Writing and Editing for Digital Media (3rd edition) – PDF

The Writing and Editing for Digital Media 3rd edition (PDF) eBook is designed for high school and college students to learn how to write effectively for digital spaces. Whether it’s blogging, writing for an app, crafting a story for a website, or using social media to expand the conversation, this eBook provides exercises and lessons in every chapter to build a solid understanding of the ways that digital communication has introduced opportunities for multi-directional communication and dynamic storytelling.

This revised and updated 3^rd edition by Brian Carroll pays particular attention to opportunities presented by the growth of social media and mobile media. Chapters aim to teach best practices in the areas of management, social media strategy, and use, and help communicators to approach storytelling from a multimedia, multi-modal, interactive perspective, putting their audiences first by focusing attention on user experience, user behavior, and engagement with their user bases. The eBook also assists digital communicators in understanding the socially networked, increasingly mobile, always-on, geo mapped, personalized media ecosystems.

The 3^rd edition has been updated with pedagogy and contemporary examples, it broadens its scope, helping digital writers and editors in all fields, including marketing, public relations, and social media management. It includes examples from the 2016 presidential election that Trump won, an expanded look at using social media.

Reviews

Scott Warnock from Drexel University says “In the latest edition of his textbook, Carroll does just what he promises: He keeps pace with the complex and often, as he says, a blurry world of digital media while maintaining a solid journalistic grounding in the fundamentals of digital writing and editing.”

Ashley J. Holmes, from Georgia State University says “A superb presentation of conceptual frameworks grounded in practical examples, Writing and Editing for Digital Media 3e prompts students to bridge design with content, voice with style, and argumentation with ethics. The new and expanded coverage of data visualization, geo-mapping, and social media guides users to develop increasingly interactive and multimodal digital textbooks.”

Margena A. Christian from the University of Illinois at Chicago says “Digital spaces keep evolving. Social media constantly keeps changes. Adroit storytelling, precision writing and tight editing are forever. This textbook links foundational journalism principles with ambient media values to cleverly teach methods as content creators. Exercises and lessons are practical for identifying the underpinnings of writing through use of various platforms.”

Heather Julien from Emory University says “The one ebook your college students will not want to get rid of when the course is over. Media studies, journalism, and multimodal composition students appreciate the combination of Carroll’s concrete advice in the context of his incisive appraisal of ever-changing new media landscapes. This is a tremendously versatile digital writer’s reference ebook that manages to be supremely practical and intellectually engaging at the same time.“