Dafna Lemish

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
Lemish in July 2015
Born (1951-09-26) September 26, 1951
Haifa, Israel
Alma materTel Aviv University (BA)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA)
Ohio State University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMedia studies
Social science
InstitutionsSouthern Illinois University Carbondale
ThesisViewing television in public places : an ethnography[1] (1982)

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.[2] Lemish is Associate Dean for Programs at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Biography

Dafna Lemish was born in Haifa. She 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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5] She serves as an Associate Dean for Programs at Rutgers University and is a member of the International Communication Association.

Awards and recognition
Dafna Lemish during a symposium held in her honor at Tel Aviv University, 2011: "30 years of feminist research on Israeli media."
  • Inaugural recipient of the Senior Scholar Award of the Children, Media and Adolescents. Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2012.[6]
  • Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2010.[7]
  • The first recipient of the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, The Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association, 2009.

Published works
  • 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. 
  • UNICEF Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Excite, Educate and Heal.  With Barbara Kolucki (Book and website).[8]

References
  1. "OSU Library Catalog". osu.edu. Ohio State University. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  2. "Jordan Named Co-Editor of Journal of Children and Media | Annenberg School for Communication". www.asc.upenn.edu. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  3. "Dafna Lemish | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  4. "Tel Aviv University Rector – The Rector's List of Outstanding Teachers". www.tau.ac.il. Archived from the original on February 15, 2005. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  5. "Digital Media and Developing Minds". Cvent. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  6. "Children, Adolescents and the Media – Past winners". cam.icahdq.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  7. "International Communication Association – Fellows". www.icahdq.org. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  8. Kolucki,B.,Lemish,D. (2011) – Communicating with children: Principles and Practices to Nurture,Inspire, Excite, Educate and Heal.  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
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