Melissa Wall

Social Media Go to War: Rage, Rebellion and Revolution in the Age of Twitter

Melissa Wall — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:58:07 +0000

This new book includes a chapter co-authored by Treepon Kirdnark, an alum of our MA program, on Thailand’s Red Shirt Uprising and YouTube. Other chapters cover social media and dissent in countries ranging from Cuba to Georgia and, of course, a number of pieces on the Arab Spring by authors such as Catherine Cassara and Lara Lengel, Sadaf Ali and Shahira Fahmy, Elizabeth Iskander and Mina Monir, Naila Hamdy and Lindsey Conlin and more.

Tagged: Arab Spring, Iran, Middle East, research, Social Media, Thailand, YouTube

Pop-Up Newsroom Election Coverage

Melissa Wall — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:52:36 +0000

Tagged: California State University Northridge, CSUN, journalism, multimedia, online journalism, pop-up newsroom, Social Media, students, Twitter

Pop-Up Newsroom Will Cover Election Day

Melissa Wall — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:17:02 +0000

Join the Pop-Up Newsroom, the temporary, virtual newsroom, by posting your election coverage (Tweets, photos, videos, audio) with the hashtag #popupvote.

Tagged: CSUN, Elections, journalism, news coverage, Newsroom, students

Pop-Up Newsroom is Here!

Melissa Wall — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:53:02 +0000

Fourteen student journalists from four continents speaking five languages (Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Spanish and Urdu) will cover downtown Los Angeles’ car-free event, CicLAvia, Sunday Oct. 7.

Follow them at @PopUpNewsroom, popupnews.tumblr.com, and pinterest.com/popupnewsroom/

Tagged: California State University Northridge, CicLAvia, CSUN, journalism, Los Angeles, mobile journalism, pop-up

Citizen Journalism: Valuable, Useless or Dangerous?

Melissa Wall — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:43:05 +0000

My book is now available for pre-order on Amazon. I’m especially pleased that it features a geographical range of researchers – from Egypt to South Africa to Taiwan.

Sections include:

Part 1: Citizen Journalism: Complement or Threat to Professional Journalism?

Part 2: Citizen Journalism: Should Quality Matter?

Part 3: When Citizen Journalism Promotes a Point of View

Part 4: Participation and Access: Which Citizens’ Voices?

Tagged: citizen journalism, journalism, research