Mediactive Book
Welcome to Mediactive 1.0 — the book version, at any rate.
We’ve posted the entire book (here’s the table of contents and a bunch of wonderful blurbs), and we’ve opened the comments on each of the pages that constitute the printed version.
Mediactive is available for purchase in print (Amazon, Lulu, Barnes & Noble, among others), and in ebook format for the Kindle
This project lives under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. You can download it here as a PDF. I’ll be adding other digital formats soon.
If you spot a mistake please let me know either in the comments or by sending me a message.
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In addition to selling books (and giving them away), I’m accepting donations:
If you make a donation and want to be listed as a Mediactive supporter, let me know.
(Please note: Contributions are not tax-deductible.)
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I think this is a great idea. I want to read every chapter.
Right now, I’m under contract to write a traditional book. You know, the kind with pages. But it is only sort of traditional. The characters will have cameo appearances on the book website as we near publication. The website will also have footage of me actually reporting the book. And I’ve been doing a lot of sound recording.
I’ve been struggling with how to create and maintain my web presence AS I write, because I am bound by a traditional book contract NOT to divulge the contents of the book before it comes out. So I can only blog about very general topics in the book until we near publication date.
I call the blog White Woman in the Barrio and it is very narrowly targeted to the book topic.
People tell me I don’t pimp myself and my career accolades enough in the website. I wonder if a journalist’s awards and past glories are all that interesting? What do you think?
Nothing wrong with mentioning that you’ve won awards. But no business hands itself so many as journalism, which tells you something about the fundamental insecurity inside the craft…
As a Latin and Greek scholar, I hate that word “mediactive”. It seems as though it is missing a syllable. OTOH, “mediaactive” would be even worse, although it would sound right. There ought to be some other stem that could be combined with “media-” to yield a really kewl new word, a coinage that would live through the ages. – Just my casual thoughts here…
I cannot locate any stock at amazon. Where else can this book be purchased?
It’s definitely available via Amazon — check this link.
They’re out of stock…
Wonderful subject matter and utterly essential for paddling through all the crap. I do not have kindle or nook, but did open the pdf file. Am i correct to assume that the links do not work in pdf? And if not, can I purchase an online version of the book that would allow me to follow the links?
Thanks, and thanks for undertaking such an important project.
jm
The links should work even in the PDF.
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We have identified this as our study guide in our Digital Journalism class at Walla Walla Community College. While it is free to download the pdf, I’m happy to buy it on Kindle, as it is more convenient than reading off a laptop. But I wonder who is really getting paid if I buy the Kindle version, does Amazon take all or does the author get part of it. And if the author does get paid by Amazon, is it the same as the hard copy version? If not I’d be pleased to make up the difference as a supporter of Mediactive.
Thank you so much for your interest in the book. As the author I get a cut of the Kindle price (the majority, actually) as well as the hard-copy price.