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8/9/2019 Fair Media Center Annual Report 2009-10
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Netanya Academic College (rs)
1 University St.
Kiryat Yitzhak Rabin
NETANYA 42365, ISRAEL
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School of Communication
Summary of Activities 2009-2010
June, 2010
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Table of Contents
Background ....................................................................................................................1
A. Research and Publications ........................................................................................3
Public Diplomacy Project ..........................................................................................3
Publications of Members of the Center in their Specific Fields ................................4
Opinion Pieces on the Internet (MAKO web site) on the Television Series
Kidnapped, invited by the Keshet Company ......................................................7
B. Research Grants and Development ...........................................................................8
C. Lectures and Conferences in which Members of the Center took Part ...................10
D. Guests......................................................................................................................13
E. Activities in the Field of Instruction........................................................................14
Assistance to Masters and Doctoral Students ..........................................................14
F. Future Plans .............................................................................................................16
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Background
"Fair Media": The Center for the Study of Conflict, War, and Peace Coverage began
operations at Netanya Academic College's School of Communications in the Spring
of 2007, headed by Professor Dov Shinar. The reasoning behind the establishment of
the Center was the notion that despite experience garnered by the Israeli and
international media in coverage of conflicts, wars and peace processes, research in
this field has revealed professional, institutional, and functional constraints that
prevent media professionals from performing their mission: providing credible and
relevant information, and clarifying the contexts of conflicts and peace processes in a
fair and accurate manner. The Centers goal is to study the workings of the media and
improve their performance under conditions of war, peace processes and social
conflict, and broaden the scope of research, teaching and publishing on these topics.
The Center is based on a multidisciplinary approach provided by the faculty in the
School of Communication and other schools at the College as well as by external
Israeli and foreign academics, professionals, and institutions. In this endeavor, the
Center encourages the active participation of younger faculty and students in its
activities. All faculty members of the School of Communication are, as a matter of
course, members of the Center. In addition, scholars from other institutions, including
students at various levels of their studies, are also involved in the Center's work.
In the 2009/10 academic year the following were members of the Center:
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School of Communications, Netanya Academic College:
Professor Dov Shinar Professor Anat First
Dr. Motti Neiger Dr. Lea Mandelzis
Dr. Amir Har-Gil Dr. Eyal Zandberg
Dr. Reuven Pedatzur Dr. Muli Peleg
Dr. Arad Nir Dr. Michal Hamo
Dr. Yuval Dror Att. Moshe Negbi
Dr. Carmit Wiesslitz Dr. Sharon Remer-Biel
Hanna Kalderon Keren Dvir
Mushon Nachmias Haim Hagai
Meirav Paritzky Elie Friedman
Tally Gross Nimrod Shavit
Sagit Yakobovich
Researchers from other institutions:
Professor Arye Naor, School of Administration, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Roei Davidson, Department of the Communications, Haifa University
Dr. Dalia Liran Alper, School of Communications, College of Management
(Academic Program)
Meir Shlomo, Doctoral student, Paris 8 University
The activities of the center are funded through grants, internal and external sources,
and donations.
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A. Research and Publications
Public Diplomacy ProjectWith the conclusion of the study and formal delivery of the research report, including
its detailed recommendations (The Neaman Document) to The Samuel Neaman
Institute at the Technion and to the management at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(see www.neaman.org.il), the report has enjoyed high demand, as detailed by the
entries and downloads from the Samuel Neaman Institute web site, where the report is
published.
The leading publications of the Samuel Neaman Institute in 2009 were as follows:
Name of the Publication Number ofDownloads
Differences in the quality of higher education between Universitiesand Colleges: Evaluation based on contribution to the workforce
14576
A secular, liberal, modern vision of Israel 13437
The Neaman Document -A study on Israeli Public Diplomacy; AJoint Project of the S. Neaman Institute, Technion And the Ministryof Foreign Affairs, Israel.
English downloads: 6849
Hebrew downloads: 2786
9635
Innovating During Global Recession - Transforming Risk intoOpportunity
5080
Proceedings of the International Conference: "Privatization inHigher Education" January 7-8 2008
4428
Evaluation of Israel R&D PlanMagneton- Summary report 3707
Enlarging Water supply in Israel through Non Revenue Water(NRW) Reduction and Prevention of Sewage Leakage
2951
Evaluation of the Space Industrys Impact on the Israeli Economy 2660
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Members of the Center from the School of Communications and other institutions
(Prof. Anat First, Prof. Arie Naor, Prof. Lea Mandelzis, Dr. Roee Davidson, and Dr.
Dalia Liran-Alper) completed their work on the Public Diplomacy Project headed by
Professor Dov Shinar. The project was initiated and funded by the Samuel Neaman
Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology at the Technion, in
cooperation with Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project sought to study,
analyze and recommend policy guidelines for effective Israeli public diplomacy that
will address Israels needs in this sphere, based on field work and existing data.
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Publications of Members of the Center in their Specific Fields
Avraham, E. & First A. (2010) Combining the Representation Approach with the
Framing Concept: Television News Coverage of the Arab Population in
Israel during Conflict.Journalism, 11 (4).
First, A., (2010). Enemies, Fellow Victims, or the Forgotten? News Coverage of
Israeli- Arabs in the 21st Century. Conflict and Communication Online, 9 (2)
First, A. & Hermann, T. (2009). Sweet Nationalism in Bitter Days: A Commercial
Representation of Zionism.Nation and Nationalism, 15 (3).
First, A. (2009). How Media Construct Regime Legitimacy. In: Y. Bar-Siman-Tov
(Ed.). The Disengagement Plan - and Idea Shattered. Jerusalem: Jerusalem
Institute for Israel Studies. [in Hebrew].
Hamo, M., Kampf, Z., & Shifman, L. (2010). Surviving the Mock Interview:
Challenges to Political Communicative Competence in Contemporary
Televised Discourse. Media, Culture & Society, 32(2).
Mandelzis, L. and Bernstein, A.(2010). 'Ichud Bnei Sachnin in the Documentary
Discourse: The Story of An Arab Cup Holder in a Jewish State', Social
Issues in Israel. Ariel University Center of Samaria, January 2010. [In
Hebrew[
Mandelzis, L. and Bernstein, A. (2009). "Bnei Sakhnin as Reflected in the
Documentary Looking Glass: the Story of Arab Cup-Holder in a Jewish
State", in Yair Galily and Amir Ben-Porat (guest Eds.) "60 years of sports in
the Israeli State", a special issue ofSport in Society, September.
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Neiger, M., Zandberg, E, & Meyers, O. (forthcoming, 2010). Communicating
Critique: Towards a Conceptualization of Journalistic Criticism,
Communication, Culture and Critique. 3:3
Shinar, D. (2009),"Can Peace Journalism Make Progress? The Coverage of the 2006
Lebanon War in Canadian and Israeli Media ", International Communication
Gazette 71(6), October.
Taub, G., & Hamo, M. (accepted for publication, 2010). Dialectic Textual
Negotiation: Redemption and Sovereignty in Manifestos of the Israeli
Religious Settlers' Movement. Journal of Language and Politics.
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Opinion Pieces on the Internet (MAKO web site) on theTelevision Series Kidnapped, invited by the KeshetCompany
A. Har-Gil, The Series Kidnapped compared to the movie Prisoners of War
E. Zandberg, Sleeping with the enemy: kidnapped or suspects? Why
Kidnapped and not Prisoners of War?
M. Hamo, The truth of Haim Cohen and the fabrication of Yael Ben-Horin.
S. Yakobovich, Nimrod is allured to the past, Uri chooses life.
M. Nachmias., Kidnapped: to be or not to be.
M. Neiger, When the myth comes down from the airplane plank; POWs in Ethos;
I will die and keep on going: between the world of the living and world of the
dead; Name as fate: Is Nimrod the rebel and Uri the mythological Tzabar?; The
secret charm of the Kidnapped.
A. First, I gave a flower to Nurit that she threw away in the yard.
S. Remer-Biel, Kidnapped: What are Nimrod and Uri hiding?
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B. Research Grants and Development
War and peace coverage: Prof. Dov Shinar completed and submitted an outline for
the development of a course in public diplomacy, within the framework of the faculty
enrichment program sponsored by the government of Canada and the Israeli
Association for Canadian Studies (grant 4,800 Canadian dollars).
The representation of regular people in conflict situations:Dr. Motti Neiger and
a group of researchers from Universidad Complutense in Spain submitted a request to
Spains Ministry of Education entitled: A proposal for investigating the
representations of "ordinary people" during conflict (24,000 Euro).
Critical Consumption of Media within the context of the conflict: the Center
received from the European Union (through a partnership with the Vento Region in
Italy and the Palestine-Israel Journal) a grant of approximately 90,000 Euro for the
development of educational materials on the topic of critical consumption of media
within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pilot projects in Israeli and
Palestinian teacher-training institutions. Prof. Dov Shinar is coordinating the project
with members of the Center: Dr. Lea Mendelzis, Haim Hagay, and Elie Friedman, as
well as external staff, such as Carol Daniel-Casbari. Jewish and Arab students will
take part in the project.
Project for the training of Israeli and Palestinian journalists in conflict coverage:
Prof. Dov Shinar was appointed to the advisory committee to a project sponsored by
the Search for Common Ground International NGO, for the training of young
Palestinian and Israeli journalists in the coverage of conflict. The committee includes
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media personnel, businessmen, and academics (Israeli and Palestinian). The
committee convened for the first time on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea in
January, 2010, and formulated an action plan for the project.
People to People Platform (PtPP( : A Revival of Community Video?: Following
the UNESCO Power of Peace Network (PPN) call for proposals, the center submitted
a proposal for the funding of a project that will advance civilian communication
between populations divided by hostility and policy. The use of new technologies is
expected to rejuvenate community media, following its downgrading at the end of the
previous century.
In parallel, a proposal was submitted to the organization Open Video to hold a
workshop during a conference that will take place in New York in October, 2010. The
proposal was submitted by Dr. Amir Har-Gil, Mr. Moshe Nachmias, and Prof. Dov
Shinar, in partnership with researchers from the Veneto region in Italy. If the project
will be approved, the initiators plan to request support for research to evaluate the
project through an analysis of content, discourse, form, and technology.
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C. Lectures and Conferences in which Members of theCenter took Part
Members of the Center participated and presented their papers at numerous
conference and meetings in Israel and abroad, dealing with the activities topics of the
Center, including:
First, A. (May, 2010) Enemies, friends, and what is between them: the representation
of Arabs in the media over the last decade within the framework of
multiculturalism, seminar at the School of Communication, The
Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia.
First, A. (April, 2010) Within the framework of the Walter Lebach Institute, Tel-Aviv
University.
Friedman, E. (May, 2010) Talking back in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: rational
dialogue and reconciliation or emotional shouting match and confrontation?,
The Annual Association of Israel Studies Conference, University of Toronto.
Mandelzis, L. (June 2009) "A Study on Israeli Public Diplomacy: Strategies, Frames
and Methods". Paper presented at the 25th
Annual Association for Israel
Studies Conference on Center and Periphery. Israel.
Mandelzis, L. and A. Bernstein. (June, 2009) "Between "Reality" and Its
Representation: Documenting Arab Football in a Jewish State". Paper
presented at the 25th
Annual Association for Israel Studies Conference on
Center and Periphery. Israel.
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Mandelzis, L. and A. Bernstein. (August, 2009) Football Seminar: The Role of
Football Journalism in Imagining Community and Constructing Identity and
Values, Karlstad, Sweden.
Mandelzis, L. and A. Bernstein. (January, 2010) "New Media New Discourse?
Football, Arab Minority and national Identity in Israel. Paper presented at the
41st
Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociology Association. The Western
Gallilei Academic College, Israel.
Neiger, M., E. Zandberg & O. Meyers. (April 2010) "Television News,
Representation and Commemoration: Israeli newscasts on Holocaust
Memorial Day", Representation Now: the sum of it all. Saint Louis
University, Madrid Campus,
Neiger, M. (March, 2010) - Criticism during Conflicts, "Crisis in Democracy"
Conference, University of Haifa.
Neiger, M. (November 2009) - Invited key-note on "Journalism and the Military",
Universidad Complutense, Aranjues Campus, Spain.
Shinar, D. (August 2009) Invited Lectures "War Journalism and Peace Journalism in
the Middle East" Brazil: Sao Paulo (Casper Libero College), Rio de Janeiro
(Univer-cidade), Porto Alegre (Federal University).
Shinar, D. (May, 2009) Security and Media, a workshop dealing with Israeli
society and national security, held by the Strategic Dialogue Center at
Netanya Academic College and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
Shinar, D. (sabbatical September-December 2009), taught Graduate Course on
Political Communication (International Communication), New York
University Steinhardt School, Department of Media, Culture and
Communication
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Shinar, D. (December 2009) Invited Lecture "The Media in the Middle Eastern
Conflict", New York University, Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Shinar, D. (January, 2010) Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania - "War Discourse,
Peace Discourse: More of the Same?"
Shinar, D., and V. Bratic. (March, 2010) "Asymmetric Peace in the Middle East and
the Western Balkans: Real Realities and Media Realities", presented at the
Eleventh Mediterranean Research Meeting, Florence and Montecatini Terme,
organized by the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
Shinar, D., and V. Bratic. (May, 2010), "Asymmetric Peace in the Middle East and
the Western Balkans: Real Realities and Media Realities", Conference on
"Media, Psychology and Representations in Asymmetric Conflict", Smart
Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Shinar, D.,(June 2010), "What Do We Really Know About War and Peace
Coverage"? Training Project for Young Israeli and Palestinian Journalists by
the Search for Common Ground International Organization, Tel Aviv.
Zandberg, E., M. Neiger & O. Meyers. (May, 2010) Your remember the songs: radio
broadcasts in Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the conference:
Radio in Israel: between nationalism and escapism, the Open University.
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D. Guests
Arturo Marzano a research fellow at University of Pisa, Italy, at Yad VShem,
and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Expert in the field of Italian Jewry and in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Clark McCauley professor of social psychology at Bryn Mawr
College in the United States, Co-director of the Solomon Asch
Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, founding editor of the
journal Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward
Terrorism and Genocide and consultant for the evaluation of research proposals for
the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation.
Viktor Mayer-Schonbergera professor for public
diplomacy, Director of the Director of the Information
and Innovation Policy Research Center at the LKY
School of Public Policy, National University of
Singapore and lecturer at Harvard University. Owner of a start-up company,
consultant to businesses, governments, and international organizations. Author of the
bookDelete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, which the author presented
at a joint event of the School of Communication, the Strategic Dialogue Center, and
the Fair Media Center at Netanya Academic College on 15.6.2010, followed by a
discussion with the participation of Dr. Yuval Dror, Mr. Giora Rosen, and Prof. Elihu
Katz.
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E. Activities in the Field of Instruction
Dr. Lea Mendelzis, Dr. Reuven Pedatzur, and Prof. Dov Shinar teach in the School of
Communication courses and seminars dealing with war and peace in the media, the
media coverage of security issues, Israels security approach, and the media and
nuclear issues in the Middle East.
Within the framework of the grant awarded by the European Union (see above), Dr.
Lea Mendelzis is developing the course: critical consumption of media within the
context of the Middle East conflict, which will be used as a pilot for research
activities.
Assistance to Masters and Doctoral Students
Prof. Dov Shinar
The following PhD. theses were approved:
Dr. Rachel Baruch (supervision with Dr. Eli Kozminsky, Ben Gurion University)
Gender and information technology: characteristics of approaches, attitudes,
and discourse of teaching students within online learning environments.
Dr. Carmit Weislitz (supervision with Prof. Binyamin Gidron, Ben Gurion
University)Internet, democracy, and civil society online activities of civil
society organizations in Israel.
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Dr. Keren Tamam (supervision with Prof. Elie Podeh, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem)The civilian aspect of foreign news during periods of war and peace
the Israeli-Arab conflict as a test case.
Dr. David Meronsupervision of post-doctoral work at Ben Gurion University.
Works in progress:
Ms. Adi Zamir Nizan (supervision with Prof. Noah Ephron, Bar Ilan University)
Conflicts on the Internet and the Internet in conflicts: the Israeli-Palestinian
case.
Dr. Motti Neiger
Karni Rimer (thesis at University Haifa with Uzi
Elida, completed in January, 2010): The war that
wasnt in the news representations of nationalism
in daily newspaper supplements in Israel during the
Second Lebanon War.
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F. Future Plans
Submitting proposals for future projects and studies.
Continuation of producing publications and participation in conferences.
Increase of cooperation with bodies in Israel (the Strategic Dialogue Center) and
abroad (universities, UNESCO, the European Union, and foundations).
Increase in cooperation with researchers and professionals from Israel and abroad.
Broadening and deepening of cooperation with Masters students in the Center's
projects.
FAIR MEDIA
The Center for the Study of Conflict, War, and Peace Coverage
Netanya Academic College1 University St.
Kiriyat Yitzchak RabinNetanya 42365
Tel: +972-9-860-7416
Mail:[email protected]
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