Email: ronitbloom@gmail.com

Dissertation Title: Effect of crisis event framing on psycho-social components (Supervisors: Prof Yariv Tzfati & Prof Gabriel Weimann)

My main interest is political communication, focusing on  framing effects on the public sphere. One objective of my research is to examine the effects of specific textual components in news, especially during crisis events, on psychological schemes such as hope, optimism, efficacy and resiliency. Another scope is to anderstand the effect of positive and frames on the perceived public climate regarding resilience, national-resilience and well-being.

Research Interests

Political Communication
Media Framing Effects
Public Sphere
Positive Psychology

Education

BA: Civil Engineering, Technion (cum laude)
MBA: Derby University (cum laude). MBA thesis: Internal resources – human capital, psychological capital and family support – as factor influencing small business success and survival (Supervisor: Arye Aviram)

Conference Presentations

Bloom, R. (2012). The effect of crisis event framing on psycho-social components. ICA political communication graduate student preconference, University of Arizona

Bloom, R (2011). Poster: Improving entrepreneurs survival by caltivating psychological capital and emotional support. Second worls congress on positive psychology.

Scholarships and Awards

2012: Zvulun Hammer scholarship by Rashut2, for promoting research in communication (2012)
2011: Scholarship from the Center of Training and Research of Trauma Coping, Sapir Academic Collage, for research on resilience and coping in ongoing threat