I’m very impressed! It’s an amazing book, interweaving your personal life with some of the great dramas of the past decade, all told from the perspective of how social media enables, amplifies, and challenges protest movements. Your journalistic skills bring great satisfactions as you tell the compelling stories of the protesters and your own engagement from Chiapas to Gezi Park to Tahrir Square and beyond. The most dramatic moment was at Antalya Airport when you saw the video of tanks on the Bosporus, and realized that a coup was in progress, so you needed to get your checked bag back and find a safer place. Equally your sociology skills bring vital insights about how social media have become part of the world-wide political story, especially for protest movements. You document and catalog how protests can be formed quickly, without the long process of capacity development that was manifest in the civil rights movement. At the same time you make it painfully clear that many of these rapidly assembled protest movements just can’t sustain their efforts, adapt their tactics, or accept the idea of leadership structures, and therefore often fail to achieve their goals. Your nifty theorizing comes across clearly, e.g. signaling and the way that movements need to build their narrative, disruptive, and electoral/political capabilities. This was a helpful guide to understanding what happened, including how governments are able to crack down on leaders. Your technology skills also brought insights in your descriptions of the differing affordances for each social media platform, making it clear why Twitter became the platform of choice for protest movements – suitable balance of anonymity/reputation, easy access, and appropriate openness. Your stories of abuses on Reddit and other platforms provide valuable lessons about what needs to be fixed. The opening chapter was more difficult reading, with too many long complex sentences and fewer of the colorful stories. I was pleased to see the warm appreciation for Dean Gary Marchionini – I’m pleased he was so supportive to you. Overall, an important and vital book, filled with insights and compelling stories that stick in my mind.