Renana Atia
Research Topic: Reducing Stereotypes by Exposure to Counter-Stereotypical Individuals: A Personalized Approach to Intergroup Interventions
Advisor: Prof. Meital Balmas, Prof. Eran Halperin
Doctoral Students
Yoel Botvinik
The processes of subject formation in the techno-digital reality
Advisor: Prof. Amit Pinchevski
Tom Divon
Memetic Participation: TikTok as a Platform for Playful Activism, Commemoration, and Trauma
Advisor: Prof. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartman
Tal Harel
Research Topic: Conflict within a conflict: External threat and intragroup fragmentation
Advisors: Prof. Ifat Maoz, Prof. Eran Halperin
Lital Henig
Research Topic: Composite memory: A memory work of the Holocaust in the digital age
Advisors: Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Prof. Amit Pinchevski
Tamar kleinhendler
Contaminated Talk: Uncivil Discourse and Moral Judgment in Facebook Talkbacks
Advisor: Prof. Lilach Nir
I am a PhD student at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My dissertation focuses on moral judgment and uncivil discourse on social media networks, aiming to better understand the emotional factors leading political polarization.
Sara Kopelman
The Time of the GIF:The Cultural Significance of Digital Looped Video
Advisor: Prof. Paul Frosh
Lior Krauz Cazelles
Representation of sisterhood in Israeli and Palestinian cinema (1980–2020)
Advisor: Prof. Raya Morag
Dganit Levy
Young people's use social media to express political opinions and engage in digital activism and the acquisition of digital media literacy skills
Advisor: Prof. Neta Kligler-Vilenchik
Caitlin Reynolds
Provocative Cameras: First Amendment Audits and the Right to Record in the United States
Advisor: Prof. Nicolas John
Rebecca Scharlach
The Constructions of Values in Social Media
Advisor: Prof. Limor Shifman
I am a PhD researcher in the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am originally from Germany, and I have a background in Media Studies. Since October 2019, I am part of an international ERC research project called “Digital Values”.
Hadas Schlussel
The social video - videos on social networks as interactive experiences that involve perceptions and senses
Advisor: Prof. Paul Frosh
Mia Schreiber
Mediated Intentions: journalists’ role in attributing and distributing political intentions
Advisor: Prof. Zohar Kampf
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Communication, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My Ph.D. research topic is “Mediated Intentions: journalists’ role in attributing and distributing political intentions”, Supervised by Prof. Zohar Kampf.