The Digital Divide in Israel
Israel serves as an illustrative testbed for the potential of contemporary media to rewrite the rules of social engagement and to create new participatory opportunities for marginalized communities. Indeed, as is common in most Western societies, Israeli
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Amit M. Schejter Noam Tirosh
A Justice-Based Approach for New Media Policy
Amit M. Schejter • Noam Tirosh
A Justice-Based Approach for New Media Policy In the Paths of Righteousness
Amit M. Schejter Department of Communication Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel
Noam Tirosh Department of Communication Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel
Institute for Information Policy College of Communications Penn State University University Park, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-41509-3 ISBN 978-3-319-41510-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41510-9
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To Judy, Anat, Matan, Tamar, Iddo, Ye’ela, Ziv and Shira
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
How often do you get an opportunity not only to say that you are combining research with a social mission you really believe in, but actually get to do it? This book is an amalgamation of work that took place between 2012 and 2016. It brings together thoughts and ideas we developed as we were designing and conducting research under the auspices of the Learning in a Networked Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE) group that we put together in the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The project is still ongoing, and we expect many works inspired by the themes of this book to emerge from research projects currently being conducted by members of the group working among the marginalized communities of Israel. This book is but a halfway station in this effort. What motivated us was our observation that
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