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Israeli media researcher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 2015 | |
Born | Haifa, Israel | September 26, 1951
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 served as the Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is also the founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media.[2] Lemish is Associate Dean for Programs at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Dafna 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.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5] Since 2016, she has served as an Associate Dean for Programs at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, and was promoted to distinguished professor in 2019. She has been an active member of the International Communication Association since 1980.
She is the founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media.
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