Prof. Motti Neiger

Doctoral Dissertation

Neiger, M. (2000).  The Literary Supplements and the Shaping of Israeli Culture:  The Literary Supplements in the Israeli Press (1948-1995), 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.  

Authored Books

Meyers, O. ^PI, Zandberg, E. ^PI &, Neiger, M. ^PI (2014). Communicating Awe: Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration.  London: Palgrave Macmillan.  The book is part of the "Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series" (Series editors: Andrew Hoskins and John Sutton).

Neiger M. (2017).  Publishers as Culture Mediators: The Cultural History of Hebrew Publishing in Israel (1910-2010).  Jerusalem: MN Publishing (ISBN: 978-965-91977-0-5), 702 pp. [in Hebrew] [Link to the whole book]  

Awarded – Best Academic Book in Media Studies 2019 (Awarded by the Israel Communication Association); Mentions - Prof. Israel Bartal (former Dean of Humanities, Hebrew U.) opening remarks on the book before its presentation at the Hebrew Literature Dep. colloquium as the respondent and moderator of the presentation; Reviews: Prof. Rafi Mann (Ariel U.) - review of the book (journal: Media Frames, 2019); Prof. Uzi Eliada (Haifa U.) - review of the book. 

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]

Neiger, M., Meyers, O., & Zandberg, E.  (Eds.) (2011). On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age.  London: Palgrave Macmillan.  The volume is part of the "Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series" (Series editors: Andrew Hoskins and John Sutton).   

Reviews: A. Christine Lohmeier's review in Media, Culture & Society; B. Ingrid Volkmer's review in Journal of Communication; C. Hilde Van Den Bulck's review in Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; D. Debi Withers' review in Memory Studies; E.  Robert E. Gutsche's review in Journal of Communication Inquiry; F. Amanda Lagerkvist's review in Nordicom-Information (in Swedish)

Chapters in Books

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.  & Neiger, M.  (2007). To talk and to talkback: The rhetoric of the Talk-Back in Israeli online newspapers.  In T. Altshuler (Ed.).  Journalism dot com: online newspapers in Israel (pp. 321-350).  Jerusalem: The Israeli Democratic Institute.  [Citations=31].
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 (pp. 41-60).  Jerusalem: Magnes & Smart Institute, Hebrew University.  [In Hebrew]
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 (pp. 227-245).  Jerusalem: The World Union of Jewish Studies.  [In Hebrew]
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 (pp. 123-136). NY: Nova Science Publishers.
7. Neiger, M. (2010).  The trends and the impact of the book's bestseller list. In: Kasel, L. and Hakak Y. (Eds.). The limits of quantifications: Critical perspectives on measuring and grading people, their behaviors and achievements (pp. 247-263).  Beer-Sheva: The Ben-Gurion University and the Israeli Association for Qualitative Research Methods.  [in Hebrew].
8. Neiger, M., Meyers, O. , Zandberg, E. (2011). On media memory - an introduction. In: Neiger, M., Meyers, O., Zandberg, E. (Eds.). On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age (pp. 1-24).  London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Citations=110]
9. Neiger, M., Meyers, O., Zandberg, E. (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 (pp. 156-174).  London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Cit.=23]
10. Neiger, M.,  Zandberg, E., & Meyers, O. (2014). "Reversed memory": Journalistic work between traumatic past and triumphal present. In Zelizer B. & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (Eds.). Journalism & Memory.  London: Palgrave Macmillan.  [important collection featuring leading scholars in journalism and collective memory.  Cit=31].
11. Neiger, M. (2015).  Regimenting the agenda – An insider perspective from the Israel Broadcasting Authority Ethics Committee" in N. Elias, Z. Reich, G.  Nimrod & A.Schejter (Eds.).  Media in Transition.  Tel-Aviv: Tsivonim. [in Hebrew].
12. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. & Neiger, M. (2019). “The Past, Present, and Future of Journalism and Memory” in Wahl-Jorgensen, K. & T. Hanitzsch (eds.) The Handbook of Journalism Studies.  Routledge.
13. Neiger, M., Berger-Tikochinski, T., Yaler-Tsuria, A. & Manny-Ikan, E. (2020). Walking in someone else's shoes: Virtual reality as a tool for empathy and engagement in social skills education.  In: Blau, I., Caspi, A., Eshet-Alkaley, Y., et al. (Eds.), Learning in the Digital Era (pp. 81-91).  Ra'anana: Open University, Chais center for the study of innovation and learning technologies.  [in Hebrew]
14. Neiger, M., (2022).  Israel's Media Landscape: Democratic Practice, Constrained Environment.  In P.R. Kumaraswamy (Ed.), Palgrave International Handbook on Israel.  London: Palgrave Macmillan. 
15. Neiger, M. & Neiger-Fleischmann M. (2023, forthcoming), "A Digital Safe Haven: Six Functions of Social Media for Second-Generation Holocaust-Survivors." In Baumel-Schwartz J.  and A. Shrira (Eds.). Unto Your Children and Your Children's Children – A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Offspring of Holocaust Survivors.  The Finkler Institute for Holocaust Research and Routledge.  Main Contributor

Articles in Refereed Journals 

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. (2003). The secular holy scriptures: The role of the holiday 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.  Communications - The European Journal of Communication, 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 1990 .  Hebrew Studies, 45, 119-131.
5. Zandberg, E. and Neiger, M. (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.  & Zandberg, E. (2009). Songs to Remember: Popular Culture, Collective Memory and Radio Broadcasts on Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism. Megamot, 46(1-2): 254-280. [in Hebrew]  
9. Meyers, O., Zandberg, E. & Neiger, M. (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. , Zandberg, E., & Meyers, O. (2010).  Communicating critique: Towards a conceptualization of journalistic criticism.  Communication, Culture and Critique, 3(3): 377-395.
11. Neiger, M. & Abdulahib, N, (2011). The publishing experience: Examining books and internet literary sites publishing processes from the writers' point-of-view.  Kesher, 41: 54-64.  [in Hebrew]
12. Neiger, M. & Rimmer-Tsory, K (2011). Nationalism and war representations in Israel's newspaper during the Second Lebanon War in 2006.  Israel Studies in Language and Society.  3(2): 86-113 [in Hebrew].
13. Neiger, M., Zandberg, E.  & Meyers, O. (2011). Tuned to the nation's mood: Popular music as a mnemonic cultural object.  Media, Culture & Society.  33(7): 971-987.
14. Meyers, O, Neiger, M & Zandberg, E (2011). Structuring the sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory.  Communication Review, 14(3): 123-144.
15. Zandberg, E., Neiger, M. & Meyers, O.  (2011). 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. & 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. & Neiger, M.  (2015). Print is Futur; Onlinee is Past: Cross-Media Analysis of Temporal Orientations in the News. Communication Research, 42(8): 1047-1067.
19. Neiger, M. & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2016). Understanding Journalism through a Nuanced Deconstruction of Temporal Layers in News Narratives.  Journal of Communication, 66(1): 139-160.
20. Neiger, M. (2017).  Media role in Shaping Shared Futures.  Israel Studies in Language and Society.  9(2): 142-163.
21. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., & Neiger, M. (2018). Temporal affordances in the news.  Journalism, 19(1), 37-55.
22. Neiger, M. (2020).  Theorizing Media Memory: Six Elements Defining the Role of the Media in Shaping Collective Memory in the Digital Age.  Sociology Compass.  14(5).
23. Neiger, M., Meyers, O., & Ben-David, A. (Forthcoming, 2023).  Tweeting the Holocaust: Social media discourse between reverence, exploitation, and simulacra.  Journal of Communication.  Special issue – The good, the bad, and the ugly of social media.

Entries in Academic Encyclopedias 

1. Neiger M. (2022).  "Time in Journalism." In. G.A. Borchard (Ed).  Encyclopedia of Journalism (pp. 1640-1642).  Thousand Oaks: Sage.  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781544391199.n409
2. Neiger, M. (2023, forthcoming).  "Book Production in Israel." In Emile Schrijver (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures, Amsterdam: Brill.                

Monographs and Research Reports

1. Neiger M., Zandberg, E., & Abu-Raya, I. (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.  & Josman, A. (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., Zandberg, E. & Meyers M. (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., Zandberg, E. & Meyers M. (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]

Other Academic Publications

1. Neiger, M. (1993).  The mother, the son, and the spirit of postmodernism. Efes-Shtaim, 2, 128-134. [in Hebrew, Editor: Yiegal Schwrtz]
2. Neiger M. (2002).  Fantasy discourse, the media, and the second Intifada.  Panim, 23, 45-52.
3. Neiger M. (2003).  The literary supplement as a ritual.  Panim, 27, 12-22.
4. Neiger, M. (2005).  The Battlefield of Images: The TV reality show "The Ambassador" (HaSagrir) and Israeli myths.  Panim, 31, 75-80.
5. Neiger, M (2008, January).  The plurality of culture: Poetry in the media.  Society, Poetry, Place (online journal), Issue number 28.
6. 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.
7. 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.