Acknowledgments
Like editors of other collections addressing a rapidly changing topic, as coeditors of the Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication we have faced the lightning-in-a-bottle challenge of crystallizing the field’s immediacy, significance, and impact out of an editorial project that has taken years to plan and produce.
Originally conceived by one of us (Lievrouw) and long-time collaborator Sonia Livingstone as a completely new follow-up to the coedited Handbook of New Media (Lievrouw & Livingstone, 2002, 2006), discussions began with the original publishers nearly a decade ago, in 2012. Those plans were put on hold in late 2013, however, when Sonia had to withdraw from the project due to her other expanding research ...
