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Introduction 19can see it unfolding online. Social movements have always engaged intransmedia organizing; organizers bring the battle to the arena of ideas byany media necessary.I hope this book can help us move past the current round of debatesabout social movements and social media. It is past time to challengenarrow conceptions of the movement-media relationship. Let ’ s replaceboth paeans to the revolutionary power of the latest digital platform andreductive denunciations of “ clicktivism ” with an appreciation of the richtexture of social movement media practices. Along the way, I hope thatthis book also may provide useful lessons for activists as they attempt tonavigate a rapidly changing media ecology while organizing to transformour world.