Conferences

2000-2014

  • Journalism and Nationalism in Eretz Israel. in honor of Professor Gideon Koutz. Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi. May 30, 2013.
  • Passages in the Media. in honor of Professor Dan Caspi, Ben Gurion University, April 23, 2013.
  • A Fresh look at the emerging on-line press. Presented at the 16th annual ISCA conference, Tel-Aviv University. April 3-4, 2012.
  • Chair and discussant, Regulation and Media panel, the 16th annual ISCA conference, Tel-Aviv University. April 3-4, 2012.
  • Communication and Education. Jerusalem Municipality, Education Day. March 23, 2012.
  • On Criticism of the Media and in the Media. Delivered at the launch evening of the book “Agenda: Media, Society and Politics”. Tel Aviv. Beit Sokolov. October 4, 2011.
  • Accelerated Americanization of the Electoral Propaganda: Initiated Transformations in the Political Culture in Israel. (with Baruch Leshem).  Adam Mickiewicz University with Brit Ivrit Olamit. September 21-24, 2011, Poznań
  • The social role of media. Kineret College, May 4, 2011.
  • Chair and discussant, The impact of media on public trust toward the Justice. 15th annual ISCA conference,  Haifa University. April 14, 2011.
  • Chair, Sociology of or without Communication, 42nd annual conference of the Israeli Sociology Society, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, February 7-8. 2011.
  • Chair, Propaganda and Conflict in the Middle East. the 14th annual ISCA conference, IDC. Herzliya. March 25, 2010.
  • The 'Wallkeepeers": the information wall in the Israel-Arab conflict.  25th AIS annual conference. SapirCollege. (with Danny Rubinstein and Eleanor Lev.). June 2, 2009.
  • Valka a medialni ekologie v Izraeli" (War and the Communication Ecology in Israel). Congress at the KarlUniversity with Brit Ivrit Olamit. Prague. October 16-19, 2006.
  • Chair, US Official Rhetoric and the “War on Terrorism”,  ICA Convention, New Orleans. May 27-31, 2004.
  • Old and New Media – by and for Jews. Panel on Jewish Press in Vilnius. Vilnius University. September 16-17, 2003.
  • From Pravda to Vesty: The Russian Media Renaissance in Israel, presented at the conference on Mass Media and Communication in the Society of the 21st Century. MoscowUniversity, October 17-19, 2002 (with Nelly Elias).
  •  Media in Tranzitie si  Impactul ei asupra Valorilor Sociale (Media in Transition and their Impact on Social Values),  delivered at the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation International Conference on “How to Achieve the Values of the New Society. Bucuresti, September 25-28, 2002.
  • Chat, don’t shoot: Verbal Violence in Cyberwars, presented at the conference on Cyberwar between Israel and Palestine: New Media Battles in the Middle East and their European Perspective. LMU. Munich. June 29th, 2001.
  • Journalism without Journalists: Online journalism in Israel, presented at the annual Smart conference on Old media and new technologies. Jerusalem. June, 10-11. 2001.
  • Re-membering the Palestinian Identity: The Case of the Arab Israeli Press (with Mustafa Kabha) Presented to  the 17th Annual Meeting of The Association for Israel Studies. Washington, May 15-18, 2001.
  • The Construction of cultural identities: communication of the minorities communities, presented at the 32nd annual conference of the Israeli Association of Sociology. (with Hanna Adoni and Akiva Cohen). Jerusalem, February 4-5, 2001.
  • Hybrid identities – communication uses by cultural minorities, presented at the fifth annual conference of the Israeli Communication Association. (with Hanna Adoni and Akiva Cohen). Tel Aviv. December 12, 2000.

before  2000

  • Being here but Feeling there:  The Case of Russian Media in Israel. Presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. (with Nelly Elias). San Francisco, May 27-31, 1999.
  • Being Media-For and Seeming Media-By: The Case of Arab Media in Israel. Presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. (with Akiba A. Cohen, Bielal Shalata & Eyal Sandberg). San Francisco, May 27-31, 1999.
  • When Americanization Fails? From Democracy to Demediocracy in Israel. Presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of The Association for Israel Studies. Washington, May 23-25, 1999.
  • It Takes Two to… Leak. Presented at the 47 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association Conference. (with Yehiel Limor). Montreal, May 22-26. 1997.
  • The Palestinian “Mediators: The Creation and Growth of the Mass Media in the Palestinian Autonomy”. Presented at the 11th GIF Conference on Role of Mass Media in Democracies. Berlin, 26-28 June, 1996.
  • One Thousand Ways to Control the Mass Media. Presented at the 46 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Conference, Chicago. (with Yehiel Limor). May 23-27, 1996
  • Desperately Seeking Public Opinion. Presented at the International Symposium in Honor of Elihu Katz, Jerusalem.  May 7-9, 1996.
  • Changes in Electoral Campaigning in Israel. Presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Sydney. July 11-15, 1994.
  • The Americanization of Election Campaigns in Israel. Presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Miami. May 21-25, 1992.
  • Media and Political Violence: The Academic View. (Chairperson). International Symposium on the Media .Protest and Political Violence". Jerusalem. June 9-14, 1991.
  • The ‘Satellite Function’ of Mass Media in Democracy. Presented at the Joint Convention of IAMCR and WAPOR. (with Chaim C. Eyal). Paris, September, 1982.
  • Jews and Arabs in Israel. Presented at the Center for International Affairs Seminar on Ethnic Self-Determination and Conflict. (with Mitchell A. Seligson). Harvard. April 9, 1980.
  • Political Tolerance in Israel. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Association. (with Mitchell A. Seligson). Washington, September, 1979.