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• 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)
• High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

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

• 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)
• Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges (1995), ed. by Nathaniel I. Durlach and Anne S. Mavor (page images with commentary at NAP)
• City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1996), by William Mitchell (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• The Heretic, by Jason K. Chapman (HTML at jasonkchapman.com)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• 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)

• Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space: Best Practices for Educators in Multi-User Virtual Environments (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2016), by Estelle Codier (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2010), by F. Gregory Lastowka (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Lori Kendall (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC 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)

• 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)

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