University of Haifa

    Doctoral Graduates

    Dr. Matan Aharoni

    Email: matana007@gmail.com

    Dissertation Title: "It's not cinema, it's a social gathering": On communal and social boundaries in Haredi leisure culture

    Supervisors: Prof. Tamar Katriel

    Graduation year: November, 2015

    Dr. Nugit Altschuler

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    Dr. Gonen Dori-Hacohen

    Email: gonen@comm.umass.edu

    Dissertation Title: Citizens talk about public affairs: Description of the political phone programs on Israeli Public Radio

    Supervisors: Prof. Tamar Katriel, Prof. Yael Maschler

    Graduation year: November, 2009

    Dr. Michal Hershman Shitrit

    Email: limi1@bezeqint.net

    Dissertation Title: Why do they do it? World perception and personality traits as predictors of reality show participation

    Supervisors: Prof. Jonathan Cohen

    Graduation year: February, 2014

    Dr. Avi Marciano

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    Personal website: avimarciano.com

    Email: avimarci (at) bgu (dot) ac.il

    Dissertation title:  Analyzing Press, Social Media, and State Discourses around the Israeli Biometric Project: Securitization, Resistance, and the Politics of Standardization

    Supervisor: Dr. Rivka Ribak

    Graduation year: August 2016

     

    Dr. Tamar Lazar

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    Email: Tamar@tamarlazar.co.il

    Dissertation Title: The organizational discourse surrounding workers' unionization efforts in Israel 2012-2014.

    Advisors: Prof. Rivka Ribak and Dr. Roei Davidson.

    Tamar is an Organizational Communication scholar. Her Doctoral work focuses on the organizational discourse surrounding new workers' unionizations, in Israeli business corporations – a significantly emerging trend in recent years. She closely follows the ways in which workers utilize mobile social media in their efforts to form their representative union.

    In her research, Tamar explores the sociomaterial implications of leveraging communication technologies for both organizational resistance and activism in general. She examines aspects such as mobile social media affordances and participant structures, workers' self-presentation and collective voice, and contemporary employment relations discourse.

     

    Dr. Dana Markowitz-Alfasi

    Email: dana204@gmail.com

    Dissertation Title: Looking good: Physical attractiveness as a predictor of news coverage of politicians

    Supervisors: Prof. Yariv Tsfati

    Graduation year: February, 2016

    Dr. Germaw Mengistu

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    Email: mgermaw@gmail.com

    Dissertation Title: From dispersion to nationhood: The social construction of national identity via discourse concerning the diaspora and immigration in the Israeli press

    Supervisors: Prof. Eli Avraham

    Graduation year: February, 2016

    Dr. Yaffa Shir Raz

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    Email: yaffas@netvision.net.il

    Dissertation Title: Unhealthy (public) relations? On public relation's role in the construction of media coverage of drugs and medical technologies and treatments in Israeli daily newspapers and web-sites

    Supervisors: Prof. Eli Avraham

    Graduation year: January, 2014

    Dr. Oshrat Sassoni Bar Lev

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    Dr. Vlad Vasiliu

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    Email: vladv@yvc.ac.il

    Dissertation Title: Digital Culture Industry: An Examination of Application Production (Supervisors: Dr. Rivka Ribak and Dr. Roei Davidson)

    The Dissertation deals with application developers in Israel, as producers of cultural content. This will be conducted by focusing on the developer's corporate culture, work environment, working practices in the field, the way in which the developers perceive the users and the product, and the developer's background characteristics. 

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