Melissa Wall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5669015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Wall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Wall |
| SIGNATURE | WALL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Northridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 233 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pop Up Newsrooms and Engaged Journalism
Resistance to Denmark’s Ad Hoc Campaign Against Asylum Seekers
This paper examines actions taken in response to the Danish government’s use of policies and public communications to try to asylum seekers crossing its border. Drawing on interviews with grassroots civil society organizations and refugees as well as assessment of refugee-oriented public projects, this analysis finds that civil society and refugees engaged in a range of actions to resist national policies. Such actions included the production of …
Digital Global Collaboration: New Ways to Teach International Reporting
World issues and news organizations’ operational realities have become so complicated that journalism professionals realize collaboration is the only solution to quality reporting on global issues. Journalism schools need to train their students in the key elements of global collaboration so they can prepare them to stay relevant and cover as many aspects of global events and their implications as possible. This syndicate discussed these issues a…
Social Navigation and the Refugee Crisis: Traversing “Archipelagos” of Uncertainty
This reflection considers the thematic issue “Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes” through the lens of social navigation which takes into account the fluidity and uncertainty of the refugee and forced migrant condition whether in flight, emplaced, or at a temporary stopping point. Refugees who are able to “read” their social environment will be more successful in developing practices…
Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism: In newsrooms, classrooms and beyond
Citizen and participatory journalism occupy key positions in today’s news media environment, having become expected, regularized components of breaking and other forms of news as well as the topics
Citizen Journalism: A retrospective on what we know, an agenda for what we don’t
This article reviews the state of research on citizen journalism over the past decade. The key areas covered include the ways traditional journalism has responded to this phenomenon from its early criticisms and later clumsy embrace of citizen content; the promises and perils of hyper-local citizen journalism; the intersections of social media tools and individual citizen content creators such as those on blogs and Twitter; citizen journalism in …
Syrian refugees and information precarity
This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant information; the prevalence of irrelevant, sometimes danger…
Change the Space, Change the Practice: Re-imagining journalism education with the Pop-Up Newsroom
This paper explores the results of the introduction of the Pop-Up Newsroom, a virtual, temporary citizen journalism-style mobile news operation, to university student journalists. The results revealed two categories of response: those who embraced change and began to develop networked journalism identities; and those who advocated for the traditional brick-and-mortar newsroom and accompanying practices as preserving professional journalism identi…
Embedding content from Syrian citizen journalists: The rise of the collaborative news clip
The ways the New York Times has incorporated citizen videos from the Syrian conflict into its live blog, The Lede, is explored in this article. The analysis reveals the creation of a new journalistic element – the Collaborative News Clip – in which ordinary people are now producing immersive, emotional, multidimensional self-created videos that news outlets cooperatively incorporate into online content. The Collaborative News Clip is created thro…
Online maps and minorities: Geotagging Thailand’s Muslims
This article examines whether participatory media such as Flickr, with its seemingly unfettered tools for mapping citizen-created photographs, offers a means for a more comprehensive representation of minorities in a non-Western country. Assessment of geotags – markers designating longitude and latitude on an online map – associated with photographs of Thailand’s Muslims suggests that by replicating common stereotypes, user-generated content may …
In the battle(field): The US military, blogging and the struggle for authority
Africa on YouTube: Musicians, Tourists, Missionaries and Aid Workers
YouTube videos featuring the countries Ghana and Kenya were assessed, finding that this citizen media tool is allowing ordinary people to construct representations of African countries but that these are much more likely to come from westerners. Although these African countries are not represented as chaotic and violent as has often been the case in the past, they continue to be stereotyped. Africans unaccompanied by westerners are most likely to…
BBC News in the United States: A `super-alternative' news medium emerges
This article focuses on BBC News in the United States, where recent developments suggest that a new, powerful ‘multifaceted’ BBC is emerging – one that integrates the many elements of this venerable yet still-dynamic modern institution. Thanks to its unique combination of historically derived institutional credibility, solid non-commercial funding base, and a newly acquired ‘cool’ cachet, the BBC brand in the United States can now be presented in…
Window on the Wider World”: The rise of British news in the United States
Elite British news media such as the BBC, The Economist and the Guardian have experienced large increases in US audiences in the post-September 11 media environment. This article explores the nature and extent of this new “British invasion,” outlining key institutional, cultural and journalistic factors distinguishing mainstream US media from their UK counterparts. In particular, the British are seen as stepping into a void created by shrinking U…
Social movements and email: Expressions of online identity in the globalization protests
This study focuses on three email lists — one used by a professional organization (Friends of the Earth) and two by grass roots, street-level participants (Direct Action Network and People's Global Action) — in the Seattle World Trade Organization protests. Each list was examined in terms of how it contributed to the expression of collective identities online. Each group's list employed at least one of three processes identified here as key to co…
Circling the Wagons: Containing the Downing Street Memo Story's Impact in America
Within the context of a sharp rise in Americans' access to foreign news, especially since September 11, 2001, this article examines the limits of effectiveness of such foreign news influences in influencing the public debate on major policy issues within the United States. With the focus on a major U.K.-originated news story—the “Downing Street Memo” and subsequent leaked U.K. government documents—the article applies and expands the concepts of b…
Blogging Gulf War II
This frame analysis of blogs active during the second Gulf War found that overall, bloggers worked within existing discourses about the war, primarily employing pro-war and anti-war frames. The blogs also promoted blogging itself as a solution to the problems of reporting on war as some bloggers saw themselves as improvements on mainstream media
Asterix Repelling the Invader: Globalization and Nationalism in News Coverage of Jose Bove and the McDonald's Incident
This article examines Associated Press and Agence France-Presse wire service coverage of Frenchman Jose Bove's 1999 ransacking of a Millau, France, McDonald's, as well as his subsequent trial. News media coverage of this incident represents an opportunity to examine deeper issues surrounding globalization, nationalism, and the media's-in this case, international news agencies'-role in constructing and maintaining both. Analysis suggests that both…
Constructing the Kurds in the Turkish press: A case study of Hürriyet newspaper
Blogs of war: Weblogs as news
This article examines current events weblogs or blogs that were particularly active during the second US war with Iraq, in the spring of 2003. Analysis suggests that these blogs are a new genre of journalism that emphasizes personalization, audience participation in content creation and story forms that are fragmented and interdependent with other websites. These characteristics suggest a shift away from traditional journalism’s modern approach t…
The Rwanda Crisis: An Analysis of News Magazine Coverage
American media traditionally have created one-dimensional portraits of intracountry conflict in Africa. Worldwide changes since the end of the Cold War have given many media observers hope that African violence might be covered more insightfully. To see whether this was true, news magazine coverage of the 1994 Rwanda crisis was analyzed. Findings suggest that some patterns such as viewing African events through an East-West frame have disappeared…
A `Pernicious New Strain of the Old Nazivirus' and an `Orgy of Tribal Slaughter: A Comparison of US News Magazine Coverage of the Crises in Bosnia and Rwanda
This study compares US news magazine coverage of conflict occurring in Bosnia and Rwanda. Bosnia's violence was characterized as an aberration for Europeans, while Rwanda's violence was presented as typical of Africans. Coverage suggests that in Bosnia, participants made a logical, albeit evil, decision to commit violence in an attempt to seek revenge for past grievances. In contrast, Rwanda's violence is depicted as having no logical explanation…
Blogs of war: Weblogs as news
This article examines current events weblogs or blogs that were particularly active during the second US war with Iraq, in the spring of 2003. Analysis suggests that these blogs are a new genre of journalism that emphasizes personalization, audience participation in content creation and story forms that are fragmented and interdependent with other websites. These characteristics suggest a shift away from traditional journalism’s modern approach t…
Syrian refugees and information precarity
This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant information; the prevalence of irrelevant, sometimes danger…
Embedding content from Syrian citizen journalists: The rise of the collaborative news clip
The ways the New York Times has incorporated citizen videos from the Syrian conflict into its live blog, The Lede, is explored in this article. The analysis reveals the creation of a new journalistic element – the Collaborative News Clip – in which ordinary people are now producing immersive, emotional, multidimensional self-created videos that news outlets cooperatively incorporate into online content. The Collaborative News Clip is created thro…
Blogging Gulf War II
This frame analysis of blogs active during the second Gulf War found that overall, bloggers worked within existing discourses about the war, primarily employing pro-war and anti-war frames. The blogs also promoted blogging itself as a solution to the problems of reporting on war as some bloggers saw themselves as improvements on mainstream media
Social movements and email: Expressions of online identity in the globalization protests
This study focuses on three email lists — one used by a professional organization (Friends of the Earth) and two by grass roots, street-level participants (Direct Action Network and People's Global Action) — in the Seattle World Trade Organization protests. Each list was examined in terms of how it contributed to the expression of collective identities online. Each group's list employed at least one of three processes identified here as key to co…
Constructing the Kurds in the Turkish press: A case study of Hürriyet newspaper
The Rwanda Crisis: An Analysis of News Magazine Coverage
American media traditionally have created one-dimensional portraits of intracountry conflict in Africa. Worldwide changes since the end of the Cold War have given many media observers hope that African violence might be covered more insightfully. To see whether this was true, news magazine coverage of the 1994 Rwanda crisis was analyzed. Findings suggest that some patterns such as viewing African events through an East-West frame have disappeared…
Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism: In newsrooms, classrooms and beyond
Citizen and participatory journalism occupy key positions in today’s news media environment, having become expected, regularized components of breaking and other forms of news as well as the topics
Change the Space, Change the Practice: Re-imagining journalism education with the Pop-Up Newsroom
This paper explores the results of the introduction of the Pop-Up Newsroom, a virtual, temporary citizen journalism-style mobile news operation, to university student journalists. The results revealed two categories of response: those who embraced change and began to develop networked journalism identities; and those who advocated for the traditional brick-and-mortar newsroom and accompanying practices as preserving professional journalism identi…
BBC News in the United States: A `super-alternative' news medium emerges
This article focuses on BBC News in the United States, where recent developments suggest that a new, powerful ‘multifaceted’ BBC is emerging – one that integrates the many elements of this venerable yet still-dynamic modern institution. Thanks to its unique combination of historically derived institutional credibility, solid non-commercial funding base, and a newly acquired ‘cool’ cachet, the BBC brand in the United States can now be presented in…
Online maps and minorities: Geotagging Thailand’s Muslims
This article examines whether participatory media such as Flickr, with its seemingly unfettered tools for mapping citizen-created photographs, offers a means for a more comprehensive representation of minorities in a non-Western country. Assessment of geotags – markers designating longitude and latitude on an online map – associated with photographs of Thailand’s Muslims suggests that by replicating common stereotypes, user-generated content may …
Africa on YouTube: Musicians, Tourists, Missionaries and Aid Workers
YouTube videos featuring the countries Ghana and Kenya were assessed, finding that this citizen media tool is allowing ordinary people to construct representations of African countries but that these are much more likely to come from westerners. Although these African countries are not represented as chaotic and violent as has often been the case in the past, they continue to be stereotyped. Africans unaccompanied by westerners are most likely to…
Circling the Wagons: Containing the Downing Street Memo Story's Impact in America
Within the context of a sharp rise in Americans' access to foreign news, especially since September 11, 2001, this article examines the limits of effectiveness of such foreign news influences in influencing the public debate on major policy issues within the United States. With the focus on a major U.K.-originated news story—the “Downing Street Memo” and subsequent leaked U.K. government documents—the article applies and expands the concepts of b…
A `Pernicious New Strain of the Old Nazivirus' and an `Orgy of Tribal Slaughter: A Comparison of US News Magazine Coverage of the Crises in Bosnia and Rwanda
This study compares US news magazine coverage of conflict occurring in Bosnia and Rwanda. Bosnia's violence was characterized as an aberration for Europeans, while Rwanda's violence was presented as typical of Africans. Coverage suggests that in Bosnia, participants made a logical, albeit evil, decision to commit violence in an attempt to seek revenge for past grievances. In contrast, Rwanda's violence is depicted as having no logical explanation…
In the battle(field): The US military, blogging and the struggle for authority
Asterix Repelling the Invader: Globalization and Nationalism in News Coverage of Jose Bove and the McDonald's Incident
This article examines Associated Press and Agence France-Presse wire service coverage of Frenchman Jose Bove's 1999 ransacking of a Millau, France, McDonald's, as well as his subsequent trial. News media coverage of this incident represents an opportunity to examine deeper issues surrounding globalization, nationalism, and the media's-in this case, international news agencies'-role in constructing and maintaining both. Analysis suggests that both…
Resistance to Denmark’s Ad Hoc Campaign Against Asylum Seekers
This paper examines actions taken in response to the Danish government’s use of policies and public communications to try to asylum seekers crossing its border. Drawing on interviews with grassroots civil society organizations and refugees as well as assessment of refugee-oriented public projects, this analysis finds that civil society and refugees engaged in a range of actions to resist national policies. Such actions included the production of …
Window on the Wider World”: The rise of British news in the United States
Elite British news media such as the BBC, The Economist and the Guardian have experienced large increases in US audiences in the post-September 11 media environment. This article explores the nature and extent of this new “British invasion,” outlining key institutional, cultural and journalistic factors distinguishing mainstream US media from their UK counterparts. In particular, the British are seen as stepping into a void created by shrinking U…
The Rwanda Crisis: An Analysis of News Magazine Coverage
American media traditionally have created one-dimensional portraits of intracountry conflict in Africa. Worldwide changes since the end of the Cold War have given many media observers hope that African violence might be covered more insightfully. To see whether this was true, news magazine coverage of the 1994 Rwanda crisis was analyzed. Findings suggest that some patterns such as viewing African events through an East-West frame have disappeared…
A `Pernicious New Strain of the Old Nazivirus' and an `Orgy of Tribal Slaughter: A Comparison of US News Magazine Coverage of the Crises in Bosnia and Rwanda
This study compares US news magazine coverage of conflict occurring in Bosnia and Rwanda. Bosnia's violence was characterized as an aberration for Europeans, while Rwanda's violence was presented as typical of Africans. Coverage suggests that in Bosnia, participants made a logical, albeit evil, decision to commit violence in an attempt to seek revenge for past grievances. In contrast, Rwanda's violence is depicted as having no logical explanation…
Asterix Repelling the Invader: Globalization and Nationalism in News Coverage of Jose Bove and the McDonald's Incident
This article examines Associated Press and Agence France-Presse wire service coverage of Frenchman Jose Bove's 1999 ransacking of a Millau, France, McDonald's, as well as his subsequent trial. News media coverage of this incident represents an opportunity to examine deeper issues surrounding globalization, nationalism, and the media's-in this case, international news agencies'-role in constructing and maintaining both. Analysis suggests that both…
Constructing the Kurds in the Turkish press: A case study of Hürriyet newspaper
Blogs of war: Weblogs as news
This article examines current events weblogs or blogs that were particularly active during the second US war with Iraq, in the spring of 2003. Analysis suggests that these blogs are a new genre of journalism that emphasizes personalization, audience participation in content creation and story forms that are fragmented and interdependent with other websites. These characteristics suggest a shift away from traditional journalism’s modern approach t…
Blogging Gulf War II
This frame analysis of blogs active during the second Gulf War found that overall, bloggers worked within existing discourses about the war, primarily employing pro-war and anti-war frames. The blogs also promoted blogging itself as a solution to the problems of reporting on war as some bloggers saw themselves as improvements on mainstream media
Social movements and email: Expressions of online identity in the globalization protests
This study focuses on three email lists — one used by a professional organization (Friends of the Earth) and two by grass roots, street-level participants (Direct Action Network and People's Global Action) — in the Seattle World Trade Organization protests. Each list was examined in terms of how it contributed to the expression of collective identities online. Each group's list employed at least one of three processes identified here as key to co…
Circling the Wagons: Containing the Downing Street Memo Story's Impact in America
Within the context of a sharp rise in Americans' access to foreign news, especially since September 11, 2001, this article examines the limits of effectiveness of such foreign news influences in influencing the public debate on major policy issues within the United States. With the focus on a major U.K.-originated news story—the “Downing Street Memo” and subsequent leaked U.K. government documents—the article applies and expands the concepts of b…
Window on the Wider World”: The rise of British news in the United States
Elite British news media such as the BBC, The Economist and the Guardian have experienced large increases in US audiences in the post-September 11 media environment. This article explores the nature and extent of this new “British invasion,” outlining key institutional, cultural and journalistic factors distinguishing mainstream US media from their UK counterparts. In particular, the British are seen as stepping into a void created by shrinking U…
Africa on YouTube: Musicians, Tourists, Missionaries and Aid Workers
YouTube videos featuring the countries Ghana and Kenya were assessed, finding that this citizen media tool is allowing ordinary people to construct representations of African countries but that these are much more likely to come from westerners. Although these African countries are not represented as chaotic and violent as has often been the case in the past, they continue to be stereotyped. Africans unaccompanied by westerners are most likely to…
BBC News in the United States: A `super-alternative' news medium emerges
This article focuses on BBC News in the United States, where recent developments suggest that a new, powerful ‘multifaceted’ BBC is emerging – one that integrates the many elements of this venerable yet still-dynamic modern institution. Thanks to its unique combination of historically derived institutional credibility, solid non-commercial funding base, and a newly acquired ‘cool’ cachet, the BBC brand in the United States can now be presented in…
In the battle(field): The US military, blogging and the struggle for authority
Online maps and minorities: Geotagging Thailand’s Muslims
This article examines whether participatory media such as Flickr, with its seemingly unfettered tools for mapping citizen-created photographs, offers a means for a more comprehensive representation of minorities in a non-Western country. Assessment of geotags – markers designating longitude and latitude on an online map – associated with photographs of Thailand’s Muslims suggests that by replicating common stereotypes, user-generated content may …
Change the Space, Change the Practice: Re-imagining journalism education with the Pop-Up Newsroom
This paper explores the results of the introduction of the Pop-Up Newsroom, a virtual, temporary citizen journalism-style mobile news operation, to university student journalists. The results revealed two categories of response: those who embraced change and began to develop networked journalism identities; and those who advocated for the traditional brick-and-mortar newsroom and accompanying practices as preserving professional journalism identi…
Embedding content from Syrian citizen journalists: The rise of the collaborative news clip
The ways the New York Times has incorporated citizen videos from the Syrian conflict into its live blog, The Lede, is explored in this article. The analysis reveals the creation of a new journalistic element – the Collaborative News Clip – in which ordinary people are now producing immersive, emotional, multidimensional self-created videos that news outlets cooperatively incorporate into online content. The Collaborative News Clip is created thro…
Citizen Journalism: A retrospective on what we know, an agenda for what we don’t
This article reviews the state of research on citizen journalism over the past decade. The key areas covered include the ways traditional journalism has responded to this phenomenon from its early criticisms and later clumsy embrace of citizen content; the promises and perils of hyper-local citizen journalism; the intersections of social media tools and individual citizen content creators such as those on blogs and Twitter; citizen journalism in …
Syrian refugees and information precarity
This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant information; the prevalence of irrelevant, sometimes danger…
Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism: In newsrooms, classrooms and beyond
Citizen and participatory journalism occupy key positions in today’s news media environment, having become expected, regularized components of breaking and other forms of news as well as the topics
Social Navigation and the Refugee Crisis: Traversing “Archipelagos” of Uncertainty
This reflection considers the thematic issue “Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes” through the lens of social navigation which takes into account the fluidity and uncertainty of the refugee and forced migrant condition whether in flight, emplaced, or at a temporary stopping point. Refugees who are able to “read” their social environment will be more successful in developing practices…
Digital Global Collaboration: New Ways to Teach International Reporting
World issues and news organizations’ operational realities have become so complicated that journalism professionals realize collaboration is the only solution to quality reporting on global issues. Journalism schools need to train their students in the key elements of global collaboration so they can prepare them to stay relevant and cover as many aspects of global events and their implications as possible. This syndicate discussed these issues a…
Resistance to Denmark’s Ad Hoc Campaign Against Asylum Seekers
This paper examines actions taken in response to the Danish government’s use of policies and public communications to try to asylum seekers crossing its border. Drawing on interviews with grassroots civil society organizations and refugees as well as assessment of refugee-oriented public projects, this analysis finds that civil society and refugees engaged in a range of actions to resist national policies. Such actions included the production of …
Pop Up Newsrooms and Engaged Journalism
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