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Acknowledgments

This book is a collaborative effort of all the contributors, who spent more than two years working together in Google docs to draft, critique, and revise their pieces. This is not an easy process and their persistence, patience, and willingness to be part of this experiment is remarkable. For this, we thank our fellow curators and co-authors: Andee Baker, Anette Grønning, Anna Shchetvina, Carmel L. Vaisman, Cathy Fowley, Craig Hamilton, Cristina Nuñez, Crystal Abidin, Daisy Pignetti, Jeff Thompson, Jessa Lingel, Katie Warfield, Kevin Driscoll, Maria Schreiber, Nadia Hakim-Fernández, Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Polina Kolozaridi, Priya C. Kumar, Ryan Milner, Sarah Raine, Sarah Schorr, Son Vivienne, Terri Senft, Tijana Hirsch, Tobias Raun, Whitney Phillips, xtine burrough, Winnie Soon.

Annette: Speaking from my own perspective on the project, I admit I enjoyed the creative process much more than the management required to bring this volume to fruition. I liked tinkering with the order of chapters, the titles of various sections, the wording of authors’ sentences. I cherished the gift of editing the other authors’ texts to build what we hope reads as a strong cohesion across the chapters. In this meandering and playful curating process, I cannot begin to express my deep appreciation for Katrin’s continuous work to keep the project moving toward completion. Without her alternately fierce and gentle pressure, I would still be tweaking and fussing with the details of each of the contribution. Katrin skillfully managed the personalities, the logistics, and me. She is a brilliant scholar and a ←xv | xvi→true pleasure to work with. I consider myself one of the lucky few who get to work with her.

Katrin: Annette is the bravest scholar I have ever worked with—a pioneer, an innovator, an inspiration. She has the inimitable capacity to propose just-shy-of-outrageous ideas as a legitimate plan and the charisma to mobilize people around those ideas. Working with her is a transformative experience, an adventure and a privilege. Without Annette, I would not have dared to ask our collaborators for the trust needed for, nor taken on the monumental task of closely editing and remixing nearly 30 chapters after they had already gone through a rigorous and creative process of co-creation. Yet this is what we did, and this is what our amazing collaborators allowed us to do. I am so grateful to have been a part of this book and to have had the chance to learn so much from co-editing it with Annette.

We also thank the editorial team at Peter Lang, the Digital Formations series editor Steve Jones, The Cultural Transformations Research Programme at Aarhus University for their wonderful writing retreats, and the community of AoIR, the Association of Internet Researchers, who made space for this work in various conferences along the way.

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