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Here are entered works on the content contributed by users to the various social, or user-generated, media.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Electronic information resources

• Social media

• User-generated content -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

• User-created content

• Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume (2011), by Daniel J. Cohen, ed. by Tom Scheinfeldt (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It (San Francisco: No Starch Press, c2008), by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates
  • multiple formats with commentary at howwikipediawork.net and archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom (c2008), ed. by Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton (HTML at Michigan)

• Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (online Wikipedian-edited edition; originally published 2008), by John Broughton (at en.wikipedia.org)

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

• 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)
• 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 Social Media Reader (New York and London: New York University Press, c2012), ed. by Michael Mandiberg (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 M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• 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)
• A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2020), ed. by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Ellen Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Leah A. Plunkett, contrib. by John Palfrey (illustrated HTML at MIT Press)
• Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (c2014), by Jon Dron and Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume (2011), by Daniel J. Cohen, ed. by Tom Scheinfeldt (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• eGirls, eCitizens (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015), ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie M. Steeves (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It (San Francisco: No Starch Press, c2008), by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates
  • multiple formats with commentary at howwikipediawork.net and archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• #Hashtagactivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2018), by Tarleton Gillespie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Social Media in Industrial China (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Xinyuan Wang
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Tom McDonald
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Social Media in an English Village: or, How to Keep People at Just the Right Distance (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• 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)

• Social Media in Southeast Italy: Crafting Ideals (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Razvan Nicolescu
  • PDF and HTML at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.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

• Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)

• The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2023), ed. by Richard Rogers (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• 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)
• Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (London: Pluto Press, c2012), by Paolo Gerbaudo (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Social Media and Hate (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Shakuntala Banaji and Ramnath Bhat (HTML and PDF at Taylor and Francis)
• Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2014), by Jill Walker Rettberg (multiple formats with commentary at palgraveconnect.com)

• Social Media Mining: An Introduction (prepublication draft, with supplementary materials; 2014), by Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, and Huan Liu (PDF with commentary at asu.edu)
• Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data (2019), by Lam Thuy Vo (HTML with commentary at socialdata.site)

• A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2020), ed. by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Ellen Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• 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
  • 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 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)

• 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 and Hate (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Shakuntala Banaji and Ramnath Bhat (HTML and PDF at Taylor and Francis)
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.