I joined the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Program in Cultural Studies in 2020, after returning from a post-doctoral stay at the The Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) of the Bauhaus-University, Weimar Germany. I completed my doctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2018.
I study the relations between media technologies and culture, concentrating on the role that technical apparatuses play in shaping the conditions for a range of social phenomena in traditional media as well as contemporary digital culture. Combining cultural critique with historical and theoretical analysis, I explore how language and media influence ideological, political, economic and cultural processes such as the construction of linguistic and national identity.
Research Intersts
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Language, technology, and society
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Algorithmic culture and machine learning
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Media spaces – museums, archives libraries
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Human-machine interaction
Selected Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
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Ramati. (2014). “Between Israel and Germany: Therapeutic Return to the Place of Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema,” New German Critique 41(3), 123: 179–197.
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Ramati and A. Pinchevski. (2017). “Uniform Multilingualism: A Media Genealogy of Google Translate,” New Media & Society 20(7): 2550–2565.
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Ramati. (2019). “The Orientalized Phonograph: The Mechanical Recording of Oral Jewish Tradition,” Cultural Critique 102: 61-89.
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Ramati. (2020). “Media in the Dissemination of Land-of-Israel Songs,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 31: Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures (theme issue), 137-151.
- Ramati. (2021). Aleph-bet, dits-and-dahs, zeros and ones: representing Hebrew in character code. Internet Histories, 1-18.
- Ramati. (2021). Thumbs up and down: The cultural technique of thumb-typing. Convergence, 13548565211047165.
Book Chapters
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Ramati. (2015). “Walk on Water: Returning to Germany as Cultural Healing,” in: Cinematic Home-comings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema, ed. Rebecca Prime. London: Continuum. pp. 209–226.
Other Publications
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Ramati. (2008). “Eretz Moledet: An Analysis of the Second Aliyah Myth in the TV Series,” Slil: An Online Journal for History, Cinema and Television 1: 10-25 (in Hebrew). Available at: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/units.php?cat=2927
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Ramati. (2011). “Images in Transformation: Representations of Germany and Germans in Contemporary Israeli Fiction Cinema,” Working Papers Series, European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010-11), 40 pp.
Available at: http://www.ef.huji.ac.il/publications/working.shtml
Awards and Prizes
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2021 Golda Meir Fellowship Award
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The Smart Institute research grant.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, Minerva Stiftung.
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The Hebrew University President’s Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students.
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The Smart Family Institute of Communications Research Grant.