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First and foremost, I extend my appreciation to my life partner Kay Collins for her insightful feedback about the revisions in the second edition. Her professional background as an intellectual property attorney was very helpful in understanding how digital technology has affected every profession and how AI might affect information-focused professions in the future.

I would like to thank my managing editor at Wiley-Blackwell, Andrew Minton, for his support during the year of research and writing for this edition. We were all working from home during the COVID-quarantine year of 2020, and Andrew and his executive editor Todd Green followed the progress of revising the manuscript with interest and encouragement. Special thanks to associate editor Nicole Allen and editorial assistant Sophie Bradwell at Wiley’s offices in Chichester in the United Kingdom for their fine work on preparing the manuscript for publication. I am greatly indebted to Carol Thomas for her thorough and detailed work copy-editing the text for each chapter and double-checking the links in the citations. Johannah Racz Knudson again provided a thorough and detailed index for the second edition.

A special note of appreciation goes to my colleague, Jaye Powers, who has taught online versions of our New Communication Technologies and Society course for the past decade. Each semester, Professor Powers asked her students to provide constructive written feedback on the first edition of this book, which I have incorporated in this new edition. This student-focused feedback was especially insightful in revising and updating this text.

I would like to thank my former students and colleagues in the Department of Journalism and Media Communication at Colorado State University for their support while I was a professor working my way up through the ranks. I retired in January of 2020, but have maintained my contacts with my friends among the faculty, chair Greg Luft, staff, and many graduates of our BS, MS, and MCMM programs over two decades of teaching and conducting research in communication technology. Specifically, I want to extend my appreciation to colleague Mike Humphrey and CSU social media expert Ashleigh Schroeder for their contributions to the key terms list.

Thanks to my faculty colleague Tim Amidon at CSU for the introduction to the insightful scholars Safiya Umoja Noble at UCLA and Shoshana Zuboff at Harvard. Their critical perspectives were included in the chapters on search technologies and privacy issues related to digital surveillance.

My son, Peter James Seel, contributed helpful feedback for the chapter on Alternative Digital Realities about digital game culture and e-sports, an area of personal expertise. Friend Michael Szczepaniak is a professional working in information technology and contributed to the chapter on artificial intelligence and machine learning with many helpful comments. Retired telephone company executive Clifton Phalen shared unique insights about working for one of the regional Bell operating companies when it was part of AT&T.

Continued thanks to the key individuals who provided guidance and valuable feedback in the first edition of this book. It would not have been written without the support of Elizabeth Swayze, my first editor at Wiley-Blackwell. She believed in the importance of the topic and provided ongoing encouragement through multiple drafts. Helpful comments about the content of the book were provided by my longtime friend and co-author on previous book projects, August E. “Augie” Grant, of the University of South Carolina. Amy Reitz and Carol Anderson Reinhardt assisted in editing early chapters and their input is gratefully appreciated. Don Zimmerman of Colorado State University was helpful in providing support from the Center for Research in Writing and Communication Technologies. I would also like to thank the graduate students enrolled in my telecommunication technology seminars for their insightful comments on the book’s first edition.

Assistance in locating photographs for inclusion in the book were provided by Marianne Heilig for her father’s photos, George Despres at MITRE, Lauren Skrabala at RAND, Angela Alvaro at Banco de Espana in Madrid, Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA, Dina Basin at SRI, Mekialaya White at KCNC-TV in Denver, Christine Engelbart and Mary Coppernoll at the Doug Engelbart Institute, Jayne Burke at NYU, Jan Walker at DARPA, Eric Mankin and Claude Zachary at USC, Sophie Tesauri at CERN, and by photographers Patrick Troud-Chastenet, Irene Fertik, and Gary MacFadden. Many images were provided by photographers via the Creative Commons, and this has become a helpful resource for authors and educators worldwide.