Dafna Lemish is an Israeli media researcher in the fields of children, youth and leisure culture; as well as construction of gender identity in the media.
Dafna Lemish | |
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 Lemish in July 2022 | |
| Born | September 26, 1951 Haifa, Israel |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University (BA) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA) Ohio State University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Media studies Social science |
| Institutions | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| Thesis | Viewing television in public places : an ethnography[1] (1982) |
She is the Interim Dean and Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[2] She is also the founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media.[3] Lemish is a fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA).[4]
Biography
editDafna Lemish was born in Haifa. She worked at Oranim Academic College teaching media literacy, and later directed the non-profit Institute for the Research of Media and the Family in Jerusalem.[5] From 1990-1996, she was a senior lecturer at The New School of Media Studies, Academic College of Management. In 1995, she moved to Tel Aviv University, as part of the founding team of the Department of Communication, where she taught until 2010 and served as chair for five years.[6]
In 2010, she accepted a position as chair of the Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media at Southern Illinois University, later becoming the Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts.[7]
Awards and recognition
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References
edit- ^ "OSU Library Catalog". osu.edu. Ohio State University. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
- ^ https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/news/dafna-lemish-lead-school-communication-and-information-interim-dean
- ^ "Jordan Named Co-Editor of Journal of Children and Media | Annenberg School for Communication". www.asc.upenn.edu. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ^ https://www.icahdq.org/page/Fellows
- ^ "Dafna Lemish | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ^ "Tel Aviv University Rector – The Rector's List of Outstanding Teachers". www.tau.ac.il. Archived from the original on February 15, 2005. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
- ^ "Digital Media and Developing Minds". Cvent. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ^ "Children, Adolescents and the Media – Past winners". cam.icahdq.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
- ^ "International Communication Association – Fellows". www.icahdq.org. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.