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Prof. Motti Neiger, Ph.D.

Dean, School of Communication, Netanya Academic College (ISRAEL)

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

1. Personal Details

Work Address:

School of Communication, Netanya Academic College, 1 University Street,

Netanya, Israel, 4223587

Office Telephone Number: +972-9-8607811

e-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.mottineiger.com

2. Higher Education

A. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies

Period of

Study

Name of Institution

and Department

Degree Year of

Approval

1992-1995 Hebrew University, Communication and Journalism Department, and the Hebrew Literature Department

B.A. (cum laude) 1995

1995-1997 Hebrew University, Communication and Journalism Department, and the Hebrew Literature Department

M.A. studies (direct doctorate program)

1997

1997-2000 Hebrew University, Communication and Journalism Dep. and the Hebrew Literature Dep. Supervisors: Yitzhak Roeh (Dep. of Communication and Journalism) and Ruth Karton-Bloom (Dep. of Hebrew Literature)

Ph.D. - Dissertation: The Literary Supplements and the Shaping of Israeli Culture – The Literary Supplements in the Israeli Press (1948-1995) and their role in Israel's Culture, Society, Press and Literature.

2000

B. Post-Doctoral Studies

Period of

Study

Name of Institution,

Department and host

Research area

2000-2001 Ben-Gurion University, Post Doctorate, Research:

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.mottineiger.com/

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Heksherim center for Israeli & Jewish culture, Prof. Yigal Schwartz

“The History and Cultural Role of the Hebrew Publishing Industry".

3. Academic Ranks and Positions in Institutes of Higher Education

A. Ranks and Tenure in Netanya Academic College

Dates Name of Institution and

Department

Rank/Position

2001-2006 Netanya Academic College, School of Communication

Lecturer

2006-2013 Netanya Academic College, School of Communication

Senior Lecturer

2013- Netanya Academic College, School of Communication

Associate Professor

B. Ranks and Positions in other Institutes of Higher Education

Dates Name of Institution and

Department

Rank/Position

2000-2001 Sapir College Lecturer, School of Communication 2001-2004 Ben-Gurion U. Adjunct Lecturer, Hebrew Literature

Department (graduate program, M.A.). 2002-2006 Hebrew University Adjunct Lecturer, School of Library,

Archive and Information Studies (graduate program, M.A.).

2000-2008 Hebrew University Adjunct Lecturer, Communication and Journalism department

2002-2008 Ben-Gurion U. Research fellow, “Heksherim”, the research center for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture

2008-2009 U. Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Visiting scholar, department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies

2009-2011 U. Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Visiting scholar (Colabrorador Honorifico), department of Media History.

2013- Hebrew University Adjunct Professor, Communication and Journalism department

4. Offices in Academic Administration at Netanya Academic Collage (NAC)

Dates Offices in Academic Administration

2001- Member of the curriculum committee, School of Communication

2002- Conferences and panels coordinator

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2006-2008 Students' Affairs Coordinator – School of Communication

2013-2015 Member of the Steering Committee, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue

2013- Dean, School of Communication

2013- Member of NAC Academic Council

2015- Member of NAC Center for Instructional Development

5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the Institution

Dates Scholarly Positions and Activities

2000- Ad-hoc Reviewer for international conferences and prizes (e.g., the International Communication Association annual conference and its best dissertation award).

2002- Ad-hoc Reviewer for international journals (among others):

Journal of Communication;

The International Journal of Press/Politics;

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism;

Communication, Culture & Critique;

Journal of Children and Media;

Communication Theory;

Critical Studies in Media Communication;

The International Journal of Communication;

New Media & Society;

Television & New Media;

Memory Studies

Theory & Criticism (Heb.) etc.

2002- Interviewed numerous times for media outlets (TV, radio, newspapers, internet) regarding my fields of expertise and published columns on Israel's main news sites on the internet. For a selection of media appearances - click here

2005- Ad-hoc Reviewer for Research grants for the Israel Science Foundation and a member of its grants committee.

2007- Reviewer of PhD dissertations for the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa, Reviewer of MA thesis and MA thesis proposals for University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University.

2005- Editorial board member - "Kesher", A Journal for the study of Jewish press and media.

2006-2009 President of the Israel Communication Association (ISCA)

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2006-2007 Member of the Israel Science Foundation committee for evaluating research grants proposals in communication

2007 Founding editor of "Media Frames: Israeli Journal of

Communication" - The journal of the Israeli Communication Association

2006-2008 Participated, both as a member and as a lecturer, in peace and dialogue with Palestinians seminars, organized by Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam in Jordan and Turkey

2007-2008 Appeared before the Knesset (Israeli parliament) committees regarding media regulation

2008-2014 Member of the editorial board of "Media Frames: Israeli Journal of Communication" - The journal of the Israeli Communication Association

2011- Chair of the communication & society curriculum committee at

the Israeli Ministry of Education designing the new High-

Schools program (pro-bono: designing, writing and editing the new curriculum while training the teachers to implement it)

2011-2014

Member and academic advisor for the Israel Broadcasting Authority Ethics Committee.

2011-2013 The main formulator of the new amendments to the ethics code of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (NAKDI guide) allowing journalists to express personal opinions during broadcast (approved on Oct. 2013) 2014- Ad-hoc reviewer of book proposals for international academic publishers such as Palgrave-Macmillan and Routledge.

2015- Evaluating academic promotions for national and international universities (e.g., Carnegie Mellon University).

2015- Writing blurb for the volume “Memory in a Mediated World”, besides the blurbs of Prof. Anna Reading (King’s College, UK; the editor of Media, Culture & Society) and Prof. Barbie Zelizer (U. Penn; the editor of “Journalism”

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6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences

A. Participation in International Conferences

Date Name of

Conference

Place of

Conference

Subject of Lecture

1. 1999, May

Annual Conf. of The National Association of Professors of Hebrew

Mexico City, Mexico

The Literary Supplements in the Israeli Press – Trends and Processes.

2. 2000, May


Chicago, IL Zionist Narratives as a Two Edged Sword: The Lebanon war and Israeli press and poetry.

3. 2001, May

The International conference of the Association for Israel Studies

Washington, DC. Secular Dances around the Tribal Campfire: The Israeli Press and the Shaping of Culture.

4. 2001, Dec.

The International Congress for Jewish Studies

Hebrew U., Jerusalem

"The Secular Holy Scriptures: The Role of the Holyday Literary Supplements in the Israeli Press and Culture",

5. 2002, July

The International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR)

Barcelona, Spain Between Nation and Profession: Journalists during Violent Conflict (with Eyal Zandberg).

6. 2002, July


Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva

Mediating Culture – The Role of the Press, Publishers and Periodicals in culture.

7. 2004, May

The International Communication Association (ICA)

New Orleans Journalism, Patriotism and Professionalism at Times of Violent Conflict (with Eyal Zandberg).

8. 2004, June

The International Conference of the Association for Israel Studies.


The Death of the Editor? – The Rise of the New Mediators of Culture.

9. 2005, July

The 14th International

Congress for Jewish Studies,


Protest poetry, the Media and the Second Intifada (with Ayelet Kohn)

10. 2006, June


Dresden, Germany

News yet to Happen: Close reading in news-items referring to future events.

11. 2006, The International Dresden, A three-dimensional perspective

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June Communication Association (ICA)

Germany for cultural interpretation of protest performances (with Ayelet Kohn).

12. 2007, May


San Francisco Localizing Collective Memory: Local and National Radio Broadcasts on Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism, 1993-2004 (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

13. 2007, May


San Francisco Collective Memory and Commercial Media: Channel 2 broadcasts on Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zanberg)

14. 2007, June

Association for Israel Studies,

Open University, Raanana Israel

"Of All the Girls in the World: Reality Shows and Romantic Utopia Between the Global and the Local".

15. 2007, July

Cultural Studies Now

University of East London, London,

Collective Memory in the Age of Multi-Channel Commercial Media. (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

16. 2008, May

Association for Israel Studies (AIS)

NYU, New York Commercial Media on Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

17. 2008, May

Association for Israel Studies (AIS),

NYU, New York The Rhetoric of Criticism: Israeli Journalism during the Second Lebanon War (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

18. 2008, Nov.

ECREA (The 2nd European Communication Conference),

Barcelona, Spain

Journalistic Criticism during War and Conflict (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

19. 2009, May

Association for Israel Studies (AIS).

Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva

National Memory vs. Local Memory (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

20. 2009, May

Association for Israel Studies (AIS).

Ben-Gurion University Be'er Sheva

Structuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Making of Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and Heroism.

21. 2009, July

"On Media Memory" workshop

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Radio as a mnemonic site.

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22. 2010, April

"Representation now: The Sum of it All" conference

Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus.

Representations of Critique: Towards a Conceptualization of Journalistic Criticism (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

23. 2010, April

"Representation now: The Sum of it All" conference

Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus.

TV News, Representation, and Commemoration (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

24. 2010, Nov.

1st Conference of the Semiotics of Culture,

Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Fundación Ortega y Gasset

Non-Referential News: The Simulacrum of Journalism.

25. 2011, March

The World Association for Public Opinion Research (regional seminar)

Segovia, Spain Serving the enemy? - Conceptualizing "journalistic criticism" and the public opinion toward it during war and conflict.

26. 2011, May


Boston, MA. Tuned to the Nation's Mood: Popular Music as a Mnemonic Cultural Object. (with Oren Meyers

and Eyal Zandberg) - Top paper (1st. place) at the ICA interactive (posters) session.

27. 2011, May


Boston, MA. On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg)

28. 2011, May


Boston, MA. Structuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg)

29. 2011, May


Boston, MA. Communicating Critique: Towards a Conceptualization of Journalistic Criticism (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg)

30. 2011, May


Boston, MA. Past Continuous: Newsworthiness and the Shaping of Collective Memory (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg)

31. 2012, May


Phoenix, AZ. The future is present: The media as an agent of collective vision.

32. 2012, May


Phoenix, AZ. The soft side of hot nationalism? - Newspaper supplements during wartime.

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33. 2013, August

he World Union for Jewish Studies Congress,

The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Songs to remember: Music as mnemonic artifact.

34. 2013, Sep.

The Future of Journalism 2013 conference

Cardiff, UK. The future of journalism and the future (and past) in journalism (with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt).

35. 2013, Nov.

Discourse, Culture, and Education in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, The S. Daniel Abraham Centre for Strategic Dialogue and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Netanya, Academic College

"Fear or hope? - How the media shapes our perceptions regarding the future and solvability of political conflicts",

36. 2014, May


Seattle, WA When the Past is Present: Utilizing Memory in News Narratives. (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

37. 2014, May


Seattle, WA Print is Future, Online is Past: Cross-Media Analysis of Temporal Orientations in the News (with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt)

38. 2015, May


San Juan, Puerto Rico

Temporal Affordances in the News (with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt).

39. 2015, Sep.

Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel Studies

Cagliari, Italy Communication Awe: The Media and Holocaust Commemoration,

40. 2015, Jun.


Fukuoka, Japan Temporal Layers in News Narratives (with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt).

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B. Participation in National Conferences (Hebrew)

Date Name of

Conference

Place of

Conference

Subject of Lecture

1. 2001, Dec.

The 6th annual conference of the Israel Communication Association

Sapir College 2001, December - Days of Awe: The Praxis of News Coverage of violent Conflict (with Eyal Zandberg).

2. 2002, April

"Voice-Narrator" Conference

Tel-Aviv University

Voice of Solidarity and Competing Voices in the Israeli Press.

3. 2003, April


Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan.

Fantasy and Possibilities of Realities on the Media Discourse

4. 2003, June

The Annual Conference of the Association for Language and Society

Jerusalem.

New and The Worst Case Scenario Discourse

5. 2004, January

Journalism as Storytelling: Practice and Theory of the Media,

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2004, January - "Model for the Interpretations of Media Texts", Conference:.

6. 2004, Feb.

The 22nd Annual Conference of Librarian and Information Studies

Dan Hotel, Tel Aviv

"Who Decide What We Will Read?"

7. 2004, April


Netanya Academic College

Between the Nation and the Profession: Journalists as Members of Contradicting Communities (with Eyal Zandberg).

8. 2004, June

The secrets of Discourse: Media, Meanings, Utterances


The Future Discourse in the News

9. 2004, June


Beit Berel College

The Other as a Jew in Protest Poetry in the Israeli Press

10. 2004, Dec.

Media and Politics in Israel

Van Leer Institute

The Cultural Significance and Political import of Future Scenarios in the Press

11. 2005, The 9th annual Ben-Gurion News from the Future: News

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April conference of the Israel Communication Association

University, Beer-Sheva

reports on events yet to happen

12. 2005, April


Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva

Protest Performances on the Literary Supplements during Violent Conflicts (with Ayelet Kohn)

13. 2005, April



How Reality Shows Gain the Cooperation of the Audience (with Avishai Josman).

14. 2006, March

"We are all Others" Emek Izrael College

Trilling the Israeli Idol: Periphery and the Reality Shows

15. 2006, April



Talk-backs and on-line Newspapers (with Ayelet Kohn).

16. 2007, Feb.

The annual conference of the Israel Sociological Association

University of Haifa

Off All the Girls in the World: Utopia and Reality Shows

17. 2007, Feb.

Israel Internet Association Conference,

Airport-city conference center, Lod

The Rhetoric of Internet Talk-backs and on-line Newspapers

18. 2007, March


The Open University, Ra'anana

Prime-Time Commemoration: TV Broadcasts on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day (with Eyal Zandberg and Oren Meyers).

19. 2008, April


The College of Management, Tel-Aviv

The Rhetoric of Criticism (with Eyal Zandberg and Oren Meyers).

20. 2008, March

Fantasy and Reality: Representations of Past, Present and Future,

University of Haifa

The Fantastic Discourse of the Media

21. 2008, Feb.

The annual conference of the Israel Sociological Association

Tel-Aviv University

"Representations of journalistic Criticism"

22. 2010, May

The Radio in Israel Between Nationalism and Escapism

The Open University, Ra'anana.

- "Radio Broadcast during Holocaust Memorial Day", Conference: "", (with Eyal Zandberg and Oren Meyers).

23. 2010, March

Democracy in Crisis University of Haifa

"Mediated Criticism during Conflicts" (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

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24. 2010, April


Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

"Journalistic Professionalism and the Production of Holocaust Memorial Day Broadcasts". (with Eyal Zandberg and Oren Meyers).

25. 2012, March

Talking Peace-Making War: The Discourse of War and Peace

Truman Institute, The Hebrew University

"Nationalism and war representations in Israel's Newspaper Supplements during the Second Lebanon War on 2006 (with Karni Rimmer-Tsory).

26. 2012, April


Tel Aviv University.

The Israeli Idol Negotiates Meanings and Readings

27. 2013, Febr.


Oranim College - Did not happen and will not take place: News on events that haven't occurred.

28. 2013, March


Bar-Ilan University No news is good news? – What makes event that didn't took place a newsworthy?

29. 2013, April

Passages in the Media conference


Regimenting the agenda – An insider perspective from the Israel Broadcasting Authority Ethics Committee

30. 2013, Sep.

The annual conference of the Israeli Association for Applied Linguistics.

Beit Berel College

"When the media speaks prose: The language as the cornerstone of communication",

31. 2014, April



Language, discourse and the media: The linguistic construction of reality

32. 2014, April



The new curriculum for communication programs at high-schools: Directions and vision

33. 2015, May

On violence and tolerance

Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College

Polarizing the society: The media and the promotion of violence

C. Organization of Conferences or Sessions

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Date Name of

Conference

Place of

Conference

Role

1. 2004, April

Israel Conference Association annual conference

Netanya Academic College, Netanya

Member of the conference committee

2. 2005, April


Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva.


3. 2006, April




4. 2007, April


The College of Management, Tel-Aviv

Head of the conference committee

5. 2008, April


The Open University, Ra'anana

Head of the conference committee

6. 2009, April


Emek Izrael College Head of the conference committee

7. July, 2009

On Media Memory International Workshop (funded by ISF)

University of Haifa, Netanya Academic College and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Workshop co-organizer of the workshop (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg)

8. May, 2011

On Media Memory panel at the ICA conference

Boston, MA Panel co-organizer, chair and presenter.

9. August, 2013

Communicating Awe panel at The World Union for Jewish Studies Congress


Panel co-organizer, chair and presenter.

7. Invited Lectures and Talks

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A. Invited Academic Lectures and Colloquium Talks

Date Inviting institute Name of

Forum

Subject of Lecture

1. 2001, April

Ben-Gurion Uni., Communication Dep.

Department Colloquium

The Literary Supplements and the Israeli Culture

2. 2001, May

Hebrew Uni., Communication Dep.


The Secular Ritual of the Hebrew Literary Supplements and the Israeli Culture

3. 2002, Oct.

Brandeis University, Boston, Hebrew Literature Dep.

Workshop "On Interpretation: Modern Hebrew Literature Colloquium",

2002, October - Paper entitled: Interpretation and the work of Etgar Keret.

4. 2002, Nov.

University of Haifa Communication Dep.


Newspapers and the promotion of culture

5. 2003, April

Goldsmiths, University of London

Cultures of Journalism Symposium

Journalists in Conflict: Members of Contradicting Communities (with Eyal Zandberg).

6. 2003, May

Hebrew University, Communication and Journalism Dep.


The Hebrew Publishing Industry

7. 2005, October

The Konrad Adenauer Center for Ethics, Jerusalem

Symposium on Ethics in the Literary Arena

The literary Supplements and the best seller lists

8. 2006, January

University of Haifa Communication Dep.


The Hebrew Publishing Industry

9. 2009, Jenuary

Universidad Complutense, Madrid; Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies


The role of culture mediators

10. 2009, Nov.

Universidad Complutense, Aranjues campus, Spain

Invited Keynote: "Journalism and the Military" conference

Media, Nationalism and Conflicts

11. 2009, Nov.

Univesidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

Invited talk in a workshop on television and identity

Local and Global in Reality Shows, invited talk in a,

12. 2011, April

Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA


Communicating Commemoration: Exploring Israeli Media on Memorial Day for the Holocaust and Heroism.

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(with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

13. 2011, Oct.

University of Haifa An International workshop: What is Newsworthy? Reexamining News Criteria

- "Reversed Memory": Newsworthiness and the shaping of Collective Memory. (with Eyal Zandberg & Oren Meyers).

14. 2011, Oct.

University of Haifa An International workshop: What is Newsworthy? Reexamining News Criteria

Journalistic futurology: Newsworthiness and probable future events

15. 2012, Nov.

The Konrad Adenauer Center for Ethics, Jerusalem, Mishkenot Shananim

Symposium on Ethics in TV Reality Shows

The ethics of TV Reality Shows

16. 2013, April

Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education

Tel-Aviv University.

The Media and the Jewish-Arab conflict"

17. 2013, Oct.

University of Haifa

International Workshop on Culture Industries Work

Fade to Grey: The book industry and the challenges facing new culture mediators

18. 2014, April

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem.

Invited lecture for the cadets of the diplomatic service,

Media and Politics in the New Media age

19. 2014, May

Tel Aviv University Department Colloquium

News and speculations

20. 2014, Sep.

Hebrew University Invited lecture for the graduate students of the School of Public Policy and Government

Politics dot com: Media & Politics

21. 2014, Nov.

Tel Aviv University Department Colloquium

Communicating Awe: Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration (with Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg).

22. 2015, Feb.

Hebrew University Department Colloquium


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23. 2015 March

Hebrew University Department Colloquium


B. Invited Popular Lectures/Panels as a Scholar

Date Inviting institute Name of

symposium

Subject of Lecture

1. 2006, Nov.

Tel Aviv Cinematheque

The military and the media

The Israeli Media in the second Lebanon war.

2. 2007, Jan.

Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam

Jewish-Palestinian journalists encounter, Istanbul, Turkey.

Between the nation and the profession.

3. 2012, April

The S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue

Countering Assaults on Israel’s Legitimacy?

Which assaults are we countering? What might really jeopardize Israel's legitimacy?"

4. 2012, Nov.

Israel Journalists Association, annual conference in Eilat

Politics and Broadcasting

Panelist

5. 2012, Nov.


The language of the radio: uses and abuses

Panelist

6. 2013, Sep.

The Alliance of Press Councils of Europe - The 15

th annual

conference

Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of Transparency

Panel moderator and speaker

7. 2013, Nov.


The radio and the periphery in Israel

Panelist

8. 2013, Nov.

Israel Journalists Association, Eilat

Spokespersons and their ethical dilemmas

Panelist

9. 2013, Nov

The annual conference of mangers of culture departments in municipalities.

The role of commercial TV in Culture

Panelist

10. 2013, Nov

The Cameri Theater of Tel-Aviv. panel after the "Frost/Nixon"

The tension between politics and journalism

Panelist

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theater show

11. 2014, April

Israel's Sport Supporters Association

First Annual conference

Co-organizer and speaker

12. 2014, Nov.


Spokespersons and journalists

Panellist

13. 2014, Nov.


The future of radio The future of radio

14. 2015, April

The Journalists Union, Tel Aviv

The Media and Holocaust Remembrance Day

Invited lecture (with Oren Meyers)

15. 2015, April

Israel's Sport Supporters Association

Second Annual conference

Co-organizer and speaker

16. 2015, July

Beit Avi Hai, Jerusalem

Violent Conflicts and their Mediation: the role of news and fiction drama in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Panelist

17. 2015, Nov.


Audiences and the new-media age

Panelist

18. 2015, Nov.


Radio: FM vs. applications

Panelist

19. 2015 Dec.

IDF spokespersons, Int. Unit, one-day comm. course

Journalistic Criticism at War Times

Lecturer

20. 2015 Dec.

IDF spokespersons, Int. Unit, one-day comm. course

The reality behind Reality TV shows

Lecturer

21. 2016 Jan.

Israel Public Relations Association, annual conference in Eilat

How social networks changed PR?

Panelist

8. Awards and Research Grants

A1. Awards and Grants awarded before receiving PhD.

Role in Co- Topic Funded by/ Years

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Research

Researchers Amount

PI N/A Ph.D. Research grant: The Literary supplements and the Israeli Culture

Smart Institute, Hebrew University $2,000

1996-1999


Eshkol Institute, Hebrew U. $1,500

1997-1998


Chereek Institute, Hebrew U. $1,000

1999

A2. Awards and grants awarded after receiving PhD.

Role in

Research

Co-

Researchers

Topic Funded by/

Amount

Years

PI N/A Grant: The public role of commercial media: The case study of the Holocaust Memorial Day in public and commercial channels

Israel Second Authority for TV and Radio; $4,500

2005

PI N/A Grant: The books best seller lists in Israel

The Center for Ethics, "Mishkenot Shananim", Jerusalem; $600

2006

PI Oren Meyers (U. of Haifa) and Eyal Zandberg

Grant: Criticism and the Media in the Lebanon War

The Rothschild-Caesarea fund, Hertzog Institute, Tel-Aviv U.

2007

PI Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg

Grant: Collective Memory and Multi-channel Commercial Media: Television and Radio on Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism, 1987-2007

Israel Science Foundation $40,000

2007

PI N/A Grant: TV News and Worst Case Scenarios: Exploring Reporting on Anticipated Catastrophes

Israel Second Authority for TV and Radio; $4,500

2008

PI Oren Meyers and Eyal

Grant for International workshop: On Media Memory - The Future of

Israel Science Foundation

2009

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Zandberg

Mediated Collective Memory in an Age of Changing Media Environments

$20,000

PI Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (Hebrew U.)

Grant: Journalism and the challenge of time: A comparative study of news temporalities

Israel Science Foundation $67,000

2014-2016

Ayelet Kohn

Grant for developing an academic on-line course for high-school students

Ministry of Education, $20,000

2015

B. Submission of Research Proposals – Pending

Role in

Research

Co-

Researchers

Topic Funded by/

Amount Years

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9. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

Co-

Researchers

Topic Awarded by/

Amount

Years

N/A The Avraham Issac Katz Prize for research in Jewish Studies

Institute for Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Literature department, Hebrew U.

2000

N/A The Noah Mozes Prize for Excellent Dissertation

Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew U.

2001

Oren Meyers and Eyal Zandberg

Top paper (1st. place) at the interactive (posters) session of the ICA conference, Boston, MA: Tuned to the Nation's Mood: Popular Music as a Mnemonic Cultural Object

International Communication Association (ICA), $500

2012

10. Teaching

A. Courses Taught in Netanya Academic College (selection)

Years

Name of Course Type of Course Degree Num. of Students

2001- Introduction to mass communication

Introduction Course BA 50-120

2012- Communication Theory Introduction Course MA 30

2004- Critical reading in Reality TV Shows

Seminar & elective course BA & MA

30

2003-2006

Journalists in Conflict

Seminar & elective course BA 25

2001- Introduction to Journalism

Introduction Course BA 50-120

2001-2005

Language & communication Introduction Course BA 80-120

2006-2008

The Arab-Israeli Conflict & the Media

Seminar & elective course BA 25

2004-2008

The Mediators of Culture Seminar & elective course BA 25

2011-2013

Media, Myths and Narrative Seminar & elective course MA 25

2001-2008

Communication as Culture Introduction Course BA 60-120

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B. Courses Taught in Other Academic Institutes (selection)

Years

Name of Course Type of Course:

Lecture/Seminar/

Introduction Course

(Mandatory)

Degree Num. of

Students

2000-2006

Communication Theory Introduction Course at the Comm. Dept., Hebrew U. & Seminar at the School of Information Studies, Hebrew U.

MA 30

2013- Critical reading in Reality TV Shows

Elective course at the Comm. Dept., Hebrew U.

BA & MA

25-30

2001-2004

Israeli publishers & publishing Houses

Seminar, Ben Gurion U., together with Prof. Haim Beer

MA 20

2000-2008

Introduction to Journalism Introduction Course at the Comm. Dept., Hebrew U.

BA 100

2000-2002

The Mediators of Culture Seminar at the Hebrew Literature Dept., Hebrew U.

BA 30

2000-2005

Communication as Culture Introduction Course at the Comm. Dept., Hebrew U.

BA 100

C. Teaching awards

Several courses were ranked a few times among the top 3 courses in teaching

surveys of the communication departments at both Netanya Academic College (2001-

2008, 2011-2013) and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2001, 2007, 2008). The

most popular news site in Israel, Ynet, listed me and my seminar on Reality TV as one

of the country’s top 10 lecturers (2012).

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D. Supervision of Graduate Students

Name of

Student

Title of Thesis Degree/institute Years of

commitment

and

completion

Co-supervisor and

articles

Irit Ze'evi The language of advertisement in the Israeli press

PhD Committee member, Comm. Dept., Hebrew U.

2003-2006 Itzhak Roeh and Rafael Nir

Kobi Ben-Simhon

Steimatzky: A book seller and a publisher

MA, Hebrew Literature Dept., Ben-Gurion University

2004-2006 Yigal Schwartz

Avishai Josman

The cultural production of weddings catalogues

MA, Comm. Dept., U. of Haifa

2007-2009 Tamar Katriel,

Narmina Abdulheib

Publishing processes from the writers' point-of-view: Books vs. internet literary sites

MA, Comm. Dept. Ben-Gurion U.

2007-2010 Zvi Reich, Item #19

Karni Rimmer

The newspaper supplements during wartime

MA, Comm. Dept., U. of Haifa

2008-2010 Uzi Eliada Items #20,# 02B and 80 (conference)

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11. Miscellaneous

Membership on Professional Association

2000- ICA (International Communication Association)

2000- ISCA (Israel Communication Association)

2001- Association for Jewish Studies

2002-2008 AIS (Association for Israel Studies)

2015 – Tel-Aviv Journalists Association

12. Professional Experience

Spokesperson for the Israel Antiquities Authority (1995-1996); reporter for "Kol

Ha'air" (Jerusalem main local newspaper); producer of symposia for the institute of

Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University; and the treasurer for the Jewish Agency

branch in Mexico (1997-2000).

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List of Publications

A. Doctoral Dissertation

1. Neiger, M. (2000). The Literary Supplements and the Shaping of Israeli Culture:

The Literary Supplements in the Israeli Press (1948-1995) - Originating Changes

and Reflecting Phenomena in Israeli Culture, Society, Press and Literature.” Ph.D.

Dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Advisers: Yitzhak Roeh (Dept.

of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University) and Ruth Karton-Bloom

(Dept. of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University). Awarded April, 2000.

B. Books and Edited Volumes

Neiger, M., Blondheim, M., & Liebes, T. (Eds.) (2008). Telling Media Stories –

Reflections on Media Discourse. Jerusalem: Magnes & Smart Institute, Hebrew

University. (380 pp.). [in Hebrew]

2. Neiger, M., Meyers, O., & Zandberg, E. (Eds.) (2011). On Media Memory:

Collective Memory in a New Media Age. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (300

pp.). The volume is part of the "Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series"

(Series editors: Andrew Hoskins and John Sutton).

Reviews:

1. Christine Lohmeier's review in Media, Culture & Society

2. Ingrid Volkmer's review in Journal of Communication

3. Hilde Van Den Bulck's review in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

4. Debi Withers' review in Memory Studies

5. Robert E. Gutsche's review in Journal of Communication Inquiry

6. Amanda Lagerkvist's review in Nordicom-Information (in Swedish)

3. Meyers, O. PI, Zandberg, E. PI &, Neiger, M. PI (2014). Communicating Awe:

Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

http://sfile.f-static.com/image/users/171194/ftp/my_files/On%20Media%20Memory-Media%20Culture%20Society-2013-Lohmeier-409-11.pdf?id=12449159

http://www.mottineiger.com/image/users/171194/ftp/my_files/Volkmer.pdf?id=9668864

http://www.mottineiger.com/image/users/171194/ftp/my_files/on%20media%20memory%20review%20-historical%20%20journal%20of%20film%20radio%20and%20television.pdf?id=10166329

http://www.mottineiger.com/image/users/171194/ftp/my_files/Memory%20Studies-2012-Withers-242-4-ON%20MEDIA%20MEMORY.pdf?id=10166330

http://www.mottineiger.com/image/users/171194/ftp/my_files/JoComInq-BookReview.pdf?id=10255123

http://www.mottineiger.com/image/users/171194/ftp/my_files/Reveiw%20On%20Media%20Memory%20Amanda%20Lagerkvist.pdf?id=10255189

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The book is part of the "Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series" (Series

editors: Andrew Hoskins and John Sutton).

C. Monographs & Research Reports (refereed)

1. Neiger M. PI, Zandberg, E. PI, & Abu-Raya, I. PI (2001). Israeli Media or Jewish

Media? – The Role of Israeli Media in Covering the Clashes between Israeli-

Arab citizens and the police on October 2000. Jerusalem: Keshev – Center for

the Democracy. (40 pp.) [in Hebrew].

2. Neiger, M. PI & Josman, A. S (2005). The Illusion of Democratic Choice: How

Reality Shows Obtain Audience Cooperation. Tel Aviv: Haim Herzog Institute,

Tel-Aviv University. (40 pp.). [in Hebrew].

3. Neiger, M. PI, Zandberg, E. PI & Meyers M. PI (2007). The Public role of

Commercial Media: Television and Radio Broadcasts during Israel's Memorial

Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism, 1991-2004. (97 pp.). [in Hebrew]

4. Neiger, M. PI, Zandberg, E. PI & Meyers M. PI (2008). The Rhetoric of Criticism:

Challenging Criticism, Reaffirming Criticism, and Israeli Journalism during the

Second Lebanon War. The Media in the Lebanon War series, Tel-Aviv: The

Rothschild-Caesarea School of Communication, Tel Aviv University. (52 pp.).

[in Hebrew]

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D. Articles in journals (refereed)

1. Neiger, M. (2000). The origins of literary supplements. Reeh: European journal

of Hebrew studies, 4: 55-75.

2. Neiger, M. PI

and Roeh, I. (0222). The secular holy scriptures: The role of the

holyday literary supplements in the Israeli press and culture. Journalism:

Theory, Practice & Criticism, 4(4), 477-489.

3. Neiger, M. PI and Zandberg,

E. PI (2004). Days of awe: The praxis of news

coverage of violent conflict. The European Journal of Communication

Research, 29, 429-446.

4. Neiger, M. (2004). When Literature Meets the Press – Trends in the Literary

Supplements of Daily Newspapers in Israel, From the 1950s to the 1990s .

Hebrew Studies, 45, 119-131.

5. Zandberg, E. PI and Neiger, M. PI (2005). Between the nation and the

profession: Journalists as members of contradicting communities. Media,

Culture & Society, 27(1), 131-141.

6. Neiger, M. (2007). Media Oracles: the political import and cultural significance

of news referring to the future. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 8(3):

326-338.

7. Neiger, M. (2008). The Establishment of the publishing industry in the Land of

Israel. Kesher, 37: 82-92.

8. Neiger, M. PI, Meyers, O. PI & Zandberg, E. PI (2009). Songs to Remember:

Popular Culture, Collective Memory and the Radio Broadcasts on Israel's

Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism. Megamot, 46(1-2): 254-280.

9. Meyers, O. PI, Zandberg, E. PI & Neiger, M. PI (2009). Prime time

commemoration: An analysis of television broadcasts on Israel's Memorial Day

for the Holocaust and the Heroism. Journal of Communication, 59: 456-480.

10. Neiger, M. PI, Zandberg, E. PI

, & Meyers, O. PI (2010). Communicating

critique: Towards a conceptualization of journalistic criticism.

Communication, Culture and Critique, 3(3): 377-395. (affiliated with the

ICA)

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11. Neiger, M. PI

& Abdulahib, N. PI

(2011). The publishing experience: Examining

books and internet literary sites publishing processes from the writers' point-of-

view. Kesher, 41: 54-64.

12. Neiger, M. PI

& Rimmer-Tsory, K. PI

(2011). The war that was not on the

news: Nationalism and war representations in Israel's newspaper

supplements during the Second Lebanon War on 2006. Israel Studies in

Language and Society. 3(2): 86-113.

13. Neiger, M. PI, Zandberg, E. PI, & Meyers, O. PI (2011). Tuned to the

nation's mood: Popular music as a mnemonic cultural object. Media, Culture &

Society. 33(7): 971-987.

14. Meyers, O. PI

, Neiger, M. PI

& Zandberg, E. PI

(2011). Structuring the sacred:

Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory.

The Communication Review, 14(3): 123-144.

15. Zandberg, E. PI, Neiger, M. PI, & Meyers, O. PI (2012). Past Continuous:

Newsworthiness and the Shaping of Collective Memory. Critical Studies in

Media Communication, 29(1): 65-79.

16. Neiger, M. (2012). Cultural oxymora: The Israeli idol negotiates meanings and

readings. Television and New Media, 13(6): 535-550.

17. Neiger, M. PI & Rimer-Tsory K. (2013). The War that wasn't on the News: "In-

group nationalism" and "out-group nationalism" in newspaper supplements.

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 14: 721-736.

18. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. PI & Neiger, M. PI (forthcoming). Print is Future, Online

is Past: Cross-Media Analysis of Temporal Orientations in the News.

Communication Research, 42(8): 1047-1067.

19. Neiger, M. PI & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. PI (forthcoming). Understanding

Journalism through a Nuanced Deconstruction of Temporal Layers in News

Narratives. Journal of Communication.

20. Neiger, M. (forthcoming). The Collective Vision. Israel Studies in Language

and Society. [Hebrew]

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E. Peer-Reviewed Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (not conference

proceedings)

1. Neiger M. (1996). The life of the poet and essayist Yeshurun Keshet. In:

Yeshurun Keshet – The Lost Treasure (pp. 631-664). Jerusalem:

Carmel. [in Hebrew].

2. Kohn A. PI & Neiger, M. PI (2007). To talk and to talkback: The rhetoric of the

Talk-Back in Israeli on-line newspapers. In T. Altshuler (Ed.). Journalism dot

com: on line newspapers in Israel. Jerusalem: The Israeli Democratic Institute.

[in Hebrew] (Cit=18).

3. Neiger, M. (2007). News speculating the future. In D. Caspi (Ed.). Media and

Politics in Israel (pp. 75-90). Jerusalem: Van-Leer Institute. [in Hebrew,

Extended version of an article published in Journalism].

4. Neiger, M. (2008). How to Read Texts in the Media – A critical model for

interpretation of texts. In M. Neiger, Blondheim M. & Liebes, T (Eds.). Telling

Media Stories – Reflections on Media Discourse. Jerusalem: Magnes & Smart

Institute, Hebrew University.

5. Neiger, M. PI & Kohn A. PI (2008). A Three Dimensional Perspective for Cultural

Interpretation of Protest Performances. In Alexander T. (Ed.) Igud – Essays on

Jewish Studies and Literature, 3rd

vol, pp. 227-245. Jerusalem: The World

Union of Jewish Studies.

6. Neiger, M. (2010). "Real love has no boundaries? - Dating reality tv shows

between global format and local-cultural conflicts." In A. Hetshroni (Ed.) Reality

Television: Merging the Global and the Local. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science

Publishers.

7. Neiger, M. (2010). The trends and the impact of the books best-seller list. In:

Kasel, L. and Hakak Y. (Eds.). The limits of quantifications: critical perspectives

on measuring and grading people, their behaviors and achievements. Beer-

Sheva: The Ben-Gurion University and the Israeli Association for Qualitative

Research Methods. [in Hebrew].

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8. Neiger, M. PI, Meyers, O. PI, Zandberg, E. PI (2011). On media memory - an

introduction. In: Neiger, M., Meyers, O., Zandberg, E. (Eds.). On Media

Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

(Cit=23).

9. Neiger, M. PI, Meyers, O. PI, Zandberg, E. PI (2011). Localizing collective

memory: regional radio stations in Israel and the construction of "regional

memory" In: Neiger, M., Meyers, O., Zandberg, E. (Eds.). On Media Memory:

Collective Memory in a New Media Age. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

10. Neiger, M. PI, Zandberg, E. PI, & Meyers, O. PI (2014). "Reversed memory":

Journalistic work between traumatic past and triumphal present. In Zelizer B. &

Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (Eds.). Journalism & Memory. London: Palgrave

Macmillan.

11. Neiger, M. (2015). Regimenting the agenda – An insider perspective from the

Israel Broadcasting Authority Ethics Committee" in Passages in the Media.

Nelly Elias, Zvi Reich, Galit Nimrod, Amit Schejter (Eds.).

F. Articles in Conference Proceedings

1. Neiger, M. (2013) Fear or hope? - How the media shapes our perceptions

regarding the future and solvability of political conflicts. Discourse, Culture, and

Education in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (pp. 4-9). The S. Daniel Abraham

Center for Strategic Dialogue and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

G. Entries in Encyclopedias

N/A

H. Other Scientific Publications

5. Neiger, M. (1993). The mother, the son and the spirit of postmodernism. Efes-

Shtaim, 2, 128-134.

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6. Neiger M. (2002). Fantasy discourse, the media and the second Intifada. Panim,

23, 45-52.

7. Neiger M. (2003). The literary supplement as a ritual. Panim, 27, 12-22.

8. Neiger, M. (2005). The Battlefield of Images: The TV reality show “The

Ambassador” (HaSagrir) and Israeli myths. Panim, 31, 75-80.

9. Neiger, M (2008, January). The plurality of culture: Poetry in the media. Society,

Poetry, Place (on-line journal), Issue number 28.

10. Neiger, M., Blondheim, M. & Liebes, T (2008). Introduction: Telling media stories

and the trajectory of Itzhak Roeh. In M. Neiger, Blondheim M. & Liebes, T (eds.).

Telling media stories – reflections on media discourse. Jerusalem: Magnes & Smart

Institute, Hebrew University.

I. Other Publications

1. Neiger, M (2006, 2 May). The Story of Hebrew Publishers before the

Establishment of Israel. Ma’ariv, Literature and Books, 20-23.

2. Neiger, M., (2007, December). Editor's preface. Media Frames: Israeli Journal of

Communication. 1(1): VII-IX.

3. Neiger, M. (2012), In memory of Prof. Rafael Nir. Kesher.

J. Other Works Connected with my Scholarly Field

Designing, writing and editing the new curriculum in Communication Studies for

Israel's High-Schools as the Chair of the curriculum committee at the Israeli

Ministry of Education (pro-bono)

Documents

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications · Motti Neiger, CV 8 33. 2013, August he World Union for Jewish Studies Congress, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Songs to remember: Music