
- 346 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Writing and Editing for Digital Media
About this book
In this fifth edition, Brian Carroll explores writing and editing for digital media with essential information about voice, style, media formats, ideation, story planning, and storytelling.
Carroll explains and demonstrates how to effectively write for digital spaces and combines hands-on, practical exercises with new material on podcasting, multi-modal storytelling, misinformation and disinformation, and writing specifically for social media. Each chapter features lessons and exercises through which students can build a solid understanding of the ways that digital communication provides opportunities for dynamic storytelling and multi-directional communication. Broadened in scope, this new edition also speaks to writers, editors, public relations practitioners, social media managers, marketers, as well as to students aspiring to these roles. Updated with contemporary examples and new pedagogy throughout, this is the ideal handbook for students seeking careers in digital media, particularly in content development and digital storytelling.
It is an essential text for students of media, communication, public relations, marketing, and journalism who are looking to develop their writing and editing skills for these ever-evolving fields and professions.
This book also has an accompanying eResource that provides additional weekly activities, exercises, and assignments that give students more opportunity to put theory into practice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Writing for Digital Media: Laying the Foundation
- 2 Editing for Digital Media: Storytelling Strategies
- 3 Writing for Digital Media II: Tools and Techniques
- 4 Editing for Digital Media II: Creating the User Experience
- 5 Digital Storytelling: Generating Ideas and Publishing the Story
- 6 Doing Journalism
- 7 Responsible Advocacy: Public Relations and Social Media Management
- 8 Multimodal Storytelling: The Medium Is the Message
- 9 Misinformation and Disinformation: Credibility in a “Post-truth” Age
- 10 Knowing the Law: Intellectual Property, Libel, and Privacy
- Appendix: The Core Values of Digital Journalism
- Index