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A graphic designer, lecturer and researcher based in Tel Aviv. A graduate of the Visual Communication department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, holding an M.A degree from the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts from Tel Aviv University and a PhD candidate in the department of communication and journalism in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. My dissertation focuses on visual representation of gender in urban signage. I examine human pictograms which appear in official urban signage (OUS) in Dizengoff street, Tel Aviv, as meaningful linguistic landscape (LL) artifacts that play a significant role in the institutionalizing and normalizing of visual representation of gender.
Research Interests:
Visual communication in public space
Representation of gender
Wayfinding systems and urban signage
Graphic design ethics
Awards and Prizes:
2020 - The "Chevruta" scholarship for Doctoral Reading Groups
2020 - The Smart Institute of Communication Research Grant
2019 - The Lafer Center for Women's and Gender Studies scholarship
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My dissertation focuses on social media use and religious identity change. Specifically, I focus on the experience of Muslim Arab women who use social media while becoming more religious despite possible rejection from their immediate environment. My recent work focuses on identity and media use among Arabs in Israel. This research population can be investigated to understand individual and collective identity-formation in times of personal and social crises while witnessing the ongoing development of media technologies.
Research Interests
Identity
Digital religion
New media
Narratives
Selected Publication
Birkner, T., Agbarya, A., Meyers, O., & Somerstein, R. (2022). The News Media and the Ever-Present Fear in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. In Media and the Dissemination of Fear (pp. 129-152). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Agbarya, A., & John, N. (2021). Online tie and content management and changing religious identity among Muslim Arab women in Israel. Information, Communication & Society, 1-16.
John, N., & Agbarya, A. (2021). Punching up or turning away? Palestinians unfriending Jewish Israelis on Facebook. New Media & Society, 23(5), 1063-1079.
Lewis, N., Martinez, L. S., Agbarya, A., & Piatok-Vaisman, T. (2016). Examining patterns and motivations for drug-related information seeking and scanning behavior: A cross-national comparison of American and Israeli college students. Communication Quarterly, 64(2), 145-172
Awards and Prizes
PhD Endowment Grant of The Smart institute, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2021.
Tamkeen initiative, for The relationship between the Palestinian researcher and research participants at home: a double look (in Arabic). 2020
Mada al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied Social Studies, Haifa. 2019.
Olga Pasitselska is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation project, supervised by Prof. Christian Baden and supported by the Ariane de Rothschild Women Doctoral Program, is focused on social negotiation of mediated propagandistic narratives during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The study aims to understand how socially interactive audiences adopt and reject, interpret, and renegotiate conflicting media narratives in the contaminated information environment. The study contributes to understanding of public opinion formation and audiences’ perceptions of the media, the conflict, and the political processes during the violent political conflict.
Olga’s research interests include ideological discourse research, discursive construction of consensus and dissent, reception of dis- and misinformation, media use and media avoidance by the socially interactive and active audiences.
Education
March 2018 – present – PhD Candidate, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis: Reception of ideological narratives in Russian-Ukrainian conflict: the role of identity Advisor: Prof. Christian Baden
October 2014 – July 2017 – MSc, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Specialty: Political Communication. Diploma Magna Cum Laude
Master’s thesis (article): “Ukrainian discourse through the lens of Russian media: Construction of ideological discourse” Supervisor: Prof. Zohar Kampf
September 2009 – June 2013 – B. A., Oles’ Honchar Dnipro National University
Specialty: Editing and Publishing, Ukrainian and Russian linguistics. Diploma Magna Cum Laude
Publications
Pasitselska O. & Baden C. (2020) Who are ‘the people’? Uses of empty signifiers in propagandistic news discourse. Journal of Language and Politics, 19(4): 666-690.
Pasitselska O. (2017). Ukrainian crisis through the lens of Russian media: Construction of ideological discourse. Discourse & Communication, 11(6): 591–609.
Peer-reviewed conference presentations
Better ask your neighbor: Audience’s sense-making strategies in a conflicting information environment. Paper to be presented at the 8th European Communication Conference to be held in Braga, October 2021.
Propaganda literacy: How Ukrainian audiences renegotiate propagandistic messages in the times of conflict? Presented at the “Discourse and Communication as Propaganda” conference [online], Brussels, Belgium, September 2020.
People, nation, land: Uses of empty signifiers in propagandistic conflict news narratives. Presented at the 7th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Lugano, Switzerland, November 2018.
Presentations & Workshops
Better ask your neighbor: Audience’s sense-making strategies in conflicting information environment. Presented at the Mainz-Jerusalem Mini Conference of the Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 2020.
Logics of exclusion: How Ukrainian audiences renegotiate propagandistic messages in times of conflict? Research Workshop, conducted as a part of the Seminar Series Political Communication in Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe. [online] University of Passau, Germany, November 2020.
Honors & Awards
March 2019 – 2022 – Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship for outstanding female doctoral students.
October 2019– October 2020 – Hans Guth Dreyfus Fellowship for research on conflict management and resolution.
January 2019 – The Faculty of Social Sciences travel grant for fieldwork research.
December 2018 – May 2019 – The Department of Communication and Journalism scholarship for research students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
August 2018 – Erasmus+ grant for participation in Radboud Summer School, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
April 2018 – Wain Doctoral Student Scholarship for Communication, Media and Conflict Research.
March 2018 – August 2018 – The Department of Communication and Journalism scholarship for research students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
September 2009 – June 2013 – Increased State Scholarship, Oles’ Honchar Dnipro National University.
Teaching experience
Spring 2020 – Political communication BA, Teaching Assistant
Autumn 2019 – Statistics for communication students BA, Teaching Assistant
Research skills
Qualitative research methods: Serial focus group and interview methodology, Discourse and narrative analysis (Atlas), Content analysis of political and cultural texts (Atlas), Grounded Theory;
Quantitative research methods (using SPSS and LexisNexis): Experimental research design, Quantitative content analysis, Surveys;
Conversational analysis, linguistic analysis;
Literary criticism.
Community service & Extracurricular activities
2020 – present – member of the Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral Student Program Steering Committee
2020 – present – reviewer for International Communication Association Annual Conference, Political Communication Division
2017 – present – participant in the “Discourse Forum” research group leaded by Prof. Zohar Kampf
May 2019 – September 2019 – tutor at “Kehilat lomdim” - the academic guidance program of the Unit for Equal Opportunities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
June 2018 – student assistant at The Board of Governors event, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In my dissertation project I aim to develop a comprehensive conceptualization of (dis)trust in the current media ecology. To this end, I seek to account for multiple news trustworthiness dimensions, as well as the trust attitudes of various actors who participate in the creation and interpretation of the news.
I hold a Master’s degree in communication, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Communication, both from the Hebrew University. My MA thesis, written under the guidance of Prof. Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, explored the various aspects of suspicion and distrust in the perceptions of journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Aharoni, T., Kligler-Vilenchik, N, and Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2020). “Be Less of a Slave to the News”: A Texto-Material Perspective on News Avoidance among Young Adults. Journalism studies. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1852885.
Aharoni, T. (2019). When High and Pop Culture (Re)Mix: An Inquiry into the Memetic Transformations of Artwork. New Media & Society. doi.org/10.1177/1461444819845917.
Aharoni, T., and Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2019). Unpacking Journalists’ (Dis)Trust: Expressions of Suspicion in the Narratives of Journalists Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. International Journal of Press/ Politics. doi.org/10.1177/1940161219841902.
Awards and Prizes
2020-2024: The President’s Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020: Most Engaging Visuals Video award, Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) (With Eedan Amit-Danhi)
2017-2020: Honored for excellence in teaching, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2018: Rector’s Award for outstanding excellence, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2018: Top Student Paper award, Visual Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA)
2018: Scholarship for M.A. thesis research, The Walter-Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education, Faculty of social-sciences, Tel-Aviv University.
2016-2019: Dean’s award for outstanding excellence, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I have a master’s degree in Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics and a bachelor’s degree in Romance Languages, both from the Hebrew University. My MA dissertation explored how Hebrew speakers respond to compliments and the role of compliments in the socio-pragmatics of Hebrew.
Areas of interest: Language and Society, Socio-Pragmatics and Political Discourse.
PhD Dissertation: Flattery: The Dark Side of Sociability
Important achievements
2018 - The Presidents scholarship for outstanding PhD students.
2017-2018 - The Communication Department at the Hebrew University Scholarship for doctoral students.
2014-2015: full MA scholarship from Mandel School for Educational Leadership.
2014 - Rector award for MA students.
2012 - Dean award for BA students.
Publications
Journals
Kampf, Z., & Danziger, R. (forthcoming 2021). Interpretive constructs in contrast: The case of flattery in Hebrew and in Palestinian Arabic. Contrastive Pragmatics.
Danziger, R. (2020). The pragmatics of flattery: The strategic use of solidarity-oriented actions. Journal of Pragmatics, 170, 413-425.
Kampf Z, Chudy D, Danziger R, Schreiber M. (2020). “Wait With Falling in Love”: Discursive Evaluation of Amicable Messages Conveyed by Opponents. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. doi:10.1177/0261927X20944977
Kampf, Z., Aldar, L., Danziger, R., & Schreiber, M. (2019). The pragmatics of amicable interstate communication. Intercultural Pragmatics, 16(2), 123-151.
Kampf, Z., & Danziger, R. (2019). ‘You dribble faster than Messi and jump higher than Jordan’: The art of complimenting and praising in political discourse. Journal of Politeness Research, 15(1), 1-23.
Danziger, R. (2018). Compliments and compliment responses in Israeli Hebrew: Hebrew university in Jerusalem students in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 124, 73-87.
Chapter in collection
Danziger, R., & Kampf, Z. (2020). Diplomatic compliments and praise on Twitter. Complimenting Behavior and (Self-) Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights, 313, 165.
Extras
Teaching Appointments
2020 - Teaching assistant in “Linguistic Communication” at the department of Communications and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2019 –Teaching assistant in “Advanced Methods of Textual Analysis” at the department of Communications and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013-2015: Teaching assistant in “Introduction to Linguistics” at the Language School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2012-2015: Teaching and research assistant for Dr. Aldina Quintana-Rodriguez of the department of Romance and Latin American Studies.
Academic Activity
2020 – present: Research assistant – Prof. Zohar Kampf and Dr. Gadi Heimann, “What so special about 'special relationships'? The Meaning of Friendship in IR”
2017- Present: Forum coordinator, Discourse Analysis group, the faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Directors: Dr. Zohar Kampf and Dr. Michal Hamo)
2017 - 2020: Research assistant – Prof. Zohar Kampf, “Performing Peace: Understanding the Conditions for Achieving the (Re)conciliatory Consequences of Discursive Actions".
2017: Research assistant – Dr. Christian Baden and Dr. Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, “The Future of Catalonia”.
I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My dissertation project focuses on the cultural logic of podcast listening. It explores how and why people listen to podcasts, how podcast creators construct their listening subjects and which actors and technologies participate in the datafication of podcast listening, placing them within a wider context of the attention economy.
I hold a Master’s degree in communication and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Communication, both from the Hebrew University. In my Master’s dissertation I developed the concept of ‘networked anonymity’ that offers a new way of understanding anonymity in the age of real-name social media. My fields of interest include: philosophy and theory of media and communication, history of media technologies, digital culture and digital research methods. Outside the academic world, I have worked as a technology journalist and a digital copywriter, both driven by my fascination with ways in which people interact with technologies.
Besides working on my dissertation, I produce the Smart Institute’s podcast, The SIP.
Research Interests
Podcast studies
Philosophy and theory of media and communication
Digital culture
Selected Publications
Baden, C., & Sharon, T. (2021). Blinded by the lies? Toward an integrated definition of conspiracy theories. Communication Theory, 31(1), 82-106.
Sharon, T., & John, N. A. (2019). Imagining an Ideal Podcast Listener [Special issue]. Popular Communication 17(4), 333-347
Sharon, T., & John, N. A. (2018). Unpacking (the) Secret: Anonymous social media and the impossibility of networked anonymity. New Media & Society 20(11): 4177–4194.
Awards and Prizes
2019-2023: The President’s Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019: Smart Institute scholarship for PhD Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019: The Blum-Kulka excellence research award, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019: Student Travel grant, International Communication Association (ICA)
2019: Travel grant, Political Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA)
2018-2019: Honored for excellence in teaching, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2018: The Department of Communication and Journalism scholarship for outstanding doctoral students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2018: Erasmus+ grant, European Union graduate student exchange programme
2018: Travel grant, Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA)
2018: Travel grant, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2018: Gilbert scholarship, given to academic sponsors at the Equal Opportunity Unit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017: The Department of Communication and Journalism scholarship for outstanding doctoral students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2015: The Department of Communication and Journalism scholarship for M.A. thesis research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2014–2015: Honored for excellence in teaching, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012–2013: Dean's award for outstanding achievements, Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
I hold a B.A. in Hebrew literature and an M.A. in communication and journalism, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Alongside academic work, I'm a poet and editor. I published an original poetry book (2017) and edited several books and poetry anthologies (2011, 2014).
My dissertation is titled "The Mediatization of Literature in the Age of Media". The dissertation focuses on the changes in the field of literature caused by the development of the digital era. The research describes these changes through the theoretical concept of mediatization, which deals with meta-process and profound influences of the media. The research examines these changes from four standpoints: creators, production and marketing process, the audience feedback, and the literary establishment.
Research Interests
New Media Poetics
Mediatization
Digital Culture
Literature
Social Media
Selected Publication
Noa Shakargy (2021). Internetica: Poetry in the Digital Age, The Bialik Institute, Jerusalem. [Forthcoming]
Sandra Simonsen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her areas of interests include Journalism, political communication, framing theory, discourse analysis, war, social identity and group conflict including inclusion and exclusion and how that manifest in language. Her doctoral research focuses on migration frames in national media environments and socio economic conditions related to migration in Sweden and Denmark.
Sandra Simonsen completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2012. She explored the life-affirming dimension of Nietzsche’s philosophy in her BA thesis by analyzing the concepts “the Superhuman”, “Will to Power” and “the Eternal Recurrence”. In 2015, she completed her Master’s Degree in Journalism from Aarhus University and the Danish School of Media and Journalism. Her thesis examined war legitimation in political communication.
Currently, Sandra is a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University where she is a part of a research group in the Center for Cultural Sociology.
Publications
Zelinsky, D., Smith, P. and Simonsen, S. Forthcoming. From Remarque to Rubbish: A Model of Literary Degradation.
Sandra, S. Forthcoming. Collective identity as a cultural explanation for crisis response: The 2015 Migration and Refugee Crisis and the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Sweden as Cases.
Simonsen, S. 2020. Pigs, Bacteria and Garbage: Metaphors in Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Propaganda. Journal of Language and Politics 19(6). DOI:10.1075/jlp.19109.sim
Simonsen, S. 2019. Discursive Legitimation Strategies: The Evolving Legitimation of War in Israeli Public Diplomacy. Discourse & Society 30(5). DOI:10.1177/0957926519855786
Previous work
2015: Communications and project officer in Al-Razi. (Palestinian NGO located in Al-Ram, Jerusalem)
2014: Communications officer in the Danish House in Palestine. (Danish NGO located in Ramallah)
2013: Communications and Press officer at Radikale Venstre (Danish political party then in government
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My doctoral dissertation offers critical examination of different ways in which commercial brands and media corporations appropriate and adapt user-generated ‘amateur’ or ‘vernacular’ aesthetics.
In addition to being fascinated with the corporate use of amateur visual patterns and the different ways in which these phenomenon are important to our understanding of contemporary consumer society and digital culture, I am also a mother of two living in Herzliya, and a creative director at an Israeli public relations firm.
Much like Keith Negus’ illuminating research on the music industry – which started with his own experience as a young, aspiring musician dealing with the uncertainties of a frantic (somewhat chaotic) field, or the work of Laura Grindstaff as an intern on the set of televised talk shows that lead to her investigation of the prime time moments in which guests lose control and expose raw feelings ("The Money Shot"), in my case too work and academic interests continually intersect and influence each other. I find that working with and for commercial companies often serves as inspirational source for future research, and a useful tool in understanding the ‘behind the scenes’ insights of an industry ever on the search for the next big thing.
Research Interests
Commercial Appropriation
Fashion and advertising
Stock photography
Amateur and vernacular visual patterns
User generated-content
Digital culture
Social media
Consumer culture
Selected Publications and Presentation
Simatzkin-Ohana, L. and Frosh, P. (2022) Corporate appropriations of vernacular images on Instagram: from User Generated Content to a User Generated Aesthetic. 9th European Communication Conference. Denmark (2022).
Simatzkin-Ohana, L. (2022). When Vernacular Style becomes a Corporate Strategy: Who is the 'Self' in Stock- photography Selfies? Visualizing What’s Social Pre-conference 72nd Annual ICA Conference, Paris (2022)
Simatzkin-Ohana, L. and Frosh, P. (2022) From user-generated content to a user-generated aesthetic: Instagram, corporate vernacularization, and the intimate life of brands. Media, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1177/01634437221084107
Simatzkin-Ohana, L. (2022). When Selfie Culture Meets Commercial Stock Photography: Who is the "Self" in Stock Photography Selfies? Paper presented at Photomedia Conference, Aalto University, Helsinki (2022)
Simatzkin-Ohana, L. and Frosh P. (2021) User-Generated Aesthetic: The Style of Corporate Authenticity. Paper presented at Cultures of Authenticity virtual symposium hosted by Loughborough University
Simatzkin-Ohana, L. and Frosh P. From User-generated Content to a User-generated Aesthetic: Instagram, Brands, and the Appropriation of Digital Photography (2020). AoIR 2020 virtual conference
Awards and Prizes
2020: The Smart Doctoral Student Award for Excellence, granted by Mary Smart and the Smart Family Institute of Communications
2017: Outstanding Student Paper, Israel Communication Association, Yuval Shahal Memorial Prize
2016-2021: Scholarship for Doctoral Students, granted by the Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2010: Award for Excellence, Department of History and Theory, The Jacob Bar-Gera Award granted by Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem
