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Writing for Digital Media book cover

1st Edition

Writing for Digital Media

By Brian Carroll Copyright 2010
328 Pages
by Routledge

Writing for Digital Media teaches students how to write effectively for online audiences—whether they are crafting a story for the website of a daily newspaper or a personal blog. The lessons and exercises in each chapter help students build a solid understanding of the ways that the Internet has introduced new opportunities for dynamic storytelling as digital media have blurred roles of media... Read more

Introduction

PART I: Foundations

1. On Writing Well

2. Digital Media versus Analog Media

PART II: Practice

3. Screen Writing: Online Style and Techniques

4. Headlines and Hypertext

5. Designing Places and Spaces

6. Getting It Right: Online Editing, Designing and Publishing

PART III: Contexts

7. Blogito, Ergo Sum: Trends in Personal Publishing

8. We the People, Part I: Citizen Journalism

9. We the People, Part II: News as Conversation

10. Getting Down to Business: Intranets, Extranets, Portals

11. Learning the Legal Landscape: Libel and Privacy in a Digital Age

Afterword: Core Values of Online Journalism

Biography

Brian Carroll is Associate Professor of Journalism at Berry College and Adjunct Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina. He is author of When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball (Routledge, 2006).

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