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Name
  
Dafna Lemish


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Born
  
September 26, 1951 (age 72) Haifa, Israel (
1951-09-26
)

Institutions
  
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Thesis
  
Viewing television in public places : an ethnography (1982)

Alma mater
  
Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ohio State University

Fields
  
Media studies, Social science

Books
  
Children and Media: A Global, Children and Televisio, Screening Gender on Children

Residence
  
United States of America

Learning About The Role Of Media In The Construction Of Childhood: A Personal Research Journey


Dafna Lemish is an Israeli-American media researcher in the fields of children, youth and leisure culture; as well as construction of gender identity in the media.

Contents

She serves 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.. Now days, Prof. Lemish serve as an Associate Dean for Programs in Rutgers University Of New Jersey.

Biography

Dafna worked at Oranim College teaching media literacy, and later directed the Institute for the Research of Media and the Family, a non-profit organization later integrated within the Israeli Women's Network in Jerusalem, then ceasing to exist independently.

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 5 years.

In 2010 she accepted a position as Chair of the Department of Radio, television, and Digital media at Southern Illinois University, and is the interim Dean, as well as Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. In the past year, she serve as an Associate Dean for Programs in Rutgers University Of New Jersey.

Awards and honors

  • Inaugural recipient of the Senior Scholar Award of the Children, Media and Adolescents. Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2012.
  • Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2010.
  • The first recipient of the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, The Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association, 2009.

    • Books and articles

  • Children and media: A global perspective. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • The Routledge international handbook of children, adolescents and media. New York and Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Sexy girls, heroes and funny losers: Gender representations in children´s TV around the world. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Lemish, D. (2010). Screening gender in children's TV: The views of producers around the world. New York and Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Cohen, A.A., Lemish, D., & Schejter, A. (2008). The wonder phone in the land of miracles: Mobile telephony in Israel. Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.
  • Lemish, D. (2007). Children and television: A Global perspective. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Lemish, D. & Götz, M. (Eds.) (2007). Children and media in times of war and conflict. Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.
  • Götz, M. Lemish, D. Aidman, A., & Moon, H. (2005). Media and the make-believe worlds of children: When Harry Potter meets Pokémon in Disneyland. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

    • Philanthropy

  • UNICEF Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Excite, Educate and Heal.  With Barbara Kolucki (Book and website).
  • Member of the International Communication Association.

    • References

    Dafna Lemish Wikipedia
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