects
• Motion picture theaters -- Social aspects
• Motion pictures -- Social aspects
• Multi-user dungeons -- Social aspects
• Multiple chemical sensitivity -- Social aspects
• Museums -- Social aspects
• Music -- Social aspects
• National parks and reserves -- Social aspects
• Nationalism -- Social aspects
• Natural disasters -- Social aspects
• Nature -- Social aspects
• Nature conservation -- Social aspects
• Newspaper publishing -- Social aspects
• Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects
• Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects
• Nudism -- Social aspects
• Nursing -- Social aspects
• Old age -- Social aspects
• Older people -- Medical care -- Social aspects
• Online social networks -- Social aspects
• Open access publishing -- Social aspects
• Open source software -- Social aspects
• Oral communication -- Social aspects
• Organized crime -- Social aspects
• Outdoor recreation -- Social aspects
• Performance art -- Social aspects
• Performing arts -- Social aspects
• Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects
• Pharmacology, Experimental -- Social aspects
• Philosophy, Chinese -- Social aspects
• Phonograph -- Social aspects
• Photography -- Social aspects
• Physical education and training -- Social aspects
• Plants -- Social aspects
• Play -- Social aspects
• Poetry -- Social aspects
• Political oratory -- Social aspects
• Political participation -- Social aspects
• Pornography -- Social aspects
• Postmodernism -- Social aspects
• Precarious employment -- Social aspects
• Prenatal diagnosis -- Social aspects
• Printing -- Social aspects
• Printing industry -- Social aspects
• Problem solving -- Social aspects
• Prophecy -- Social aspects
• Psychology, Pathological -- Social aspects
• Psychotherapy -- Social aspects
• Public administration -- Social aspects
• Public health -- Social aspects
• Public spaces -- Social aspects
• Quantitative research -- Methodology -- Social aspects
• Quotation -- Social aspects
• Race -- Social aspects
• Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects
• Rap (Music) -- Social aspects
• Real property -- Social aspects
• Religions -- Social aspects
• Report writing -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
• Reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Rhetoric -- Social aspects
• Robotics -- Social aspects
• Rock music -- Social aspects
• Russian language -- Social aspects
• Russian literature -- 20th century -- Social aspects
• Sanitation -- Social aspects
• Scholarly publishing -- Social aspects
• School choice -- Social aspects
• Science -- Social aspects
• Science fiction -- Social aspects
• Scientists -- Social aspects
• Sects -- Social aspects
• Self-help techniques -- Social aspects
• Self-perception -- Social aspects
• Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Social aspects
• Shrines -- Social aspects
• Skateboarding -- Social aspects
• Slavery -- Social aspects
• Sleep -- Social aspects
• Sleep deprivation -- Social aspects
• Sleep disorders -- Social aspects
• Social media -- Social aspects
• Sound recordings -- Social aspects
• Star Trek television programs -- Social aspects
• Steel industry and trade -- Social aspects
• Strangers -- Social aspects
• Street art -- Social aspects
• Subconsciousness -- Social aspects
• Substance abuse -- Social aspects
• Sustainability -- Social aspects
• Sustainable development -- Social aspects
• System analysis -- Social aspects
• Tea -- Social aspects
• Teaching -- Social aspects
• Technological innovations -- Social aspects
• Technology -- Social aspects
• Teenage pregnancy -- Social aspects
• Telecommunication -- Social aspects
• Telematics -- Social aspects
• Television -- Social aspects
• Television broadcasting -- Social aspects
• Television programs -- Social aspects
• Terrorism -- Social aspects
• Time -- Social aspects
• Tourism -- Social aspects
• Transgender people -- Social aspects
• Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects
• Transnationalism -- Social aspects
• Transportation -- Social aspects
• Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects
• Transsexualism -- Social aspects
• Trust -- Social aspects
• Tsetse-flies -- Control -- Social aspects
• Ubiquitous computing -- Social aspects
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
• Vaishnavism -- Social aspects
• Video games -- Social aspects
• Video games industry -- Social aspects
• Video recordings -- Social aspects
• Violence -- Social aspects
• Virtual reality -- Social aspects
• Visual perception -- Social aspects
• Water -- Fluoridation -- Social aspects
• Water-supply -- Social aspects
• Wit and humor -- Social aspects
• Women and peace -- Social aspects
• Work -- Social aspects
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects
• World of Warcraft (Game) -- Social aspects
• Wrestling -- Social aspects
• Zombies -- Social aspects

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Lester K. Spence (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism (1963, with a 2000 afterword), by Samuel Homola (HTML at chirobase.org)

• Some Social Remedies: Socialism, Anarchy, Henry Georgism and the Land Question, Communism, Etc. (Christchurch: Free Age Press, 1900), by Leo Tolstoy (bound with other pamphlets: multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, c2018), ed. by Vishwas Satgar (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (first published in French in 2009; English translation 2015), by Isabelle Stengers, trans. by Andrew Goffey (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by David Collings (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)
• An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security (2003; released 2004), by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), by Theodora Dragostinova (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2016), ed. by Sarah E. Pasfield-Neofitou and Cathy Sell, illust. by Queenie Chan (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Lori Khatchadourian
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), ed. by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray (PDF files at MIT)

• Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (c2012), by Philippe Aigrain, contrib. by Suzanne Aigrain (PDF with commentary at sharing-thebook.com)

• Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games (c2010), by David Myers (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Video Games and the Global South (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), ed. by Phillip Penix-Tadsen (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), by Bonnie A. Nardi (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1994), ed. by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning and Herbert Lin (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993), by Howard Rheingold (HTML at rheingold.com)
• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), by Yochai Benkler (PDF and HTML files with commentary at benkler.org)

• Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2013), by E. Gabriella Coleman (PDF with commentary at codingfreedom.com and gabriellacoleman.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)
• Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by James J. Brown (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and its Consequences (Toronto: Andsor books, c2013), by Andrei Sorin (PDF with commentary at softwareandmind.com)

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