Hebrew Online , Modern Hebrew book series edited by Ruvik Rosenthal, 2011. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing (Hebrew). Co-authored with Illan Gonen.

Papers

“So Fun, Muy Kef: Lexical Glocalization in Israeli Girls’ Blogs”, Israel Studies in Language and Society (Accepted). Download.

“Public Media Meets the Online Workers’ Union: The Roles and Influence of Political Blogs in Israel”, Megamot 46(1), 2009: 222-253. Download (Hebrew).

“Design & Play: Weblog Genres of Adolescent Girls in Israel“, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 6.4. (Special issue on Blogging, November 2006).

“Dear Diary” Panim 33, 2005: 23-29. (Hebrew)

“Whose Blog Is It Anyway?” Panim 30, 2004: 46-54. (Hebrew)

Book Chapters

“Pretty in Pink and Pretty in Black: Gendered Communities of Practice on Israeli Girls’ Blogs” in:  Lev On, A. (Ed.), Communities Online, Pardes Publishing (Forthcoming). Download draft version in Hebrew.

“The Design Industry: Digital Creative Productivity on Israeli Girls’ Blogs” in: Tirosh, Y., Kazin, O., Olmert, D. and Brayer, R. (eds.) Capitalism and Gender. The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Accepted).

“Performing Girlhood through Typographic play in Hebrew Blogs” in: Thurlow, C. and Mroczek, K. (eds.) Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media. Oxford Series in Sociolinguistics, 2011. Download draft chapter.

“Blogging as Public Property Media: Defining the Roles and Assessing the Influence of Political Blogging in Israel” in: Russell A. and Echchaibi, N. (eds.) International Blogging. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. pp.111-132. Download.

Doctoral dissertation

“Israeli Girls and Digital Subcultures: Gender, Language and Playfulness on Blogs”, Doctoral dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, September 2010. Download (Hebrew).
*Download English Summary.
*Visit “Doctor Blog” (Hebrew) – the archive of the real time interactive field-notes within the researched community.
*Watch Appendix 2 – a video collage of girls’ interviews.

“Girls do Digital Culture: Gender, Language and Playfulness on Blogs” (closing keynote),On Being a Girl : Academic Conference, 6 June 2010, Bat-Yam, Israel.

“From Gothic Novels to Gothic Blogs: Performing the Mundane through Gothic Narrative and Iconography Online”, Western Canons in the digital Era International Research Workshop, 2 June 2010, Tel Aviv University. Watch video.

“Bloggers as Opinion Leaders: Ethnography of Influencing Networked Publics”, Israeli Communication Association Conference, 25 March 2010, IDC (Inter-Disciplinary Center), Herzeliya.

“Doctor Blog: Blogged Fieldnotes as Performance”,  The 4th Israeli Conference for Qualitative Research, 17 February 2010, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva.

“Code is Cue: Blogging as Solo Performance”, Commemorative panel in honor of the late Professor Brenda Danet,  IR10, Annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Milwaukee,  10 October 2009.  Watch video.

“Bloggers as Opinion Leaders: Ethnography of Influencing Networked Publics”, IR10, Annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Milwaukee,  10 October 2009.  Watch video.

“Performing Subculture through Orthography: Gender and Language on Hebrew-Language Adolescent Blogs“, Language in the New Media Conference, 4 September 2009, University of Washington, Seattle.

“The Fakatsa and the Freak: Performance of Feminine Stereotypes on Israeli Girls’ Blogs”, Israeli Communication Association Conference, 5 April 2009, Emek-Izrael Academic College.

“The Medium is the Message: Internet as a tool for the Expansion of Consciousness”,The First Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Spiritualities, 23 March 2009, University of Haifa. Watch video (Hebrew).

“Subjective Privacy: Youth’s Privacy Strategies for Online Public Spaces”, Psychology Online Conference: Israeli Psychology Association, 19 June 2008, IDC (Inter-Disciplinary Center), Herzeliya.

“Writing, Design and Performance on Israeli Girls’ Blogs”, The Annual Conference for Internet Research Students, Netvision Institute for Internet Studies, 27 May 2008, Tel Aviv University.

“Public Media Meets the Online Workers’ Union: The Roles and Influence of Political Blogs in Israel”, Israeli Communication Association conference, 13 April 2008, College of Management, Tel Aviv. Watch video (Hebrew).

“Second Sex: Feminine and Masculine Representations of Sexuality on Second Life”, Fantasy and Science Fiction in the Third Millennium Academic Conference, 19 March 2008, Bar Ilan University.

“The Performance of Gender Identity among Israeli Girls on Blogs”, Israeli Sociological Society Conference, 15 February 2007, University of Haifa.

“Introduction to Fakatsit: an Israeli Girls original Digital Language”, Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society Conference, 2006, Open University, Ra’anana. (Co-presented with Ilan Gonen).

“I Blog therefore I Am: Writing, Design and Play as blogging practices”, The 1st National Conference of Internet Research Students, 14 November 2006, Bar Ilan University.

“The Language of the Fakatsa on Blogs”, Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society Conference, 2005, Bar Ilan University.

“Israblog: Characteristic of an Israeli Virtual Community”, Communicating: A Student Research Conference, 12 December 2004, University of Haifa.

“Free Hugs, Flashmobs and Smart Mobbing: Utilizing Meme Power for Social Action”, The Institute of Theater, Cinema and Media Studies, Vienna University, 21 June 2011.

“The Discourse Patterns of Online Harassment and Abuse”, Haifa Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa, 12 May 2011. Watch video in Hebrew.

“If you wanna say something important, you better sing it: engagement with Flashmobs and Lip-dubs as a new form of political and social action”, Academic Panel at Print Screen- Internet Movies Festival, 31 March 2011, in Holon, Israel. Watch Video Presentation in Hebrew.

“Ethnography of the Fakatsa: Identity, Stereotype and Simulacra”, Critical Network Society Seminar, 4 May 2010, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University. Watch video (Hebrew).

“Bloggers as Early Adopters of Public Opinion: Ethnography of Influencing Networked Publics”, Internet Research Group graduate lecture series, Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Vienna, February 4^th, 2010.

“Performing the Mundane: Gender, Language and Play in Blogs of Israeli teenage girls”, iSchool Research Conversation, University of Washington in Seattle, October 5^th, 2009.

“Lessons from Three Third World Women’s Web Encounter Stories” (Virtual Presentation via YouTube-in Hebrew), A Website of Her Own: The Internet as a Platform for a Feminist Revolution, Israeli Association for Feminist and Gender Studies, 14 June 2009, Bar Ilan University.