Doctoral Students

Email: netazi@openu.ac.il

Dissertation Title: Children and the Internet – Discourse of Risks:  The Significance of Institutional Definitions of Risks (Supervisor: Dr. Rivka Ribak)

Neta studies discourse that has to do with children and the internet, specifically with reference to various institutions. Her Doctoral work has to do with the discourse of risk as it is revealed in the definition of risks as pertaining to children by various institutional stakeholders  (which include governmental institutions, non-governmental organizations and commercial companies) , and how each of them proposes to deal with these risks. Special attention is paid to the discourse of management of risks as is revealed in the the cooperation between these stakeholders.

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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.

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