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• Assessing Community Telecentres: Guidelines for Researchers, by Anne Whyte (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

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

• A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude Elwood Shannon (PDF at Harvard)
• Radio Electronics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1956), by Samuel Seely (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications, by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Development and the Information Age: Four Global Scenarios for the Future of Information and Communication Technology (1997), ed. by John Howkins and Robert Valantin (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Journal of Communications: JCM (2006-) (full serial archives)
• The Bell System Technical Journal (partial serial archives)
• Bell Laboratories Record (partial serial archives)

• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World (prepublication version, 2010), by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg (PDF with commentary at Cornell)

• Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2009), by Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan David Aronson, contrib. by Donald Abelson (PDF with commentary at globalinfoandtelecom.org)
• Critical Connections: Communication for the Future (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Critical Connections: Communication for the Future (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Keeping the U.S. Computer and Communications Industry Competitive: Convergence of Computing, Communications, and Entertainment (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Domestic Satellite: An FCC Giant Step (originally published 1977), by Robert S. Magnant (PDF files at mac.com)

• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (2008), by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Seán Ó Siochrú, contrib. by Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)

• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (free online edition; last updated 2020), by Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie (HTML with commentary at systemsapproach.org)
• High Performance Browser Networking (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2013), by Ilya Grigorik (illustrated HTML with commentary at hpbn.co)
• Introduction to the New Mainframe: Networking (Poughkeepsie, NY: IBM International Technical Support Organization, c2006), by Mike Ebbers, Christopher Hastings, Matt Nuttall, and Micky Reichenberg (PDF at ibm.com)
• City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1996), by William Mitchell (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Stacks: Interoperability in Today's Computer Networks (c1992), by Carl Malamud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computer-Based National Information Systems: Technology and Public Policy Issues (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers (2001), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Your Internet Consultant: The FAQs of Life Online (1994), by Kevin Savetz (HTML at savetz.com)
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet (1987), by Ed Krol (Gutenberg text)
• Digital Creativity (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996), by Owen Kelly (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
• Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond (1994), by National Research Council NRENAISSANCE Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)
• High-Performance Computing and Networking for Science: Background Paper (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (Creative Commons-licensed PDF, c2008), by David Bollier (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice (online editions), by Olivier Bonaventure (multiple formats in Belgium)
• PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing, by Al Geist, Adam Beguelin, Jack Dongarra, Weicheng Jiang, Robert Manchek, and Vaidy Sunderam (HTML at netlib.org)
• Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization, by Gene I. Rochlin (HTML at Princeton)

• Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Francisco Yus (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers (2007), by Peter John Chen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), ed. by Trevor J. Blank (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2014), ed. by Douglas A. Vakoch (multiple formats at NASA)

• Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything (Berkeley: Apress Open, c2013), by Francis daCosta (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Open)

• Communications-Electronics, 1962-1970 (Washington: Department of the Army, 2002), by Thomas Matthew Rienzi (PDF at US Army CMH)

• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• The Telegraphic Transmission of Photographs (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by T. Thorne Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vision by Radio, Radio Photographs, Radio Photograms (c1925), by C. Francis Jenkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wireless Transmission of Photographs (second edition; London: The Wireless Press, 1919), by Marcus J. Martin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Basic Pulses (New York: J. F. Rider, c1958), by Irving M. Gottlieb (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Radio Electronics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1956), by Samuel Seely (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Modern Radio (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1944), by Kingdon S. Tyler, illust. by James Mac Donald (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Elements of Radio (New York and San Francisco: Prentice-Hall, 1943), by Abraham Marcus and William Marcus, ed. by Ralph E. Horton (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The MYE Technical Manual (Indianapolis: P. R. Mallory and Co., c1942), by and Co. P. R. Mallory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radio as a Career (from the Kitson Careers series; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1940), by J. L. Hornung (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Magic Dials: The Story of Radio and Television (New York: Lee Furman, 1939), by Lowell Thomas, illust. by Anton Bruehl (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Story of Radio (second edition; New York: The Dial Press, 1935), by Orrin E. Dunlap (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Radio Decade (1930), by Radio Corporation of America (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Radio Markets of the World, 1930 (US Dept. of Commerce trade promotion series, #109; Washington: GPO, 1930), by Lawrence D. Batson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Electric Word: The Rise of Radio (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Paul Schubert (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Methods, Formulas, and Tables for the Calculation of Antenna Capacity (Washington: GPO, 1928), by Frederick W. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radio Industry: The Story of its Development, As Told by Leaders of the Industry to the Students of the Graduate School of Business Administration, George F. Baker Foundation, Harvard University (Chicago et al.: A. W. Shaw, 1928), contrib. by David Sarnoff, J. Anton De Haas, Elmer Eustice Bucher, James G. Harbord, Frank B. Jewett, E. P. Edwards, Stephen B. Davis, H. P. Davis, Merlin Hall Aylesworth, J. L. Ray, Pierre Boucheron, and Harold C. Weber (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Understanding Vectors and Phase (fourth printing; New York: J. F. Rider, 1958), by John F. Rider and Seymour D. Uslan (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The A.B.C. of Radio: The Underlying Principles of Wireless Telephony in Simple Language With Explanatory Drawings and Glossary (second edition; New York: M. H. Ray, c1922), by Waldemar Kaempffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Construction of Radio Phone and Telegraph Receivers for Beginners (New York: N. W. Henley Pub. Co., 1922), by M. B. Sleeper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Radio Amateur's Hand Book (1922), by A. Frederick Collins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Radio Experimenter's Hand Book: A Book to Answer the Practical Problems of Beginners and Advanced Students of Radio Experimental Work (New York: De Forest Radio Tel. and Tel. Co., 1920), by M. B. Sleeper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Radio for All (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1922), by Hugo Gernsback
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Radio Telephony (New York: The Wireless Press, c1918), by Alfred N. Goldsmith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Standard Radio Guide: Wireless Explained in Simple Language With Pictures, Diagrams, Radio Map and Complete Directions for Using Receiving Outfits (popular edition; New York: Popular Science Monthly, c1922) (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• All About Broadcasting (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1942), by Creighton Peet (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• The Cathode-Ray Tube at Work (New York: J. F. Rider, c1935), by John F. Rider (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice (New York: McGraw Pub. Co., 1905), by A. Frederick Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "WWJ, The Detroit News": The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the Earliest and Foremost of Newspaper Stations; Together With Information on Radio for Amateur and Expert (Detroit: Evening News Association, 1922), by Detroit News (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• You're on the Air (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by Graham McNamee and Robert Gordon Anderson, contrib. by Heywood Broun (multiple formats at Google)
• Masters of Space: Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone (1917), by Walter Kellogg Towers (Gutenberg text)

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