Fully funded #postdoc position with focus on computational #textanalysis #NLP in my #ERC project about the social dynamics of projecting possible futures! Join our interdisciplinary team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem! More details here: tinyurl.com/y9r7hbh9

An amazing Postdoc/PhD opportunity for a native Japanese speaker! 🇯🇵 Join our international team in an #ERC project about values in digital media. For more details: limorshifman.huji.ac.il/digitalvalues #postdocjobs #postdoc #PhDs #Phdlife

We assume mail should be private and that that is good. But ancient Greeks viewed it with distrust and as an affront to ideal of public discourse. A short essay on ancient envelopes & privacy medium.com/berkman-klein-…

Hey geniuses: Do you have a fave piece that asks, "What is data?" as broadly as possible, AND/ OR addresses readers with super limited tech knowledge? Scholarly or popular is fine. Please RT; I'll compile list to share! TIA

When people around the world think about social media, what types of content do they think of? How do they feel about it? Bumsoo Rebecca Scharlach Tommaso Trillò Saki Mizoroki limor shifman and I explore these questions with a 5 country open-ended survey journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 👇[1/8]

Jews and Arabs standing together against violence. Please remember this image when your feeds are filled with the violence that is surely coming to Israel in the coming hours.

I’m extremely excited about this piece - the first theoretical article of the DigitalValues #ERC project.

Exciting job opportunity - come work at our top-rated comm department with fabulous colleagues Hebrew University! See call for applicants here tinyurl.com/8tfcd33s @[email protected] Christian Baden Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt Dima Epstein Lillian (Lilly) Boxman-Shabtai Paul Frosh Eran Amsalem and many more!

This tweet is dedicated to reviewers 1, 2 & 3. Your constructive and insightful comments made the revision process unexpectedly enjoyable!

It took a while, but our study of New Years’ Resolutions as a prism for the cross-cultural analysis of values is out there! Oddly, it’s often easier to publish single-country studies than cross-cultural comparative ones (particularly qualitative work) but it’s totally worth it…

Elihu Katz. A singular giant. One moment you stand on his shoulders, and in the next he offers you a hand to get down and discuss theory. The greatest mind, the warmest smile. Miss you already.

🚨 New article alert 🚨 “Sharing and social media: The decline of a keyword?” is live in New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… I revisit “Sharing and Web 2.0: The emergence of a keyword” (2012) to see what’s new with “sharing”. Spoiler alert: lots! Abstract 👇🏻 and 🧵 1/

✨New publication alert✨ In our new Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication #OA article for the European Research Council (ERC) DigitalValues project, Blake Hallinan, limor shifman and I present a typology of 16 social media rituals, reflecting transnational patterns in user-generated content. doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z… [1/7]

Hello world! This is the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew Uni of Jerusalem. Follow me to keep track of the amazing work being done by my faculty, PhD students, and more!

People who read their news on The New York Times are not starting to grasp the horrific reality in Israel. Hundreds massacred, kids kidnapped. Just a small example - this woman and her young children were kidnapped yesterday from their home. Look at this baby and try to justify.

Imagine supporting a massacre, rape, and abduction of civilians, some of whom are little children, and still thinking that you are on the left.

If you don't live in Israel or consume Israeli media, you don't know who Yair Golan is. He is a 61-year-old retired Major General in the Israel army and a former parliament MP. Spend a minute to read this story. Yesterday, when IDF and the police were in complete chaos, Golan