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Eran Fisher, Associate Professor

Eran Fisher
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The Open University of Israel Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication One University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:972-9-7781742 Email:[email protected]

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2010-2012
Post-Doctoral Studies, Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies, and the Department of Communication Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2003-2008
PhD in Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York.
2000-2002
MA in Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York.
1997-1999
MA (cum laude) in Sociology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
1994-1996
BA (cum laude) in Behavioral Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
2020
Associate Professor, The Open University of Israel
2015 - 2019
Senior Lecturer, The Open University, Israel
2012-2014
Visiting lecturer, The Open University, Israel
2008-2009
Visiting Assistant Professor, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.
2017
Head of Communication Studies, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University
2017
Member, Study Program Approval Committee, The Open University
2016
Member, Editorial Board, Special 40th anniversary issue on Time, The Open University.
2015-present
Member, sub-committee of Management and Economics, The Open University, Israel.
2013-2014
Acting head of communication, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University, Israel.
2013-present
Member, sub-committee of Social Sciences, The Open University, Israel.
2015-present
Editorial Board Member, University of Westminster Press, Critical Digital and Social Media Studies series
2014-present
Editorial Board Member, Palgrave Macmillan, Dynamics of Virtual Work series
2009-present
Editorial Board Member, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique

Theory, Culture, and Society

Journal of Communication

Information, Communication, and Society

International Sociology

TripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique

Journal of Peer Production

New Media and Society

Resling Publishing (Israel)

University of Westminster Press

Palgrave Macmillan

Haifa University Press

Israeli Communication Association

European Sociological Association

European Research Council

Israel Science Foundation

International Communication Association

International Association for Mass Communication Research

Israeli Communication Association

European Sociological Association

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

2017-2019
Member, Goldberg Prize Committee for Outstanding Manuscripts, The Open University Press
2016
Trainer, Technologies of digital work, a COST Action IS1202 Dynamics of Virtual Work training school, 3-6 May, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia
2014
Participant in reading and research group on Cultural Production and Communication Technologies, Organized by Tamar Katriel, Rivka Ribak and Roei Davidson, Department of Communication, University of Haifa
2013
MA thesis reviewer, Department of Communication, Ben Gurion University. Thesis
2013
Co-organizer, Mini-conference on, “Prosumption: When consumers become producers online”, Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication, The Open University, April 29
2012-2016
Member of the Management Committee and Working Group Leader, COST Action IS1202 “The Dynamics of Virtual Work”
2011-present
Member, Israeli Delegation, “Information for All Program”. UNESCO
2011-2012
Member, COST Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”
2009-2010
Scientific Committee Member, IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) Multi Conference “Information and Communication Technology, Society, and Human Beings, Algarve, Portugal, 21 - 23 June
2008
Social Research Symposium Committee member, Lock Haven University
2011
Honorable Mention, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Book Award for Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of Networks (2010, Palgrave).
2011
Second place, Israeli Sociological Association Prize for Best Article for ‘Contemporary Technology Discourse and the Legitimation of Capitalism’ (2010, European Journal of Social Theory).
2010-2011
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies, Ben Gurion University (NIS 160,000)
2009-2010
Returning Scholar Grant, Israeli Ministry of Absorption (NIS 100,000)
2002
The Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies Award for MA Thesis (NIS 15,000).

Fisher, Eran. 2020. Do algorithms have a right to the city? Waze and algorithmic spatiality. Cultural Studies DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2020.1755711

Fisher, Eran. 2020. The ledger and the diary: Algorithmic knowledge and subjectivity. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies  DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1717445   

Fisher, Eran and Ben Fisher. 2019. Shifting capitalist critiques: Unionizing discourse in the high-tech sector. Triple-C: Capitalism, Communication, and Critique, 17(2): 308-326.

Fisher, Eran and Ben Fisher. 2019. Unionizing discourse among Israeli Hi-Tech workers 2014-2018. Israeli Sociology, 20(2): 10-33 [in Hebrew].

Fisher, Ben, and Eran Fisher. 2019. When Push Comes to Shove: Dynamics of Unionizing in the Israeli High-Tech Sector. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization, 13(2): 37-56.

Barry, Laurance and Eran Fisher. 2019. Digital Audiences and the
Deconstruction of the Collective. Subjectivity. 12(3): 210-227.

Fisher, Eran and Yoav Mehozay. 2019. How Algorithms See Their Audience: Media Epistems and the Changing Conception of the Individual, Media, Culture, and Society, 41(8): 1176–1191.

Mehozay, Yoav and Eran Fisher. 2018. The Epistemology of Algorithmic Risk Assessment and the Path Towards a Non-Penology Penology, Punishment & Society, 21(5): 523–541.

Fisher, Eran. 2018. When information wanted to be free: Discursive bifurcation of Information and the origins of Web 2.0, Information Society, 34(1): 40-48.

Fisher, Eran. 2015. Class Struggles in the Digital Frontier: Audience Labour Theory and Social Media Users, Information, Communication, and Society, 18(9): 1108-1122.

Fisher, Eran. 2015. ‘You Media’: Audiencing as marketing in social media, Media, Culture, and Society, 37: 50-67.

Fisher, Eran. 2012. “How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience
Labour on Social Network Sites”, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique, 10(2): 171-183.

Reprinted in Fuchs, Christian, and Vincent Mosco (Eds.) (2016). Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism (Vol. 2 of Marx is Back). Leiden: Brill. Pp. 180 – 204.

Reprinted in Fuchs, Christian, and Vincent Mosco (Eds.) (2014). Marx Geri Döndü: Medya: Meta ve Sermaye Birikimi. Ankara: Nota Bene (Turkish).

Fisher, Eran. 2010. “Trapped in the Net: Network Technology Discourse and the New Capitalism”, Theory and Criticism, 37: 150-183 [in Hebrew].

Fisher, Eran. 2010. “Contemporary Technology Discourse and the Legitimation of Capitalism”, European Journal of Social Theory, 13(2): 229-52.

Fisher, Eran. 2008. “The Classless Workplace: The Digerati and the New Spirit of Technocapitalism”, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 11(2), June: 181-198.

Fisher, Eran. 2007. “‘Upgrading’ Market Legitimation: Revisiting Habermas’s ‘Technology as Ideology’ in Neoliberal Times”, Fast Capitalism, 2(2).

MA thesis

Fisher, Eran. 2000.“Post-historicism and Post-Nationalism in Israel: Television Series Tkuma and the Crisis of Israeli Identity”. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University (under the supervision of Prof. Uri Ram and Prof. Yishai Tobin)

PhD dissertation

Fisher, Eran. 2008. “The Spirit of Networks: Wired magazine and the Discourse on Technology in Post-Fordist Society”, Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research (under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Carpignano, Prof. Uri Ram, Prof. Geoffrey Goldfarb, and Prof. Stanley Aronowitz)

Fisher, Eran. 2011. Capitalism in the Digital Media Age: The New Economy and Technology Discourse. Tel Aviv: Resling [Hebrew].

Fisher, Eran. 2010. Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of Networks. New York: Palgrave. [Reprint in paperback, 2013]. (Honorable Mention, 2011 Association of Internet Researchers Book Award)

Fisher, Eran and Christian Fuchs (Eds.) 2015. Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age. New York: Palgrave. [Reprint in paperback, 2017]. 

Benski, Tova, and Eran Fisher (Eds). 2014. Internet and Emotions. New York: Routledge.

Fisher, Eran. 2019. Communication: Technology, Society, Culture. Raanana: The Open University of Israel [Hebrew]

Fisher, Eran. Forthcoming. Can algorithmic knowledge about the self be critical?, in Matteo Stoccheti [ed.], The Digital Age and its Discontents: Reflections, Experiences, and Interventions in Education, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. 

Fisher, Eran. 2018. “From Ford to Facebook: Time and Technologies of Work”, in Paško Bilić, Jaka Primorac, and Bjarki Valtýsson (Eds.), Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction. New York: Palgrave. Pp, 37-55.

van der Graaf, Shenja, and Eran Fisher. 2017. "The Imperative of Code: labour, regulation and legitimacy", in Pamela Meil and Vassil Kirov (eds), The Policy Implications of Virtual Work, New York: Palgrave. Pp  109-135.

Fuchs, Christian and Eran Fisher. 2015. “Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age”, in Eran Fisher and Christian Fuchs (Eds.), Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age, New York: Palgrave. Pp. 3-25.

Fisher, Eran. 2015. “Audience labour on social media”, in Eran Fisher and Christian Fuchs (Eds.), Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age, New York: Palgrave. Pp. 115-131.

Fisher, Eran. 2015. “The dialectics of prosumption in the digital age”, in Olivier Fraysse and Mathieu O’Neil (Eds.), Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 125-144.

Fisher, Eran. 2015. “Audience labour in social media: Lessons from the political economy of the internet”, in Nelly Elias, Galit Nimrod, Zvi Reich, and Amit Schejter (Eds), Media in Transition, Tel Aviv: Tzivonim [in Hebrew], pp. 105-126.

Benski, Tova, and Eran Fisher. 2014. “Introduction: Investigating emotions and the internet”, in Tova Benski and Eran Fisher (Eds.), Internet and Emotions. New York: Routledge. Pp. 1-14.

Fisher, Eran. 2012. “E-Governance and E-Democracy: Questioning technology-centered categories”, in David Levi-Faur (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.569-583.

Fisher, Eran. 2011. “Redrawing the labor line: Technology and work in digital capitalism”, in Gherab-Martin, Karim and Phillip Kalantzis Cope (Eds.), Mapping Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology, New York: Palgrave, pp. 227-244.

Fisher, Eran. 2007. “From safety net to the internet: The discourse on network production in post-Fordist Society” in Tal Azran and Dan Caspi (Eds.), New Media and Innovative Technologies, Be’er Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, pp. 98-131.

Fisher, Eran. 2014. Sponsored Listings, in Kerric Harvey (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Vol. 20, pp. 1208-1209.

Fisher, Eran. 2014. The Political Economy of Social Media, in Kerric Harvey (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Vol. 17, pp. 984-988.

Armano, Emiliana, Federico Chicchi, Eran Fisher, and Elisabetta Risi (Eds). 2014.
Boundaries and Measurements of Emerging Work Gratuity, Precariousness and
Processes of Subjectivity in the Age of Digital Production. Special issue of
Sociologia del Lavoro [Sociology of Work], 133.

Fisher, Eran. 2013. “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy, by Robert McChesney: A book review”, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 7(1): 141-148. 

Webster, Frank. 2011. Mass Communication and Society, 14(5): 690-2.

Livingstone Randall. 2011. Media, Culture, and Society, 33(3): 506-8.

Haggerty, Kevin. 2011. Contemporary Sociology, 40(2): 176-8.

Bade, David. 2011. Journal of Documentation, 67(5): 878-80.

Fuchs, Christian. 2011. TripleC, 9(2): 190-4.

Maman, Daniel. 2011. Israeli Sociology, 13(1): 204-6.

Fisher, Eran. 2010. “Disenthralling Ourselves: Rhetoric of Revenge and Reconciliation in Contemporary Israel by Nita Schechet: A Book Review”. Israel Studies Forum, 25(2): 136-138.

Fisher, Eran. 2009. “Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age, by Christian Fuchs: A Book Review”. Journal of Communication, 59: E13-E18.

2019
Principal Investigator - Unionization in the hi-tech sector - The Open University,
NIS 21,000
2019
Principal Investigator - International Seminar of Algorithmic Culture - Israel Science Foundation, NIS 70,000
2018
Member, International Network Program - Bjarki Valtysson and Ivo Furman - Algorithmic Software Culture: Capturing, Theorizing and Regulating Social Media - Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education,
NIS 160,000
2017-2019
Principal Investigator - How do algorithms imagine their audience? A study of digital media professionals - Israel Science Foundation, NIS 300,000
2016
Principal Investigator - The bifurcation of Information in digital capitalism: The political economy of free and commodified information - Short Term Scientific Mission, COST Action IS1202, NIS 10,000
2009
Recipient  - Book publication grant - College of Management-Academic Studies, Rishon Le-Zion, NIS 10,000

2020, February 25-26, Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association, Bar-Ilan Univeristy, Do algorithms have a right to the city? Waze and algorithmic aptiality, Presenter

2020, January 9-10, Fourth International Conference on Cultural Political Economy, Staffordshire University, UK, Making health data into an epistemic consumption object: An Israeli case study, Presenter (with Zeev Rosenhak

2019, November 13-15, Digital fracturing: Disruptive Technopolitics and Political Order, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, Politics of Algorithms, Presenter

2019, October 30-31, Meaning and Markets: European, North American, and Israeli Perspective, The Hebrew University, Making health data into an epistemic consumption object: An Israeli case study, Presenter (with Zeev Rosenhak)

2019, October 23-25, Algorithmic Knowledge in Culture and in the Media, International, The ledger and the diary: algorithms and subjectivity, Organizer, Presenter, Discussant

2019, September 18-21, 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium, The Variant Epistemes of Risk Assessments: The Devil and the Entrepreneur, Presenter (with Yoav Mehozay and Ronit Blumkine)

2019, September 16, About time: human sciences and modern time, Inter-disciplinary workshop, The Open University, iNakba: Co-presence in Time and Space, Presenter (With Norma Musih)

2019, September 4-7, Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Making Health Data into an Epistemic Consumption Object: An Israeli Case-Study, Co-author (with Zeev Rosenhek)

2019, August 20-23, The 14th conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester, UK, Do Algorithms have a Right to the City? Waze and Spatial Sovereignty, Presenter

2019, June 27-29, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York City, Shifting capitalist critiques: Unionizing discourse in the high-tech sector, Presenter

2019, June 27-29, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York City, Making health data into an epistemic consumption object: An Israeli case-study, Presenter

2019, January 21-22, semi-plenary on The Sociology of Digital Economy at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association, University of Haifa, The internet as a space for exchange, production, and discipline, Invited speaker

2018, October 3-4, Workshop on Political Thought in Israel, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Can algorithmic knowledge about the self be critical?, Workshop participant

2018, September 6-8, Annual meeting of Research Network 18 (media and communication) of the European Sociological Association meeting, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Algorithmic self: the eclipse of reason, Presenter

2018, July 18-21, 10th Beyond Humanism conference, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland, Can algorithmic knowledge about the self be critical, Presenter

2018, April 26, colloquium of the School for Behavioral Science, College of Management – Academic Studies, The algorithmic self: subjectivity between humans and big data, Invited speaker

2018, April 20, Automated Justice: Algorithms, Big Data and Criminal Justice Systems, Zurich University, Switzerland, The epistemological evolution (and revolution) of the effectiveness movement and automated justice, Presenter (with Yoav Mehozay)

2018, February 4, Colloquium for the Study of Digital Culture, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Algorithms and the political self, Invited speaker

2018, January 29-30, the annual conference of the Israel Sociological Association, Ben Gurion University, The algorithmic self: Risk assessment in the criminal justice system in times of big data, Presenter (with Yoav Mehozay)

2018, January 8, The Problem of Theorizing Privacy, workshop at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, Comments on Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Privacy as Protection of the Incomputable Self: From Agnostic to Agonistic Machine Learning, commentator

2017, December 3, Colloquium of the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Bar Ilan University, Can algorithmic knowledge about the self be critical?, Invited speaker

2017, November 2, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, The aesthetics of data visualization: is beauty making a comeback to science?, Invited speaker

2017, November 1, Feeling data: emotion and affect in datafied worlds, Data, Self & Society group at the Consumer Society Research Centre, University of Helsinki, Finland, Can algorithmic knowledge about the self be critical? Lessons from psychoanalysisWorkshop participant

2017, October 31, Colloquium of the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, The bifurcation of information online, Invited speaker

2017, August 29-September 1, The 13th conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens, When information wanted to be free: Information bifurcation and the origins of Web 2.0, Presenter

2017, May 21-22, Conference on the social facets of surveillance and control, Bar Ilan University, When information wanted to be free: surveillance and the origins of Web 2.0, Presenter

2017, January 30-31, The annual conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, The Open University, How media companies stopped worrying and started loving the notion that information wants to be free: The historical origins of Web 2.0, Presenter

2016, December 7, Colloquium of the Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, How media companies stopped worrying and started loving the notion that information wants to be free: The historical origins of Web 2.0, Invited speaker

2016, November 25, Colloquium of the Cultural Studies Program, The Open University of Israel, How media companies stopped worrying and started loving the notion that information wants to be free: The historical origins of Web 2.0, Invited speaker

2016, November 14, Colloquium of the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Audience labour struggles on social media, Invited speaker

2016, July 25, New Direction in Theories of Capitalism, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Information bifurcated: how information became concurrently free and commodified in digital capitalism, Invited Speaker

2016, June 16, A Seminar in Honor of Tova Benski, School of Behavioral Science, College of Management – Academic Studies, The rationalization of emotions in digital media, Invited Speaker

2016, May 17, colloquium of the School of Communication, College of Management – Academic Studies, What does the social media audience do? Lessons from the political economy of the internet, Invited speaker

2016, April 26, Master course ‘Users and Innovation in New Media`, Department Media & Communication Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, How value is created on social media: A Marxist perspective, Invited lecturer

2015, June 29, Consumption and culture in Israel: critical perspectives and social implications, First conference of the section on research on consumption and culture of the Israeli Sociological Association, Audience labour on the internet and in capitalism, Presenter

2015, January 21, Colloquium of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University, Marx on Facebook: Value, Labour, and class in social networking sites, Invited speaker

2014, October 24, Free and unpaid work, gratuity, collaborative activity and precariousness, University of Bologna, ItalyFrom safety net to the internet: the promise of technology in capitalism, Invited speaker

2014, September 3-5, The Dynamics of Virtual Work: The Transformation of Labour in a Digital Global Economy, University of Hertfordshire, the UK, Audience labour struggles in social media, Presenter

2014, June 23, Colloquium of the Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Haifa, Audience labour in social media: lessons from the political economy of communication, Invited speaker

2014, June 15-17, Workshop on Marx’s labour theory of value in the digital age, The Open University of Israel Audience labour: Social media audience subjectivity between theory and praxis, Workshop participant + co-organizer (with Christian Fuchs)

2013, November 18, Seminar of the Institute for Internet Studies, Tel Aviv University, The centrality of the audience in the political economy of the Internet, Invited speaker

2013, November 7-10, Historical Materialism Conference, London, the UK, The ideology of digital labour, Presenter

2013, October 29, Colloquium of the Hermeneutics and Culture Program, Bar-Ilan University, What does social media audience do? Lessons from the political economy of the internet, Invited speaker

2013, June 17, International Communication Association Preconference: Exploring and Remaking Critical Studies of Advertising, New Media? You Media! Revisiting audience labour in social media; the case-study of Sponsored Stories, Presenter

2013, May 29-30, ICTs and Work: the United States at the Origin of the Dissemination of Digital Capitalism, Université Paris Sorbonne, Between technology and ideology: Wired Magazine and the rise of digital capitalism, Conference keynote speaker

2013, April 23, Communications in Transitions: In honor of Dan Caspi, Department of Communication, Ben Gurion, Marx 2.0: Audience work in social media, Presenter

2013, March 19, Rubin Forum, School of History, Tel Aviv University, Technology discourse from Ford to Google: Transformations in capitalist legitimation, Invited speaker

2012, May 2-4, Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media, The Fourth ICTs and Society Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden, How less alienation creates more exploitation? Sociological insights from new media, Presenter

2012, March 15, Colloquium of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Work and technology in the discourse of digital capitalism, Invited speaker

2012, February 24-25, Power, Rhetoric, and Political Culture: The Texture of Political Action, Northwestern University, Illinois, US, Flexibility at work: technology, ideology, and labor in contemporary capitalism, Workshop participant

2012, February 8-10, Control's Other Side, the 4th Interdisciplinary Annual Seminar of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Germany, Disorganized order: Networks as technology and metaphor for the market economy, Presenter

2012, January 23, Protest in the Network Society, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, A Tenured Bohemian: The Creative Class and the Return of the Social Critique, Presenter

2012, January 1, Colloquium of the Graduate Program of Science, Technology and Society, Bar-Ilan University, The spirit of networks: The discourse on work in digital capitalism, Invited speaker

2011, December 21, Colloquium of the Department of communication, College of Emek Izrael, The discourse on work in the digital age, Invited speaker

2011, November 20, Honors Forum, Sapir College, Labor in the network society, Invited speaker

2011, July 13-17, The annual International Association for Media and Communication Research conference, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Prosumption in the digital age: Towards a political economy of participatory culture, Presenter

2011, June 30, Social science colloquium at Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Technology, ideology, and capitalism in the digital age, Invited speaker

2011, April 7-9, The First conference of the COST Action IS0906:
Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, University of Zagreb, Old theories, new methodologies: Investigating the political economy of Web 2.0, presenter

2011, March 2, Seminar on Interactive Experience as Marketing Tool, School of Communication, College of Management-Academic Studies, Facebook as playground and as factory: The political economy of social networks, Invited speaker

2011, February, 7-8, The annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, Internet as media and technology: What sociology and communication studies can learn from each other?, Presenter

2010, December 21, Colloquium of the Department of Communication, Haifa University, Capitalism in the digital age, Invited speaker

2010, November 23, Colloquium of the Department of Communication, The Hebrew University, Trapped in the net: The digital discourse and the new capitalism, Invited speaker

2010, November 22, Colloquium of the School of Government and Society, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College, The new terrain of digital capitalism, Invited speaker

2010, May 5, Reflections on the Network Society, conference of the General and Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Network Society as Risk Society, Invited speaker

2010, February 26, Colloquium of the Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Exploitation, alienation and technological change: Work in digital capitalism, Invited speaker

2010, January 7, Colloquium of the Department of Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University, From safety net to the internet: network technology and capitalist legitimation, Invited speaker

2009, December 28, Colloquium of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, The spirit of network: Network technology and the new capitalism, Invited speaker

2009, December 22, Colloquium of the School for Communication, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Technology discourse and the legitimation of capitalism, Invited speaker

2009, October 7, Critical Internet Theory Workshop, Association of Internet Researchers, “Critical: Internet”, Milwaukee WI, USA, October 7, Internet and New Capitalism, Workshop participant

2009, October 8-11, The 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, “Critical: Internet”, Milwaukee WI, USA, Critique of Technology Discourse: Towards a Critical Theory of the Internet, Presenter

2008, September 5-8, First International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, Digital De-Alienation: Information technology, Work, and The New Spirit of Capitalism, Presenter

2008, July 21, Colloquium of the Department of Human Services, Haifa University, From safety net to the internet: Technology, work, and the spirit of networks, Invited speaker

2007, September 5-7, Conference of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change: “Re-Thinking Cultural Economy”, University of Manchester, England, From the Bureaucrat to the Digerati: Work, Technology, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, Presenter

2006, August 10-14, The 101st annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal, Canada, ’Upgrading’ Market Legitimation: Revisiting Habermas’s ‘Technology as Ideology’ in Neoliberal Times, Presenter

2001, May 15-17, Annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Washington DC, Historiography and Post-Nationalism in Israel, Presenter

2019, October 23-25, Algorithmic Knowledge in Culture and in the Media, International workshop, Algorithms, Organizer

2019, May 21-22, Algorithmic spaces
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Algorithmic spatiality, Co-organizer

2018, September 3-5, Regulation and algorithmic culture: Challenges and future prospects, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Algorithmic culture, Co-organizer

2018, June 3-5, Algorithms in culture/ Algorithms as culture, The Open University of Israel, Algorithmic culture, Co-organizer and host

2018, March 21-23, Algorithmic Software Culture: Capturing, Theorizing, and Regulating Social Media, Bilgy University, Turkey, Algorithmic culture, Co-organizer

2016, April 17, 20th annual conference of the Israeli Communication Association, Kinneret College, Communication, Organizing Committee Member

2016, March 21-23, Workshop on The Passions of Capitalism: Subjectivity in Production and the Production of Subjectivity in Contemporary Capitalism, COST Action on Virtual Labour, University of Pavia, Italy, Subjectivity in capitalism, Co-organizer

2015, April 1, 19th annual conference of the Israeli Communication Association, The Open University, Communication, Organizing Committee Member and host

2014, June 15-17, International seminar on the labour theory of value in the digital age, COST Action on Virtual Labour, The Open University of Israel, Labour theory and digital technology, Co-organizer and host

2014, April 8, 18th annual conference of the Israeli Communication Association, Netanya College, Communication, Organizing Committee Member

2012, January 23, Protest in the Network Society, conference of the Interdisciplinary Program, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Network politics, Co-organizer

  • 2013-2019 - Digital journalism workshop - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-2019 - Radio workshop - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-2019 - Public relations workshop - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-2019 - Democracy-media relations - BA - Academic supervisor
  •  - Communication: technology, society, culture - BA - Academic supervisor 2013-2019
  • 2013-2019 - Culture, media and leisure in Israel - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-2016 - Television documentary workshop - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-2019 - Classic of communication studies - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-2017 - Digital video editing workshop - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-2019 - Communication discourse - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2018-2019 - Departmental Honor's Seminar - BA - Academic supervisor, Instructor, Coordinator
  • 2020-present - Digitality in culture and everyday life - BA - Academic supervisor
  • 2013-present - Democracy and media - MA - Academic supervisor
  • Talya Osher - Feminist conceptions in marketing - MA - Open University - Dana Kachtan - In Progress
  • Norma Musih - Digital spatiality  - Post-doctorate  - Open University - In progress
  • Laurance Barry - Algorithmic self - Post-doctorate - Open University - 2019
  • Omer Keynan - Doctorate - Department of Science and Technology Studies, Bar Ilan University - Prof. Noah Efron - 2019
  • Noa Suzanna Morag - Algorithmic self - MA - Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University - Prof. Shira Dvir-Gvirzman - In progress
  • Ben Fisher - Unionizing of hi-tech workers - MA - Global Labor University, University of Kassel / Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany - Prof. Martina Sproll - 2018
  • Sharon Rothschild - Media discourse of the economy - MA - Cultural studies, The Open University - 2015
  • Shahar Fisher - Changing cultural meaning of "home" - MA - Cultural studies, The Open University - Dr. Tamar Berger - 2018
  • Sasha Stekhov - Political campaign on social networking sites - MA - Department of Communication, Ben Gurion University - Prof. Zvi Reich - 2014