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| ix Acknowledgments First and foremost, I thank the many authors who contributed to this volume. I thank both those who created new essays and those who gave their works a Creative Commons license that permitted me to use them here. If it were not for the freedom offered by these freely licensed texts, I would never have had the ability or inspiration to take on this project. Thank you for sharing. I conceived of this anthology while preparing a seminar on social media. The absence of any critical anthology prompted me to collect the writings that I thought were most important. The realization that many of these were Creative Commons licensed inspired me to transform this reading list into a table of contents for this book. I wish to thank the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, for its support of this project: C. W. Anderson, Cynthia Chris, Jeanine Corbet, David Gerstner, Janet Manfredonia, Tara Mateik, Edward D. Miller, Sherry Millner, Jason Simon, Matthew Solomon, Valerie Tevere, Cindy Wong, Bilge Yesil, and Ying Zhu. I am indebted to my colleagues at the CUNY Graduate Center: Steve Brier, Ashley Dawson, and Matthew Gold. I am grateful to the provost, William J. Fritz, for the support of the Provost’s Research Grant and to Dean Christine Flynn Saulnier and former dean Francisco Soto for their support of my research leaves and for the Dean’s Summer Research Assistantship. I edited this anthology during a leave as a senior fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, and I am deeply indebted to Eyebeam for the material support for this period of research and for the context from which to produce such a collection. Amanda McDonald Crowley offered me such a generous period of serious creative research, and Steve Lambert constantly pushed me to live, act, and create in line with my beliefs. I want to thank everyone at Eyebeam, including Ayah Bdeir, Jacob Ciocci, Jon Cohrs, Sarah Cook, Jeff Crouse, Patrick Davison, Jennifer Dopazo, Stephen Duncombe, Clara Jo, John Johnson, Simon Jolly, Emma Lloyd, Qimei Luo, Marisa Olson, Stephanie Pereira, Marc Schiller, Roddy Schrock, Brooke Singer, Marko Tandefelt, and Addie Wagenknecht. x | Acknowledgments Adam Hyde, Mike Linksvayer, kanarinka, Marta Peirano, Sissu Tarka, Astra Taylor, Alan Toner, and Mushon Zer-Aviv have been inspirational past and future collaborators. Grace M. Cho, Cynthia Chris, Mary Flanagan, Alex Galloway, Tiffany Holmes, and Marita Sturken provided invaluable guidance on the practicalities of publishing. Many thanks to my editors, Eric Zinner and Ciara McLaughlin, who saw the merits in this project. Thanks to Creative Commons for creating the legal framework that has made this collection possible: Lawrence Lessig for making this kind of sharing conceivable and for sharing his own work, Fred Benenson for being a personal inspiration for my own engagement with this process, and Mike Linksvayer again, though this time in his role at Creative Commons, where he provided information and references about Creative Commons licenses. Many thanks always to Sherry Millner, Ernie Larsen, and Nadja MillnerLarsen , xtine burrough, Stephen Mandiberg, Joseph Mandiberg, and Linda Mandiberg. ...

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