Our research and teaching focus on the opportunities enabled to individuals and communities through the utilization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their attempt to realize their freedoms and promote their wellbeing.

In particular, we focus on marginalized populations on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, migration, health, and life circumstances, examining various communication technologies and platforms. For example, some of our recent studies include the representations of Palestinian-Israelis in broadcast news, the utilization of ICTs by individuals leaving Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy, and the digital solicitation of organ donations on social media.

The three questions leading us are: (1) What should be our expectations from the media and ICTs in a fair society? (2) What can the media and ICTs enable individuals to do and be? (3) What are the media and ICTs currently enabling individuals and different communities to realize today?

Former team members

Prof. Dr. Yossi David (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Dr. Yael Bar-Tzedek (Bar Ilan Univeristy)

Isabella de Sousa Gonçalves M.A. (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)