Prof. Chaim Noy

Email
chaim.noy@biu.ac.il
Personal Website
http://www.chaimnoy.com
CV


Chaim Noy is a Professor at the School of Communication, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002). After receiving the Rothschild (Yad-Hanadiv) Ginsberg Postdoctoral Fellowships, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Sapir College, Israel. After a Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (2011-2012), Noy took a tenured, Associate Professor position at the Department of Communication, University of South Florida. He returned to Israel in 2015, and worked for three years at Ashkelon Academic College (2015-2018).

Noy has publishes in the fields of Media and Communication Studies, Language and Social Interaction, Israeli Studies and Jewish Studies, Tourism and Museum Studies. His studies employ qualitative and critical methodologies, with an emphasis on ethnographic approaches to language, technology, and culture. 

Noy won international Awards, Grants, Fellowships,  and serves as an Editorial Board Member of leading journals and professional organizations in his fields of study, including (but not limited to): the International Communication Association (ICA), the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA), the Israeli Communication Association, the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies (ICQM), Annals of Tourism Research, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Narrative Works, and Qualitative Psychology. He served as the Chairperson of the Israeli Communication Association (2018-2021), and since 2021 is the Chair of the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University.

Research

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS 

  • Communication, Language, and Discourse: Participatory public sphere, mediation and sites of heritage and commemoration, and performative approaches
     
  • Medium Theory: New and old media ecologies and affordances, the digital divide
     
  • Methodology: Ethnography of Communication (EC), the qualitative paradigm in Communication Studies and beyond
Courses

COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

Undergraduate:

Bar-Ilan University

  • New Media, New Language?
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Travel Narratives in the Digital Age (seminar class)
  • Israeli Backpackers: A Century of Wanderings

Ashkelon Academic College

  • Travel Narratives across the Digital Divide (seminar class)
  • Museums in Urban Environments (pro-seminar class)
  • Introduction: The Sociology and Anthropology of Travel and Tourism
  • Qualitative Research Methods in Tourism Studies
  • Israeli Backpacking: Comparative Perspectives 

University of South Florida

  • Language and Mobile Communication
  • Communication, Tourism and Travel

University of Pennsylvania

  • Masculinities in Israeli Culture and Society. Department of Sociology and  

                Department of Jewish Studies             

Sapir College

  • Ethnicity and its Images in Israeli Society
  • Discourse, Culture and Society: An Introduction
  • Politics of Identity in Israel
  • Israeli Society: A Sociological Introduction
  • Tourists and Backpackers: Critical Reflections
  • Discourse and Embodiment of Israeli Masculinities

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Speaking Masculinity: Narratives of Masculinity in Conversation and

                Discourse in Israeli Culture. Department of Communication

  • Language and Ritual: Local Reflections. Department of Sociology &   

               Anthropology

  • Student’s advisor for qualitative research. Department of Psychology

  • Academic Writing for Undergraduates. Co-led seminar with Professor Ze’ev

                Klein. Department of Psychology

  • Introduction to Personality Theory. Teaching fellow. Department of

               Psychology

Haifa University

  • Tourism, Culture & Identity: The Case of Israeli Backpacking. Department of

                Geography

     

Graduate courses:

M.A.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Sociology of Tourism. Department of Sociology & Anthropology

M.A. and Ph.D.

Haifa University

  • Performing Masculinity: Men’s Speech and Narrative. Department of

                Communication

  • Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods. Department of Geography

Ph.D.

University of South Florida

  • Advanced Ethnography
  • Ethnography of Communication
Publications

BOOKS (as author)

  1. Noy, C. (2007). Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN: 9780814331767  256 pages
     
  2. Noy, C. (2015). Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199398980 304 pages
     

BOOKS (as editor)

  • Noy, C. and Cohen, E. (Eds.), (2005). Israeli Backpackers: From Tourism to a Rite of Passage. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. ISBN10: 0-7914-6497-0 268 pages
     

SPECIAL ISSUES (as editor)

  • McIlvenny, P. and Noy, C. (2011). Co-edited Special Issue of Social Semiotics, 21(2), titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Spaces of Multimodal Discourse.”
     

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  1. Schiff, B., and Noy, C. (2005). “Making it Personal: The Social Character of Life Stories.” In Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin & Michael Bamberg (eds.), Discursive Construction of Identities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 114-143.
     
  2. Noy, C., and Cohen, E. (2005). “Introduction: Backpacking as a Rite of Passage in Israel.” In Chaim Noy & Eric Cohen (eds.) Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View from Afar. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. Pp. 1-44.
     
  3. Noy, C. (2005). “Israeli Backpackers: Narrative, Interpersonal Communication, and Social Construction.” In Chaim Noy & Eric Cohen (eds.) Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View from Afar. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. Pp. 111-158.
     
  4. Noy, C. (2007). “The language(s) of the Tourist Experience: An Autoethnography of the Poetic Tourist.” In Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, and Annette Pritchard (eds.), The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Innovative Research Methodologies. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publications. Pp. 349-370.
     
  5. Noy, C. (2007). “Traveling (for) masculinity: Bodies/spaces in Israeli backpackers’ narratives,” in Annette Pritchard, Irena Ateljevic, and Nigel Morgan (eds.), Tourism & Gender: Embodiment, Sensuality, and Experience. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. Pp. 47-72.
     
  6. Noy, C. (2008). “Israeliness Outside-In: Backpacking and Contemporaries identities in Israel,” in Gisela Dachs (ed.), Judischer Almanach. Leo Baeck Instituts: Frankfurt am Main. Pp. 145-150 [in German]
     
  7. Noy, C. (2009). “On Driving a Car and Being a Family: A Reflexive Ethnography,” in Phillip Vannini (ed.), Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches. N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing. Pp. 101-113.
     
  8. Noy, C. (2009). “The Authentication of Discourse in Commemorative Visitor Books in Israel,” in Phillip Vannini and Phillip Williams (eds.), Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society. London: Ashgate. Pp. 219-240.
     
  9. Noy, C. (2010). “Touristic Paradises: A Critical Rendering of Modern Vacationscapes,” in Rachel Elior (ed.), A Garden Eastward in Eden Traditions of Paradise. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press. Pp. 395-409 [in Hebrew]
     
  10. Noy, C. (2011). “The Semiotics of (Im)mobilities: Two Discursive Case Studies of the System of Automobility,” in Giuseppina Pellegrino (ed.), The Politics of Proximity: Mobility and Immobility in Practice. London: Ashgate. Pp. 61-81.
     
  11. Noy, C. (2011). “Commodified Imagined Spaces: A few Critical Remarks on Tourism’s (in)visibilities,” in Arnon Soffer, Jacob, O. Maoz, and Ronit Cohen-Seffer (eds.), Cultural Landscape Patterns: Festschrift in honor of Prof. Yoram Bar-Gal. Haifa University Press, Haifa. Pp. 221-232 [in Hebrew].
     
  12. Noy, C. (2012). “Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Contesting a Tourist Site in Jerusalem,” in Jacqueline Tivers and Tijana Rakić (eds.), Narratives of Travel and Tourism. London: Ashgate. Pp. 135-150. 
     
  13. Noy, C. (2012). “The Political Ends of Tourism: Voices and Narratives of Silwan/the City of David in East Jerusalem,” in Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, and Annette Pritchard (eds.), The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Creating an Academy of Hope. 2nd Ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publications. Pp. 27-41.
     
  14. Noy, C. (2013). Peace Activism in Tourism: Two Case Studies (and a Few Reflections) in Jerusalem, in Blanchard, L., & F. Higgins-Desbiolles (eds.). Peace through Tourism: Promoting Human Security through International Citizenship. New York: Routledge. Pp. 204-216
     
  15. Noy, C. (2013). “Teaching the Fundamentals of Qualitative Research: Insights from a Qualitative Martial Art,” in Teaching Qualitative Research: Challenges, Principles, Application, Orit Hazzan & Liora Notov (eds.), Tel-Aviv: The Mofet Institute Publications. Pp. 269-296 [in Hebrew].
     

RECENT ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  1. Schreiber, M.,s and Noy, C. (2025). “Google Maps Review sub-platform: A narrative view of design, affordances, and user activity.” New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251378988 with postdoctoral student

  2. Noy, C. (2024). “‘I repeatedly tell you, the future is yours – the righteous, not the liars’: Hope in Saleh Diab’s political speeches in East Jerusalem.” Language in Society, 53(5): 857-879. doi:10.1017/S0047404524000940

  3. Noy, C. (2024). “Now is not the time (ze lo hazman).” Israel Studies in Language and Society, 19: 59-64. [Hebrew]

  4. Druker Shitrit, Ss., and Noy, C. (2024). “‘Come support the locals!’: Mediating peripheral spaces on Google Maps via user generated content.” Convergence, 30(6): 2233-2250. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231200827 with graduate student

  5. Noy, C. (2023). “Communicative space on TikTok: An analysis of the Israeli trend.” Media Frames, 23: 81-109. https://doi.org/10.57583/MF.2023.23.10031 [Hebrew]

  6. Druker Shitrit, Ss., and Noy, C. (2023). “‘United we stand’: Prosumer-generated content and social resilience on Google Maps.” Media Frames, 23: 13-38. https://doi.org/10.57583/MF.2023.23.10029 [Hebrew] with graduate student

  7. Noy, C. (2023). “‘OK guys, thank you for coming today’: Indexicality and utterance events in political speeches in Sheikh Jarrah.” Journal of Sociolinguistics, 27: 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12619

  8. Navon, S., and Noy, C. (2023). “Like, Share, and Remember: Facebook Memorial Pages as Social Capital Resources.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac021 with graduate student

  9. Noy, C. (2022). “Polemic polyphony: Voices of the fools and the righteous in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem.” Pragmatics & Society, 13(5): 815-836. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.21023.noy

  10. Navon, S., and Noy, C. (2021). “Conceptualizing social media sub-platforms: The case of mourning and memorialization practices on Facebook.” New Media & Society, 25(11): 2898-2917. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211035769  With graduate student

  11. Noy, C. (2022). “Theorizing comment books as historical sources: Towards a performative and interpretive framework.” Studies in Travel Writing, 25(3): 235-255. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2022.2086581

  12. Noy, C. (2021). “Museum audience’s texts: Towards a conceptual and contextual reading.” Visitor Studies, 24(1): 38-57. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10645578.2020.1865090

  13. Noy, C. (2021). “Narrative affordances: Audience participation in museum narration in two history museums.” Narrative Inquiry, 31(2): 287-310. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.19121.noy

  14. Noy, C. (2020). “Gestures of closure: A small stories approach to museumgoers’ texts.” Text & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies, 40(6): 733–753. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-2076

  15. Noy, C. (2020). “Voices on display: Handwriting, paper, and authenticity, from museums to social network sites.” Convergence, 26(5-6): 1315-1332. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1354856519880141

Media

“My Heart is in the East, But My Body is in the Far East: A Look at the Impact of Post-Army Travel w/ Professor Chaim Noy.” Sababoosh Podcast (Season 3 Finale).


2025 IJSRM Board Meeting Social Media Interview – Chaim Noy. Written interview about qualitative methodology at the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 

Last Updated Date : 20/11/2025