Orgad, Shani


Dr Shani Orgad  

Department

Position held

Department of Media and Communications

Lecturer in Media and Communications

Experience keywords:

gender and media; research methods; health communication; mobile television; media representations; globalisation; internet; narrative

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Shani Orgad's research interests include media representations (particularly representations of suffering), media and globalisation, narrative and media, health and new media, and methodological aspects of doing internet research. Her previous research explored the ways in which women who suffer from breast cancer use the internet as a communicative tool for coping with the illness. Her current research explores the representations of the survivor in contemporary media and public discourse. She also completed a research project on the impact of mobile television.

Languages:

Hebrew [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6493

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2014

Orgad, Shani (2014) When media representation met sociology. In: Waisbord , Silvio, (ed.) Media sociology: a reappraisal. Polity, USA.

2013

Orgad, Shani (2013) Visualizers of solidarity: organizational politics in humanitarian and international development NGOs. Visual communication, ISSN 1470-3572

Orgad, Shani and Seu, Bruna (2013) The mediation of humanitarianism: towards a research framework. Culture, communication and critique, ISSN 1753-9129

2012

Orgad, Shani (2012) Media representation and the global imagination. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780745643793

2011

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Orgad, Shani (2011) Proper distance: mediation, ethics, otherness. International journal of cultural studies, 14 (4). pp. 341-345. ISSN 1367-8779

Orgad, Shani (2011) Proper distance from ourselves: the potential for estrangement in the mediapolis. International journal of cultural studies, 14 (4). pp. 401-421. ISSN 1367-8779

2009

Orgad, Shani (2009) Watching how others watch us: the Israeli media's treatment of international coverage of the Gaza War. Communication review, 12 (3). pp. 250-261. ISSN 1071-4421

Orgad, Shani (2009) How can researchers make sense of the issues involved in collecting and interpreting online and offline data? In: Markham, Annette and Baym, Nancy, (eds.) Internet inquiry: conversations about method. SAGE, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 33-53. ISBN 9781412910002

Orgad, Shani (2009) The survivor in contemporary culture and public discourse: a genealogy. Communication review, 12 (2). pp. 132-161. ISSN 1071-4421

Orgad, Shani (2009) Mobile TV. Convergence: the journal of research into new media technologies, 15 (2). pp. 197-214. ISSN 1354-8565

2008

Orgad, Shani and Seu, Bruna (2008) Metaphorical bystanders: the mediation of distant suffering and audiences’ reception. In:Media@lse Fifth Anniversary Conference: Media, Communication and Humanity (21st - 23rd September 2008 : LSE, London).

Orgad, Shani (2008) 'Have you seen Bloomberg?': satellite news channels as agents of the new visibility. Global media and communication, 4 (3). pp. 301-327. ISSN 1742-7665

2007

Orgad, Shani (2007) The internet as a moral space: the legacy of Roger Silverstone. New media and society, 9 (1). pp. 33-41. ISSN 1461-4448

Orgad, Shani (2007) Interrelations between ‘online’ and ‘offline’: questions, issues and implications. In: Mansell, Robin and Avgerou, Chrisanthi and Quah, Danny and Silverstone, Roger, (eds.) Oxford handbook of information and communication technologies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 514-537. ISBN 0199266239

2006

Orgad, Shani (2006) This box was made for walking: how will mobile television transform viewers' experience and change advertising? London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Orgad, Shani (2006) The cultural dimensions of online communication : a study of breast cancer patients’ internet spaces. New media & society, 8 (6). pp. 877-899. ISSN 1461-4448

2005

Orgad, Shani (2005) Storytelling online: talking breast cancer on the internet. Peter Lang, New York, US. ISBN 0820476293

Orgad, Shani (2005) From online to offline and back: moving from online to offline relationships with research informants. In: Hine, Christine, (ed.) Virtual methods: Issues in social research on the internet. Berg, Oxford, UK, pp. 51-66. ISBN 9781845200855

2004

Orgad, Shani (2004) Just do it! The online communication of breast cancer as a practice of empowerment. In: Consalvo, Mia and Baym, Nancy and Hunsinger, Jeremy and Jensen, Klaus Bruhn and Logie, John and Murero, Monica and Shade, Leslie Regan, (eds.) Internet research annual: selected papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002. Peter Lang, New York, USA. ISBN 9780820468402

2000

Orgad, Shani (2000) Help yourself: the world wide web as a self-help agora. In: Gauntlett, David, (ed.) Web.studies: rewiring media studies for the digital age. Arnold, London, UK, pp. 146-157. ISBN 0340760494

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