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AcknowledgmentsxviiI am thrilled to have found a home at MIT in the Department of ComparativeMedia Studies/Writing. My colleagues have been deeply supportive,especially T. L. Taylor and Jim Paradis, who have both been unerringguides, mentors, and advocates for an unconventional junior scholar.T. L. and Jim also provided detailed and very valuable feedback on themanuscript, as did Otto Santa Ana, Virginia Eubanks, Nancy Meza, ChrisSchweidler, and several anonymous readers from the MIT Press.CMS/W faculty and staff, including William Uricchio, Vivek Bald, FoxHarrell, Nick Montfort, Ian Condry, Heather Hendershot, Junot D í az,Helen Elaine Lee, Thomas Levenson, Kenneth Manning, Seth Mnookin,David Thorburn, Jing Wang, and Ed Schiappa, as well as Kurt Fendt, SarahWolozin, Scot Osterweil, Philip Tan, Andrew Whitacre, Susan Tresch Fienberg,Jill Janows, Mike Rapa, Becky Shepardson, Jessica Tatlock, PatsyBaudoin, Federico Casalegno, Jessica Dennis, Sarah Smith, Shannon Larkin,and Karinthia Louis, have created a welcoming space for deep discussionand debate around the questions that animate this book.It was a pleasure to work closely with Rogelio Alejandro Lopez, whoconducted a series of interviews with immigrant rights activists for thisproject and also for his own work. Rogelio ’ s master ’ s thesis, a comparativestudy of media practices in the farm workers movement and the immigrantyouth movement, shaped my thinking about transmedia organizing as anapproach that has been used throughout social movement history. I havealso greatly enjoyed discussing the dynamics of media, publicity, andhidden resistance with Sun Huan, the history of consensus process andprefigurative politics with Charlie De Tar, networked social movementswith Pablo Rey Maz ó n, and collaborative design with Aditi Mehta.Dan Schultz egged me on to keep pushing the limits; I still insist he ’ s adead ringer for Guy Fawkes. Joi Ito had me covered when there was blowback,and I can ’ t say more in public.Thanks also to the brilliant and hardworking crew at the Center forCivic Media, especially Ethan Zuckerman, whose tweets urged me acrossthe finish line, as well as Lorrie LeJeune, Rahul Bhargava, Ed Platt, BeckyHurwitz, and Andrew Whitacre. I am constantly amazed at the breadthand depth of knowledge across the Civic community. I have only onequestion for brilliant graduate students and fellows Chelsea Barabas,Willow Brugh, Denise Cheng, Heather Craig, Kate Darling, Rodrigo Davies,Ali Hashmi, Alexis Hope, Catherine d’Ignazio, Nick Grossman, Alexandre