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Managing Electronic Media: Making, Moving and Marketing Digital Content

Name: Managing Electronic Media: Making, Moving and Marketing Digital Content
Author: Joan Van Tassel
ISBN: 9780080927800

by Joan Van Tassel, Lisa Poe-Howfield

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Overview

This college-level media management textbook reflects the changes in the media industries that have occurred in the past decade. Today's managers must address new issues that their predecessors never faced, from the threats of professional piracy and casual copying of digital media products, to global networks, on-demand consumption, and changing business models. The book explains the new new vocabulary of media moguls, such as bandwidth, digital rights management, customer relations management, distributed work groups, centralized broadcast operations, automated playlists, server-based playout, repurposing, mobisodes, TV-to-DVD, and content management. The chapters logically unfold the ways that managers are evolving their practices to make content, market it, and deliver it to consumers in a competitive, global digital marketplace. In addition to media companies, this book covers management processes that extend to all content-producing organizations, because today's students are as likely to produce high-quality video and Web video for ABC Computer Sales as they are for the ABC Entertainment Television Network.

About the Author, Joan Van Tassel

Joan Van Tassel, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at National University. She was an award-winning television producer for ten years, wrote on technology and technology management for The Hollywood Reporter, and consulted with major companies on content management projects and digital rights management. She is the author of five books on the business of media content in the networked environment. Her book, Digital TV Over Broadband (Focal Press), received the 2001 Cable Center Book Award from the National Cable Center and Museum.

Lisa Poe-Howfield is the General Manager for KVBC TV 3 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the NBC affiliate for Southern Nevada. Prior to joining KVBC, Lisa held positions with Warner Bros., Rhino Records and Polygram. Howfield was awarded the Broadcasting & Cable magazine “2008 General Manager of the Year” in markets 26+ within the United States. Lisa grew up in Las Vegas, graduated from Bonanza High School, and went on to earn her B.A. degree in Business Communications from Pepperdine University in California. She is married to former NFL kicker, Ian Howfield and has a son, Kyle Root, who attends the University of Nevada Reno.