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Dr. Dmitri Epstein (Cornell Law School) will discuss his work on online civic participation on 29.12.13. He will lecture in the Communication Technologies seminar, 14:15, Rabin 5004.
A research seminar on "Partisan Selective Exposure and Political Polarization" organized by Prof. Yariv Tsfati (Department of Communication, University of Haifa) and Dr. Shira Dvir-Gvirsman (School of Communication, Netanya Academic College) will take place on the March 11th 2014. The seminar is sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.
An international workshop on Media Psychology funded by the Israel Science Foundation opened with a keynote lecture given by Prof. Elihu Katz. The workshop is co-organized by Dr. Nurit Tal-Or and Prof. Jonathan Cohen. Prof. Katz discussed "Five concepts in need of retirement".
Prof. Al Gunther from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discussed his pathbreaking work on the Hostile Media Effect and his current research dilemmas in this area. This discussion took place at the department's Media Psychology research group. Prof. Gunther is visiting the department as a Fulbright scholar.
On June 2nd, the Department of Communication will bid farewell to Prof. Sondra Rubinstein upon her retirement. Prof. Rubinstein taught for over 10 years at the department. The event will take place in room 4026 (Terrace building) at 12:15.
Ilana Gershon, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington will be the keynote speaker at the 'Metaksherim' ('Communicating') conference. 'Metaksherim' is an annual communication graduate student conference organized by students and staff of the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa. It is held for the 11th time in memory of our graduate student Mark Biano. Prof. Gershon will give an additional talk at the departmental seminar (see full program in Hebrew).
Metaksherim Graduate Student Conference, December 21, 11:15, Rabin Observatory
Hiring 2.0: Career Opportunities are the Ones that Never Knock
What do you need to do to get a U.S. job in this digital age? Do you need a LinkedIn profile? Are hiring managers looking for your personal brand? Job-seekers in post-recession America struggle with these questions as hiring and the nature of work changes. In this talk, I analyze the advice job-seekers receive about how to craft a genre repertoire – an agglomeration of a business card, resume, cover letter, interview questions, Twitter presence and LinkedIn profile. I then discuss what role this genre repertoire plays in actual hiring practices.
Department of Communication Faculty Seminar, December 23, 12:15, room TBA
I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man: Hiring a Neoliberal Self
Under contemporary U.S. capitalism, white collar workers increasingly view themselves as a business: they are the "CEO of me." In this perspective, hiring resembles a business-to-business contract, a short-term connection centered upon solving market-specific problems. This has not been an easy transition for many Americans looking for jobs. The social dilemmas present in U.S. job markets reveal many problems in enacting the self-as-business model, which are especially prominent when using new media that are designed presupposing the self-as-business model. My talk draws on a year of fieldwork in California's Bay Area on how new technologies contribute to a challenge so many Americans face these days - getting a job in the digital age.
In late July, Ph.D. student Haim Hagay led an Atlas.ti workshop. Atlas.ti supports computerized analysis of qualitative data. The workshop was attended by doctoral students and faculty members from the Department of Sociology and the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa. The workshop included an introductory lecture as well as hands-on instruction in managing an Atlas.ti project, coding data, building complex queries and working on group projects.
Metaksherim -- The annual communication graduate student conference in memory of Mark Biano
University of Haifa, Hanukah, 1.12.2013 (Poster, Abstracts - mostly in Hebrew; FB event)
Keynote speaker: Prof. Lance Holbert (University of South Carolina)
The conference enables communication research students to present their research. Our objective is to establish a social network of young scholars that could take an active part in communication research in Israel. The papers presented showcase a wide range of communication-related topics which emphasize diverse theories and methodologies. The conference is dedicated to the memory of Mark Biano, an outstanding student, loved teaching assistant and a reporter of “Hadashot Haifa Bakvalim”. Mark was murdered in a terror attack at Maxim restaurant in October, 2002, together with his wife, Naomi.
The Religion, peace and media coverage conference took place on 7-8 of November, 2013 (full program, PDF). The conference was co-organized by the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa and the International Christian Committee in Israel - Nazareth. It was held at the Golden Crown Hotel in Nazareth.