Dr. Aya Yadlin

Email
aya.yadlin@biu.ac.il
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Dr. Aya Yadlin’s research and teaching focus on the meeting place of culture, politics, and new media. Yadlin’s research projects critically explore the role online media platforms and formats (social networking sites, digital radio, memes, selfies, hashtags, mobile applications and more) play in our postmodern lives by focusing on processes of identity construction and cultural negotiations in global contexts.

 

Education

2013-2017: Ph.D., Communication

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX – Department of Communication

Dissertation Title: ‘Online Homelands’–Israeli-Persian Identity Between the Online and the Offline 

 

2008-2011: M.A., Communication (Graduation with Distinction)

University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel – Department of Communication

 

2005-2008: B.A., Communication (Summa Cum Laude)

Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel – School of Communication

 

Academic Appointments 

2023-Present: Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, School of Communication

 

2020-2023: Senior Lecturer, Hadassah Academic College, Department of Politics and Communication

 

2017-2020: Lecturer, Hadassah Academic College, Department of Politics and Communication

                    

2017-2018: Institutional Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Haifa, Department of Communication

 

2013-2017: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor, Texas A&M University, Department of Communication

Research
  • Digital Media Studies
  • Internet Culture
  • Digital Research Methods
  • Media and Culture
  • Media and Minorities
Courses
  • Digital Identities: Challenges in the Post-truth Era
  • Digital Identities: Concepts and Models
  • Audiences Online: Tools and Trends
  • Digital Culture
Publications

Journal Articles

Yadlin, A., & Klein-Shagrir, O. (In print, 2024). Public Service Media Diversity in the Digital Media Landscape: Opportunities and Limitations for Social Justice. Studies in Social Justice.

Yadlin, A.,  & Marciano, A. (In print, 2024). Media Coverage of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance as a Non-Commemorative site of Nazi Germany and Holocaust Remembrance. Jewish Film and New Media.

Yadlin, A.,  & Marciano, A. (2022). COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control. Mobile Media and Communication. [View Full Article]

Yadlin, A. (2022). Negotiating the Past Online: Holocaust Commemoration Between Iran and Israel. Information & Culture, 57(1), 46-62. [View Full Article]

Marciano, A.,  & Yadlin, A. (2021). Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis. Media Culture and Society. [View Full Article]

Yadlin, A.,  & Klein-Shagrir, O. (2021). “One Big Fake News”: Misinformation at the Intersection of User-based and Legacy Media. International Journal of Communication, 15, 2528–2546. [View Full Article]

 Yadlin-Segal, A. (2021). Articulating Persian Identities between Iran and Israel: On Nationality, Diasporas, and Lived Ethnicities in Online Media. Nations and Nationalism, 27(2), 347-362. [View Full Article]

 Yadlin-Segal A.,  & Oppenheim, Y. (2020). Whose Dystopia is it Anyway? Deepfake Technology and Social Media Regulation. Convergence – The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27(1), 36-51. [View Full Article]

 Yadlin-Segal, A., Tsuria, R.,  & Bellar, W. (2020). The Ethics of Studying Digital Contexts: Reflections from three empirical case studies. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2, 168-178. [View Full Article]

 Yadlin-Segal, A. (2018). What’s in a Smile? Politicizing Disability through Selfies and Affect. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 24(1), 36-50. [View Full Article]

 Yadlin-Segal, A. (2017). Constructing National Identity Online - The Case Study of #IranJeans on Twitter. International Journal of Communication, 11, 2760–2783. [View Full Article]

 Yadlin-Segal, A. (2017). ‘It Happened Before and it will Happen Again’: Online User Comments as a Non-Commemorative Site of Holocaust Remembrance. Jewish Film and New Media, 5(1), 24–47. [View Full Article]

 Tsuria, R., Yadlin-Segal, A., Vitullo, A.,  & Campbell, H. (2017). Approaches to Digital Methods in Studies of Digital Religion. The Communication Review, 20(2), 73-97. [View Full Article]

 Ramasubramanian, S.,  & Yadlin-Segal, A. (2016). Building Meaningful Cross-Sector Partnerships for Children and Media Initiatives: A Conversation Café with Scholars and Activists from around the World. Journal of Children and Media, 10(2), 216-224. [View Full Article]

 Yadlin-Segal, A.,  & Meyers, O. (2014). “Like birds returning to their nest”: Immigration Narratives and Ideological Constructions in Early Israeli Children Magazines. Journalism History, 40(3), 158-166. [View Full Article]

 Bellar, W., Campbell, H.A., Cho, J., Terry, A., Tsuria, R., Yadlin-Segal, A.,  & Ziemer, J. (2013). Reading Religion in Internet Memes. Journal of Religion, Media & Digital Culture, 2(2). [View Full Article]

 Yadlin, A. (2012). Immigration Narratives in 1950s Israeli Children’s Newspapers; A brief review. Kesher: Journal for Jewish Communication and Journalism Studies, 43, 151-152 (In Hebrew). [View Full Article]

 

Book Chapters

Tsuria, R., & Yadlin-Segal, A. (2021). Global Media, Power, and Digital Religion. In: S. Ward (Ed.). Handbook of Global Media Ethics. USA: Springer Publications.

Yadlin-Segal, A. (2015). Communicating Identity through Religious Internet Memes in the "Tweeting Orthodoxies" Facebook Page. In H. Campbell (Ed.), Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture (pp. 110-124). Routledge. [View Full Chapter]

 

Journal Articles Reprinted as Book Chapters 

Ramasubramanian, S.,  & Yadlin-Segal, A. (2017). Building Meaningful Cross-Sector Partnerships for Children and Media Initiatives: A Conversation Café with Scholars and Activists from around the World. Children, Adolescents, and Media: The Future of Research and Action. Routledge.

 

Encyclopaedia Entries

Ramasubramanian, S.,  & Yadlin-Segal, A. (2017). Media Influence on Stigma. The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects (pp. 1933-1940). Wiley Blackwell-ICA. [View Full Entry]

Tsuria, R.,  & Yadlin-Segal, A. (2017). Israel. Online around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Apps. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. [View Full Entry]

La Pastina, A.,  & Yadlin-Segal, A. (2016). Ethnography.  International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy (pp. 638-643). Wiley Blackwell-ICA. [View Full Entry]

 

Book Reviews

Yadlin-Segal, A. (2020). Review: Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity/Williams, Tsuria, and Robinson (Eds.). Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 9(1), 137-139. [View Full Review]

Yadlin-Segal, A. (2016). Phoebe H. Li, A Virtual Chinatown: The Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand. H. International Journal of Communication, 10, 1882-1885. [View Full Review]

 

Reports     

Yadlin, A., & Klein-Shagrir, O. (2023). Attack on the Israeli Public Broadcasting

Corporation: False Claims and Mistaken Motivations. Zulat Equality and Human Rights. [View Full Report, Hebrew] [View Full Report, English]

Last Updated Date : 07/01/2024