Academic Staff
Department Chair
Prof. Oren Meyers
Research Interests: Journalistic values and practices, collective memory, popular culture
Tel: 04-824-9212 | Direct 53212
Room: Rabin Complex 8044
Prof. Eli Avraham
Research Interests: Public Relations and Marketing Strategies, Marketing Places, Media representation of Minorities, Advertising and Society, Crisis communication Journalism and News Production.
Email: eavraham@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-824-9152 | Direct: 53152
Room: Rabin Complex 8046
Prof. Ouzi Elyada
Research Interests: French Popular Media History:18th-20th Century; Israeli Popular and Elite Media History:19th-20th Century; Cultural and Communication History of the French Revolution; French Historiography and Intellectual approaches: 18th-20th Century.
Email: ouzi@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-824-9599 | Direct: 53599
Room: Rabin Complex 8030
Dr. Roei Davidson
Research Interests: Economic Communication, Technology and Society, Culture Industries
E-mail: roei@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-828-8512
Room: Rabin Complex 8031
Prof. Nurit Tal-Or
Research Interests: Psychology of the media, interpersonal communication
Email: ntalor@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-824-9601
Room: Rabin Complex 8033
Prof. Jonathan Cohen
Research Interests: The study of media effects, political campaigns, persuasion and influence, media and public opinion, modern terrorism and the mass media.
Tel: 04-824-96598
Tel: 04-824-96598
E-mail: weimann@soc.haifa.ac.il
Room: Rabin Complex 8032
Dr. Oren Livio
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Communication and Space, Communication and Protest, Nationalism, Citizenship and Militarism.
Email: olivio@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-828-073
Room: Rabin Complex 8049
Dr. Nehama Lewis-Persky
Research Interests: Health communication, persuasion, message effects, campaigns.
Email: nlewis@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-8249283
Room: Rabin Complex 8032
Prof. Yariv Tsfati
Research Interests: political communication, audience trust in the media, media effects, third person effect.
Email: ytsfati@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-824-0012
Room: Rabin Complex 8035
Dr. Rivka Ribak
Research Interests: Cultural mediation of communication technologies and texts; construction of political and gender identities through the media; domestication of technologies in cultural contexts; privacy and other technological threats from an intercultural perspective; feminist, developmental theory; media education.
Email: rribak@com.haifa.ac.il
Tel: 04-824-960
Room: Rabin Complex 8031
Dr. Sharon Ringel
Research Interests:Collective Memory and Historiography, Digital Humanities, Actor-Network Theory, Holocaust Studies and Nazisms
Email: sringel@com.haifa.ac.il
Prof. (Emeritus) Gabriel Weimann
Research Interests: Mass media effects, public opinion, modern terrorism, political and commercial campaigns, mass media in Israel, social media, modern communication and cultivation theory, violence in the media and its effects
Prof. (Emerita) Tamar Katriel
Research Interests: Ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, communication and activism, anthropological approaches to media studies, rhetoric of public discourse in Israel.
Tel: 04-824-9143
E-mail: tamark@edu.haifa.ac.il
Room: Rabin Complex 8037
Nettanel Slyomovics
Research Interests:
Journalistic Writing and Editing; Investigative Reporting.
Dr. Alon Zoizner
Research Interests:
Political communication, social media, news coverage in the digital era and its effects, computational content analysis.