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Writing and Editing for Digital Media teaches students how to write effectively for digital spaces -- whether writing for an app, crafting a story for a website, blogging, or using social media to expand the conversation. The lessons and exercises in each chapter help students build a solid understanding of the ways that digital communication has introduced opportunities for dynamic storytelling and multi-directional communication. With this accessible guide and accompanying website, students learn not only to create content, but also to become careful, creative managers of that content. Updated with contemporary examples and pedagogy, including examples from the 2016 presidential election, and an expanded look at using social media, the third edition broadens its scope, helping digital writers and editors in all fields, including public relations, marketing, and social media management.
About the Author
Brian Carroll is Professor and Chair of Communication at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia. His first book, When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball, was published by Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, in 2007 and was named a finalist for SABR's Seymour Medal. It was also named Book-of-the-Year by the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society of American Baseball Research. Carroll's second book, Writing for Digital Media, was published by Routledge in March 2010, a book revised and expanded into Writing & Editing for Digital Media in 2014. In 2015, The Black Press and Black Baseball: A Devil's Bargain came out, also from Routledge.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Before earning his Ph.D., he was a reporter, photographer and editor for several publications, including the Greensboro News & Record, PC Gamer, and several trade newspapers and magazines.
