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    University of Haifa

    8 members of the department community will present their work at AoIR in Berlin

    The Department of Communication will have a significant presence this year at the AoIR (Association for Internet Researchers) annual 2016 meeting in Berlin. AoIR is a leading association for scholars studying the internet and other digital environments.  Among the participants will be four current graduate students, one recent PhD graduate and three faculty members. Five members of the department will participate in a panel titled "Standards rule? Regulations, literacies and algorithms in times of transition" and organized by Dr. Rivka Ribak. The panel will investigate the role of standards in various digital arenas including Facebook applications (Hagar Bohbot & Rivka Ribak), Crowdfunding (Roei Davidson), Biometrics and digital archives (Avi Marciano & Sharon Ringel), and Media literacy (Neta Ziskind). Prof. Joe Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania will serve as the panel's respondent. In a separate presentation, Masters student Anat Leshnick and Dr. Oren Livio will discuss "The discourse of Hebrew Wikipedia deletion pages". Recent PhD graduate, Avi Marciano, will discuss his work on biometric surveillance in an additional panel.