Patricia Zimmermann is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Her most recent books are Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places with Dale Hudson (2015); Open Spaces: Openings, Closings, and Thresholds in International Public Media (2016); The Flaherty: Fifty Years in the Indie Cause, with Scott MacDonald (2017); Open Space Collaborative New Media: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (2018); Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics (2019); and Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar (2021), co-edited with Scott MacDonald. Together with Louis Massiah, she has scheduled the national traveling exhibition We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media.