I am a sociologist of media and communication and a faculty member in the department since 2012 (PhD, London School of Economics). My research centers on the political economy of media technologies, examining the impact of socio-economic factors on the development and implementation of communication technologies. My work focuses on how the socio-economic structures of traditional media systems—particularly television and journalism—shape the definition of political and social reality. In recent years, I have studied how data-driven digital institutions—platforms, data companies, and organizations developing language models—have concentrated significant power in shaping social knowledge: they determine what kinds of knowledge are produced, how information flows, and who has access to it. Since 2023, I have been a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute. My research has been supported by grants from the Israel Science Foundation, the Se Authority for Television and Radio, the Data Research Center, the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, the Weizenbaum Institute, and others. My work has received international media attention and has been frequently covered in the Israeli press. Alongside my academic activity, I have served as a reader for film and television funds, as an academic supervisor in Media Watch organizations, and as a consultant to various initiatives in the television and EdTech fields. In the past, I worked as a documentary filmmaker, with films broadcast in Israel and internationally.
