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We are grateful to many people for supporting us in the writing of this book, from colleagues, to family, and beyond. We initially decided a book on Instagram seemed like a good idea, and we were a good team to write it, at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) annual conference in Berlin in 2016. AoIR has been the intellectual home for all three of us, and there are so many friends and colleagues in that, and subsequent conferences and exchanges, who have helped shape our thinking about Instagram and visual social media cultures.

Many of our scholarly friends and colleagues have contributed to our thinking about specific parts of this book, and supported us as we have written; we would like to thank in particular Greg Acciaioli, Kath Albury, Sophie Bishop, Jean Burgess, Paul Byron, Nicholas Carah, Christina Chau, Gemma Cobb, Alberto Cossu, Rob Cover, Sky Croeser, Amy Dobson, Brooke Erin Duffy, Stefanie Duguay, Sara Ekberg, Katie Ellis, Liz Ellison, Alex Gekker, Tarleton Gillespie, Ysabel Gerrard, John Hartley, Anne Helmond, Natalie Hendry, Jenny Kennedy, Mike Kent, Ben Light, Ariadna Matamoros Fernández, Anthony McCosker, Lee McGowan, Kate Miltner, Peta Mitchell, Sharif Mowlabocus, Sabine Niederer, Sarah Oates, Gwyneth Peaty, Thomas Poell, Jill Walker Rettberg, Bernhard Rieder, Brady Robards, Richard Rogers, Natalia Sánchez Querubín, Eleanor Sandry, Michael Stevenson, Katrin Tiidenberg, Emily van der Nagel, Fernando Van Der Vlist, Son Vivienne, Katie Warfield, Esther Weltevrede, and Patrik Wikström.

Tim would also like to acknowledge the support of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, where aspects of this work were funded by his 2015–2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship, and to thank his University of Amsterdam MA students, who provided inspiration and raised additional points of interest through their own Instagram research: Renate Brulleman, Anya Doshi, Annika Heinemeyer Nora Lauff, Abby Listerman, Anna Vallianatou and Donna Wielinga.

We would also like to thank all those who have offered feedback and suggestions at the numerous conferences, symposia, workshops, and other events at which elements of this book have been presented. In particular, Tama and Tim would like to acknowledge the participants of their Instagrammatics digital methods workshops, for their contributions and engagement and for bringing their own research interests to the questions and provocations we’ve asked, at: CCI Digital Methods Summer School (Melbourne, 2015; Brisbane, 2016); QUT Digital Media Research Centre digital methods series (Brisbane, 2015); Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) digital methods preconference (Phoenix, 2015; Montréal, 2018); and Digital Methods Initiative Summer School (Amsterdam, 2017; 2018).

We would like to express our thanks to Mary Savigar and Ellen MacDonald-Kramer at Polity for their faith in this book, and their patience, professionalism and support in helping shape it into the best possible form it could be. We would also like to specially thank our sketch artist, mistercrow, for lending their artistic talents to this book, and acknowledge our appreciation to @boufesg, @collettemiles, and @ongxavier for allowing us to reproduce their Instagram images for our academic discussions.

Tama would specifically like to thank Emily for her patience, support and understanding while working on this book, and Henry, Tom, Rose and Lottie for reminding me that the very best of my life does not exist on social media. Emily’s dad, Geoff, and Tama’s parents, Margaret and Bob, have also been incredibly helpful and supportive during the time this was written. Tama would also like to thank Tim and Crystal: I wouldn’t want to write a book with anyone else!

Tim would like to thank Kate, first and foremost. Writing has not been easy lately, and this one in particular was a struggle; it could not have happened without your irreplaceable generosity and advice, kindness, support and patience, in the face of my challenges. I cannot thank you enough here. Tim also thanks his family: Elaine, Tony, Hannah, Jamie, and Anais; and in particular, thanks go to Tony for his incredible work in developing the early Instagram tracker and data capture tool. Finally, Tim would like to thank Tama and Crystal, for their enthusiasm and dedication to this project, for pushing it in new and exciting directions, and for their amazing work in making this book happen.

Crystal would like to thank her Instagram husband, Sherman, for supporting her ethnographic research on this book by obliging to take every #OOTD shot in the best possible natural light, being patient at every eatery when instaworthy food flatlays demand documentation, and for spiritedly indulging me whenever I ask you to choose between Instagram filters (even though everything looks the same to you because you ‘don’t do Instagram’). Crystal would also like to thank Tim for his friendship, collegiality, and immense penchant for witty but embarrassing puns, and Tama for his supremely generous mentorship since we first met in 2013, for sharing snippets of his family Instas that always brighten my day, and for his leadership in steering this book to completion.