This book would not have been written without the support and assistance of a large number of colleagues who have in various ways contributed to the project. So, first, we would like to individually thank our respective supporters.

David would like to thank Mansfield College, University of Oxford, for electing him a Visiting Fellow during 2015/16, which offered a hugely supportive and scholarly environment in which to complete this book – and especially Pam Berry, Tony Lemon and John Ovenden, with whom he enjoyed many Wednesday evening Formals. David would also like to thank colleagues in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex and the members of the Sussex Humanities Lab: particularly Caroline Bassett, Tim Hitchcock, Sally Jane Norman, Rachel Thomson and Amelia Wakeford, and, in the Computational Culture strand, Beatrice Fazi, Ben Roberts and Alban Webb. David is also grateful to the University of Sussex for support for the Sussex Humanities Lab and for digital humanities and computational media at Sussex – particularly Michael Davies, Debbie Foy-Everett and Alan Lester. He would also like to give thanks for the continued support of colleagues: Christian Ulrik Andersen, Armin Beverungen, Ina Blom, Melanie Bühler, Michael Bull, Mercedes Bunz, Natalia Cecire, Andrew Chitty, Faustin Chongombe, Christian De Cock, Natalie Cowell, Michael Dieter, Kathryn Eccles, Wolfgang Ernst, Leighton Evans, Gordon Finlayson, Paul Flather, Jan Freeman, Matthew Fuller, Steve Fuller, Alex Galloway, Craig Gent, David Golumbia, Ground Coffee House in Lewes (particularly Beth, John and Rick), Andres Guadamuz, David Hendy, Lorna M. Hughes, Tim Jordan, Athina Karatzogianni, Raine Koskimaa, Alan Liu, Paul Lodge, Geert Lovink, Thor Magnusson, The Mansfield College Porters, Chris Marsden, Ursula Martin, Derek McCormack, William Merrin, Peter Nagy, Jussi Parikka, Luciana Parisi, The Pelham Arms, Alison Powell, Andrew Prescott, Ned Rossiter, David De Roure, Lucinda Rumsey, Darrow Schecter, Paul Solman, Bernard Stiegler, Nathaniel Tkacz, Transmediale, Iris van der Tuin, Craig Vear, Pip Willcox and the many, many people he may have forgotten to include. Additionally, David would like to thank his Ph.D. students: Yilmaz Aliskan, Emma Harrison, Isla-Kate Morris and Carina Westling for their continued discussions. Many thanks also have to be expressed to Anders Fagerjord who has been a wonderfully collaborative and thoughtful co-writer. Finally, David would also like to thank his partner, Trine Bjørkmann Berry, and their children, Helene, Henrik Isak and Hedda Emilie, for accepting the disruption to family life from writing yet another book.

Anders would like to thank all his fantastic colleagues at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, particularly Terje Colbjørnsen, Charles Ess, Bente Kalsnes, Lucy Küng, Maren Moen, Marius Øfsti, Terje Rasmussen, Tanja Storsul, Espen Ytreberg, the members of the band Stimulus Response, and Gunnar Liestøl, who introduced him to digital humanities more than two decades ago. His Ph.D. students Joakim Karlsen and Kim Johansen Østby have also introduced him to new areas and ideas, for which he is truly grateful. The Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, let him share an office space there for several months when this book was being written, and he would like to give thanks for the hospitality and support extended by Rune Arntsen, Kurt Gjerde, Stein Unger Hitland, Leif-Ove Larsen and Terje Thue. While there, he also enjoyed many fruitful discussions, including those with Dag Elgesem, Jostein Gripsrud, Lars Nyre, Eirik Stavelin and Bjørnar Tessem. He would also like to thank his many friends and colleagues for continued support over the years, including Espen Aarseth, Cheryl Ball, Jay Bolter, Taina Bucher, Martin Engebretsen, Gail Hawisher, Steve Jones, Anders Olof Larsson, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Andrew Morrison, Cuiming Pang, Jill Walker Rettberg and Scott Rettberg. Finally, he would like to thank David Berry, who first came up with the idea for this book and invited him to take part, something he has enjoyed immensely.

We would both like to thank the team at Polity, who have been very supportive throughout the writing process. We would also like to thank Marcus Leis Allion for his wonderful cover design and for agreeing to take on the project. We are grateful to all the colleagues who have supported the writing of this book, and especially those who hack and those who yack in the digital humanities.