A: Audiobook
E: Ebook
OA: Open Access
Crystal Abidin, TikTok and Youth Cultures. SocietyNow series. Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2025.
A: *Adam Aleksic, Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
danah boyd, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).
Amy Bruckman, Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016).
Kyle Chayka, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture (New York: Doubleday, 2024).
OA: Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Jeff Shrager, Arthur I. Schwarz and Peggy Weil, Inventing ELIZA: How The First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI. Foreword by Janet Murray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2026.
Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London and New York: Verso, 2014).
Kate Eichhorn, Content. Essential Knowledge Series (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022).
Ann Elias, Ross Harley, and Nicholas Tsoutas, eds., Camouflage Cultures: Beyond the Art of Disappearance. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025.
Adrian Hon, You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All (New York: Basic Books, 2022).
A/E: *Freya India, GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything. New York: MacMillan Books, 2026.
A/E: *Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun: A Novel. New York: Penguin Random House, 2022.
Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, et al., #Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020).
John Jordan, Robots. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Essential Knowledge series.
E: Bogna Konior, The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2026.
A/E: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory (New York: Hachette Books, 2018).
A/E: Taylor Lorenz, Extremely Online: How the Internet Changed the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Play (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022}.
OA: Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli, Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media. 2019-24.
A/E: Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (New York: Pantheon Books, 2019).
Stefania Maurizi, Secret Power: Wikileaks and Its Enemies. Pluto Press, 2023.
E: Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead Books, 2019)
Torin Monahan, “The Right to Hide? Anti-Surveillance Camouflage and the Aestheticization of Resistance”. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2015, pp. 159–178.
A/E: Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (Alresford, Hampshire, UK: Zero Books, 2017).
A/E: Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World. New York: MacMillan, 2024.
Cathy O’Neil, with Stephen Baker, The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (New York: Crown/Random House, 2022).
Dominic Pettman, Ghosting: On Disappearance. New York: Polity Press, 2025.
Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015).
Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021).
Allissa V. Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
E: Hito Steyerl, Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat. London: Verso, 2026.
Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State. New York: Custom House, 2020.
Zeynep Tufekci, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
*Sherry Turkle, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk To Machines. Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Published 29 September.
Michele White, Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022).
Christopher Wylie, Mindf**k: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (New York: Random House, 2019).