Research Interests: Economic Communication, Technology and Society, Culture Industries
Tel.: 04-828-8512
E-mail: roei@com.haifa.ac.il
Room: Rabin Complex 9320
I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, Israel. I research how organizations and individuals use media technologies and their attendant rhetoric to promise and provide solutions for social problems. I also study mediated representations and understandings of economic life. I teach courses on the culture industries, media institutions, economic communication and content analysis methods.
You can find my Google Scholar profile with an updated list of publications here.
Selected Publications
Davidson, R. (2019). The Role of Platforms in Fulfilling the Potential of Crowdfunding as an Alternative Decentralized Arena for Cultural Financing. Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 13(1), 115-140. https://doi.org/10.1515/lehr-2019-0005
Davidson, R., & Poor, N. D. (2019). Location, location, location: How digital platforms reinforce the importance of spatial proximity. Information, Communication & Society. 22(10), 1464-1478. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1444075
Davidson, R., & Tsfati, Y. (2019). The contribution of supply and demand factors to the reproduction of hierarchies online: The case of crowdfunding of scientific research. Public Understanding of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662519876535
Tamir, E., & Davidson, R. (2019). The good despot: Technology firms’ interventions in the public sphere. Public Understanding of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662519879368
Tamir, E., & Davidson, R. (2019). INSPIRATION IN SURPRISING PLACES: SEARCHING FOR A CIVIC DIMENSION IN FINANCIAL LITERACY. British Journal of Educational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2019.1642444
Teaching
I teach courses on economic communication (mediated representations of economic life), culture industries, media institutions, content analysis, media and scandals, and qualitative research methods.