Melissa Wall

Assistant Professor

California State University - Northridge

melissawall@earthlink.net

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Media Experience

Africa in the media

Publications

• Social movements and the 'Net: Activist journalism goes digital. (Forthcoming Fall 2003). In K. Kawamoto (Ed.) Views from the horizon: Perspectives on digital journalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

• Puppets or press conferences: NGOs' vs. Street Groups' communication in the Battle of Seattle. (2003). Javnost/The Public, 10(1), 1-16. ABSTRACT

• The Battle in Seattle: How Nongovernmental Organizations used websites in their challenge to the WTO. (May 2002). In Eytan Gilboa (Ed.) Media and conflict: Framing issues, making policy and shaping opinions. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers.

• KFC into India: A case study of resistance to globalization discourse. (2000). In Robin Andersen and Lance Strate (Eds.), Critical studies in media commercialism (pp. 291-309). Oxford: Oxford University Press. See International Journal on Media Management 11/01 for review.

• Turning training into exchanging: Recommendations for Western-funded journalism programs. (1999). Journal of Development Communication, 10(2), 54-64. 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. (1997). Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 59(6), 121-134. ABSTRACT

• The Rwanda Crisis: An analysis of news magazine coverage. (1997). Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 59(2), 411-428. ABSTRACT