Melissa Wall

Assistant Professor

California State University - Northridge

melissawall@earthlink.net

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Media Experience

Africa in the media

Conference Papers

  • "Like feeding time at the zoo": Analysis of U.S. newsmagazine coverage of the Iraqi Kurds. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Kansas City, To be presented July-August, 2003. ABSTRACT
  • Cyberactivism: Constructing social movement identities through e-mail. International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2003. ABSTRACT
  • Visions of the African press in colonial Kenya: What the nationalists imagined. International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2003. ABSTRACT
  • Repertoires of resistance: Communication tactics of the reformists and radicals in the Battle of Seattle. National Communication Association, New Orleans, November 2002.
  • Journalism training as ritual. National Communication Association, New Orleans, November 2002. ABSTRACT
  • The Battle in Seattle: Constructing movement identities. International Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona, July 2002. ABSTRACT
  • The Battle in Seattle: How NGOs used websites to challenge the WTO. International Communication Association, Washington, D.C., May 2001. ABSTRACT
  • The Westernizer, the Developer and the Azmari: Ethiopian journalists' discourses. International Communication Association, Acapulco, June 2000. Top student paper, Development Communication Division. ABSTRACT
  • "More Barney than Buddhist": How the media framed the story of the little lama.Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, August 1999. ABSTRACT
  • Turning training into exchanging: Recommendations for Western-funded journalism programs. International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 1999. ABSTRACT
  • Masiye Pambili: An African township magazine across four decades. International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 1999. ABSTRACT
  • A "pernicious new strain of the old Nazi virus" and an "orgy of tribal slaughter": A comparison of U.S. news magazine coverage of the crises in Bosnia and Rwanda. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, August 1997. Markham Award for best student paper, International Communication Division. ABSTRACT
  • New models for teaching assistants: The Research Mentor Program. Co-authors Hilary Karasz and Paula Reynolds. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, August 1997. Best student paper, best overall paper (co-author), Small Groups Division. ABSTRACT
  • KFC into India: A case study of resistance to globalization discourse. International Communication Association, Montreal, May 1997. ABSTRACT
  • Nigerian journalists, 1945-1966: "Nationalist campaigners," "makeshifts," or "professionals?" Western Journalism Historians, Berkeley, February 1997.

Updated May 2003