Dafna Lemish
Biographic Data
| ID | 290896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dafna Lemish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dafna |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemish |
| SIGNATURE | LEMISH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6166-0692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Antecedent and intervening factors challenging mediation of children’s media use: A case study of grandmothers in Israel
This study examines the challenges grandmothers face when mediating their grandchildren’s media use – an underexplored dimension of intergenerational caregiving and of mediation theory. It combines a survey of 267 grandmother – mother dyads with 20 interviews with grandmothers. Quantitative results revealed that restrictive mediation was the most challenging practice, particularly regarding interactive media, and that technological mediation diff…
Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on what Jocam at 18 reveals about our field
In the tradition of Jewish numerology (i.e., gematria, assigning numbers to letters), 18 means “alive” (“Chai”). At 18, JOCAM is, indeed, very much alive and well. As is typical on such special mil
Secondary mediation of children's media use: An exploration of mothers-grandmothers' mediation dynamic
From experiencing parental mediation as a child to practicing it as a parent: An exploratory study with Israeli mothers
This study of 267 mothers of young children explores, for the first time, the associations between recollection of parental mediation during childhood and current parental mediation of children's media uses. The analysis indicated that the mothers' recollections were significantly associated with mediating their children's media use in the present. Moreover, these recollections predicted the current mediation more than variables found to be signi…
The social media (moral) panic this time: Why CAM scholars may need a more complex approach
For my Ph.D. comprehensive exams at Ohio State University in 1980, I was asked to discuss articles that had most influenced my thinking. My favorite at the time was Bernard Berelson’s (1948) articl
The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media
The next time is now! How children and media professionals must respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine
Media play a significant role in children’s wellbeing during times of crisis. In this integrated commentary of our research and activism, we outline the challenges in providing media for children during such times and offer professionals guidelines for providing children with age-appropriate, context-sensitive, knowledge-enriching information, allowing them to raise their own questions and share their perspectives, and help them gain a sense of c…
Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media
Representations of migration in U.K. and U.S. children’s picture books in the Trump and Brexit era
In the wake of an intensifying hostile environment towards migrants and refugees in the U.S. and Europe, children’s picture books play an important role in shaping children’s understanding of migration and attitudes towards migrants. How do contemporary children’s books depict migration? This article discusses the findings of a thematic analysis of 40 picture books about migration, published between 2015 and 2019 in the U.K. and the U.S. We found…
Like post-cataract surgery: What came into focus about children and media research during the pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis put much of my then on-going research on-hold: Studying parent-child interactions in public places while engaged with mobile phones was halted; plans for a second phase of study
“Where are you?” An observational exploration of parental technoference in public places in the US and Israel
Recent studies point to the heavy rate of smartphone use by parents while they are accompanied by their children in public places This, in turn, leads to parental technoference, which raises concerns regarding children’s safety and their emotional wellbeing. Accordingly, the present study aims to ascertain the cross-cultural manifestations of parental technoference due to mobile phone use in playgrounds and eateries in two different national cont…
Food for Thought: Parent-Child Face-to-Face Communication and Mobile Phone Use in Eateries
It has become increasingly common for parents and children to engage in individual digital activities which disconnect them from each other while remaining in each other’s presence. Accordingly, this paper examines how parent-child face-to-face communication is associated with mobile phone use during a family meal in eateries. The study included unobtrusive observations of 58 families with children approximately three to six years of age in vario…
Factors Explaining Grandparental Mediation of Children’s Media Use in Two National Contexts
This study aimed at revealing the factors determining grandparental mediation of their grandchildren’s screen viewing and interactive media use, based on online surveys conducted among 291 American and 356 Israeli grandparents who reported taking care of 2-to-7 years old grandchildren at least once a week. Past mediation, familiarity with children’s media, parental instructions and joint leisure activities were positively associated with mediatio…
The ultimate treat? Young Israeli children’s media use under their grandparents’ care
A substantial effort was made over the years to reveal predictors of children’s screen time in an attempt to suggest effective ways to minimize its negative effects. Studies were mostly based on parents’ reports and ignored other major caregivers, particularly grandparents. Accordingly, this study offers a pioneer exploration of young children’s interactive and non-interactive media use under their grandparent’s care and the factors associated wi…
“A room of our own”: Farewell comments on editing the journal of children and media
The Journal of Children and Media (JOCAM) was conceived in 2004 while walking along Liberty Bay, WA in the United States. Peter, my spouse, and I were spending our sabbatical nearby in the quaint v
Look at me!” Parental use of mobile phones at the playground
Research suggests that parent–child communication is rapidly changing as a result of the massive adoption of mobile devices and their penetration into interpersonal interaction within the family. Accordingly, this study aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of the impact of mobile device use on the quality of parent–child interaction in early childhood, based on ethnographic observations of 60 families at two playgrounds in the United Stat…
Grandparenting with media: Patterns of mediating grandchildren’s media use
Although many grandparents are involved in caring for their grandchildren, they were completely ignored in previous research on mediation of children's media use. Informed by the Grandfather Involvement Framework and the Process Model of the Determinants of Grandparenting, the present study aims at exploring variations among grandparents in mediation patterns. The study was based on a survey of 356 grandparents of young children, who reported tak…
Women in Israeli journalism: Forwards and Backwards
This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two international surveys that included Israel. The study found that while women are integrated in a variety of news areas, such as news presentation, and play…
Gay brotherhood: Israeli gay men and the Eurovision Song Contest
Israel joined Eurovision in 1973, and has since won the contest three times and hosted it twice. Inclusion within the contest was perceived as a source of national pride, according Israel legitimacy as a "European" country: Western, developed and respected. This chapter considers the role of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in the lives of Israeli gay men and its contribution to their construction of a distinct cultural identity. The Israeli gay…
Jocam Bridges: Editors’ Introduction
Jocam Next: Editors' Introduction
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United States, Germany, Israel, and South Korea, it offers an innovative look at media's role on children's creative lives.This distinctive volume:*outlines the…
Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
Doing Comparative Research With Children and Young People
The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
Foreword Maire Messenger Davies. Creating a shared scholarly arena: Editor's Introduction Dafna Lemish. Part 1: Childhoods and Constructions Editor's Introduction. 1. The co-construction of media and childhood Kirsten Drotner 2.Representations of childhood in the media Debbie Olson and Giselle Rampaul 3. Trends in children's consumption of media Uwe Hasebrink and Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink 4. Examining the assumptions in research on children and media…
Spinning the web of identity: The roles of the internet in the lives of immigrant adolescents
This article illuminates the roles of the internet in the unique intersection between adolescence and immigration. The data presented were gathered through in-depth interviews with 70 teenage immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel. The analysis suggests that the internet provides valuable resources for personal growth and empowerment, as it helps to develop and strengthen many aspects of young immigrants' evolving identity during a cri…
My Kind of Campfire: The Eurovision Song Contest and Israeli Gay Men
This study examined the role of the European Song Contest (ESC) in the lives of Israeli gay men and its contribution to their construction of individual as well as collective identity. The empirical base of this study derives from in-depth interviews. The ESC has clearly emerged as a site of camp-related pleasure for homosexuals. Participants in this study described their engagement with the ESC as a special social media event. They appropriated …
The Whore and the Other: Israeli Images of Female Immigrants from the Former USSR
This article examines the dominant images of female immigrants to Israel from the former USSR. The analysis considers the intersection between gender, class, and race in the context of the problematic status of female immigrants. Portrayals of the female immigrants are studied through a qualitative content analysis of news items in the Israeli popular press during the years 1994-1997. The results suggest that the female immigrant appears in the I…
Can't Have it All”: Representations of Older Women in Popular Culture
Representations of older women in the media are defined by the double marginalization of age and gender. The analysis presented here illustrates four major stages in the development of such images: invisibility of older women, stereotypization, ghettoization, and integration. All of these forms continue to circulate simultaneously in popular media at the current time. The feminist critique of these representations suggests that they might be play…
On the Gendered Nature of Mobile Phone Culture in Israel
Real Time and Recall Measures of Mobile Phone Use: Some Methodological Concerns and Empirical Applications
This article discusses the development, reliability, and validity of real-time measures of mobile phone use by means of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology, in comparison with traditional questionnaire-generated recall measures. The sample consisted of 211 Israeli adult mobile phone subscribers subdivided by gender and by the amount of airtime that they normally use. The measurements were applied to three questions to which the participan…
Media Uses in Immigrant Families: Torn between 'Inward' and 'Outward' Paths of Integration
This study examines the roles of the different media — those in the host language, those in the mother tongue and those of the global media — in the lives of immigrant children and adolescents from the former Soviet Union in Israel, at a time when they are coping with complex and unique personal and social challenges as a result of the immigration process and the need to solidify a new identity. In addition, the study looks at the parents' role i…
Still Marginal: Women in Israel's 1996 Television Election Campaign
Spice World: Constructing Femininity the Popular Way
(2003). Spice World: Constructing Femininity the Popular Way. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 17-29
Four Mothers: The Womb in the Public Sphere
The article presents a thematic analysis of newspaper coverage and indepth interviews with activists of an anti-occupation protest movement in Israel called `Four Mothers'. It suggests that journalists employed several gender-biased discourse strategies that framed the movement as a `mother's voice' rather than a civil one: emphasizing the maternal, rather than the issues addressed by the movement; use of biased patterns to introduce female activ…
Girls Can Wrestle Too”: Gender Differences in the Consumption of a Television Wrestling Series
Global Culture in Practice: A Look at Children and Adolescents in Denmark, France and Israel
This article discusses a preliminary exploration of how globalization becomes embedded into the lives of children and adolescents in three very different countries: Denmark, France and Israel. Analysis of qualitative data collected from the three countries as part of a major cross-cultural study suggests five interrelated practices of globalization: (1) the role of television as both a default medium and as a source of favourite contents; (2) the…
Much ado about nothing: Masculinities in Israeli advertising
Advertising borrows from other contemporary discourses in circulation in a society as well as contributing to these other discourses. In this study, we examine advertising as an ideological site th
Women in Israeli journalism: Forwards and Backwards
This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two international surveys that included Israel. The study found that while women are integrated in a variety of news areas, such as news presentation, and play…
All the Time His Wife: Portrayals of First Ladies in the Israeli Press
Journal Article 'All the Time His Wife': Portrayals of First Ladies in the Israeli Press Get access Dafna Lemish, Dafna Lemish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gili Drob Gili Drob Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 129–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.1.129 Published: 01 January 2002
Infertile Motherhood”: A television construction of surrogacy
This study explores the socio-cultural arena following legalization of surrogate motherhood in Israel by analyzing Israel's most popular television series: A Touch of Happiness. The qualitative analysis presented here reveals a constant tension between women's reproductive and sexual bodies. This analysis demonstrates how social institutions of marriage, divorce, and motherhood are serving as instruments that reward fertile and punish infertile w…
Look at me!” Parental use of mobile phones at the playground
Research suggests that parent–child communication is rapidly changing as a result of the massive adoption of mobile devices and their penetration into interpersonal interaction within the family. Accordingly, this study aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of the impact of mobile device use on the quality of parent–child interaction in early childhood, based on ethnographic observations of 60 families at two playgrounds in the United Stat…
Between Three Worlds: Host, Homeland, and Global Media in the Lives of Russian Immigrant Families in Israel and Germany
This study investigated various roles played by host, homeland, and global media in the lives of immigrant families from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, former USSR) to Israel and Germany, as well as the place of different media in family conflicts, consolidation, and parenting strategies. The study was based on focus group interviews with 60 families of Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel and Germany and 73 semistructured, in-dept…
Normalizing inequality: Portrayals of women in the Israeli media
(2002). Normalizing inequality: portrayals of women in the Israeli media. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 110-125
Dynamic Infertility”: The contribution of news coverage of reproductive technologies to gender politics
Critical content analysis of eight years' of newspaper coverage of advanced reproductive technologies in Israel demonstrates that the public debate over assisted reproduction is largely characterized by personal narratives that accentuate, on the surface, a discourse of individualism. However, this study claims that beneath the surface, these women's "personal dreams," are in fact realization of the "national dream" that promotes particular socia…
To Laugh or Not to Laugh? Performing Girlhood through Humor
This study explores gender differences in the roles of humor in the lives of Israeli children. Thirty-four Jewish middle-class Israeli children, sixteen girls and eighteen boys, aged between eight to ten years, were interviewed in focus groups in which they discussed a variety of humorous video segments, jokes, and everyday humor. The analysis suggests that humor in interaction is a highly gendered process in this age group and is employed differ…
Guest Editor's Introduction: The media gendering of war and conflict
Disposable Love: The Rise and Fall of a Virtual Pet
One particular toy, the Tamagotchi, is analyzed as a cultural artifact which incorporates the latest in computer and video technology and virtually engages players in the most basic of nurturing relationships. Here one day, and gone the next, the Tamagotchi is seen as a symbol of its times in which even the most intense connections are disposable. The essay examines how this object relates to popular culture and to other children's playthings in …
Food for Thought: Parent-Child Face-to-Face Communication and Mobile Phone Use in Eateries
It has become increasingly common for parents and children to engage in individual digital activities which disconnect them from each other while remaining in each other’s presence. Accordingly, this paper examines how parent-child face-to-face communication is associated with mobile phone use during a family meal in eateries. The study included unobtrusive observations of 58 families with children approximately three to six years of age in vario…
Grandparenting with media: Patterns of mediating grandchildren’s media use
Although many grandparents are involved in caring for their grandchildren, they were completely ignored in previous research on mediation of children's media use. Informed by the Grandfather Involvement Framework and the Process Model of the Determinants of Grandparenting, the present study aims at exploring variations among grandparents in mediation patterns. The study was based on a survey of 356 grandparents of young children, who reported tak…
The Mass Media Environment of Children
Western Wire Services and News of the USA in the Yugoslav Press
Television as a talking picture book: A prop for language acquisition
This study provides longitudinal observations of young children's behaviours while viewing television in their own homes, over a time when the children were actively involved in the process of language acquisition. Sixteen children were observed for a period ranging from 0; 6 to 0;8. At the beginning, their ages ranged from 0; 6.15 to 5.15; at the end, from 1; 2.15 to 3;0. The observations yielded documentation of an overwhelming and consistent o…
Höllen-Inszenierung „Wrestling“
Girls Can Wrestle Too”: Gender Differences in the Consumption of a Television Wrestling Series
Global Culture in Practice: A Look at Children and Adolescents in Denmark, France and Israel
This article discusses a preliminary exploration of how globalization becomes embedded into the lives of children and adolescents in three very different countries: Denmark, France and Israel. Analysis of qualitative data collected from the three countries as part of a major cross-cultural study suggests five interrelated practices of globalization: (1) the role of television as both a default medium and as a source of favourite contents; (2) the…
Disposable Love: The Rise and Fall of a Virtual Pet
One particular toy, the Tamagotchi, is analyzed as a cultural artifact which incorporates the latest in computer and video technology and virtually engages players in the most basic of nurturing relationships. Here one day, and gone the next, the Tamagotchi is seen as a symbol of its times in which even the most intense connections are disposable. The essay examines how this object relates to popular culture and to other children's playthings in …
Still Marginal: Women in Israel's 1996 Television Election Campaign
Four Mothers: The Womb in the Public Sphere
The article presents a thematic analysis of newspaper coverage and indepth interviews with activists of an anti-occupation protest movement in Israel called `Four Mothers'. It suggests that journalists employed several gender-biased discourse strategies that framed the movement as a `mother's voice' rather than a civil one: emphasizing the maternal, rather than the issues addressed by the movement; use of biased patterns to introduce female activ…
The Whore and the Other: Israeli Images of Female Immigrants from the Former USSR
This article examines the dominant images of female immigrants to Israel from the former USSR. The analysis considers the intersection between gender, class, and race in the context of the problematic status of female immigrants. Portrayals of the female immigrants are studied through a qualitative content analysis of news items in the Israeli popular press during the years 1994-1997. The results suggest that the female immigrant appears in the I…
Normalizing inequality: Portrayals of women in the Israeli media
(2002). Normalizing inequality: portrayals of women in the Israeli media. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 110-125
All the Time His Wife: Portrayals of First Ladies in the Israeli Press
Journal Article 'All the Time His Wife': Portrayals of First Ladies in the Israeli Press Get access Dafna Lemish, Dafna Lemish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gili Drob Gili Drob Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 129–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.1.129 Published: 01 January 2002
The Megaphone Effect: The International Diffusion of Cultural Media via the USA
Within the context of globalization, this chapter shows how some cultural texts become internationally popular after traveling via the United States. Through the megaphone effect, items acquire a new aspect as they are diffused from America to the rest of the globe, with a new aura of success. Our analysis of television programs, news networks, children’s culture, and pop music reveals that as mainstream culture spreads, the opportunity is provid…
Real Time and Recall Measures of Mobile Phone Use: Some Methodological Concerns and Empirical Applications
This article discusses the development, reliability, and validity of real-time measures of mobile phone use by means of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology, in comparison with traditional questionnaire-generated recall measures. The sample consisted of 211 Israeli adult mobile phone subscribers subdivided by gender and by the amount of airtime that they normally use. The measurements were applied to three questions to which the participan…
Spice World: Constructing Femininity the Popular Way
(2003). Spice World: Constructing Femininity the Popular Way. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 17-29
Much ado about nothing: Masculinities in Israeli advertising
Advertising borrows from other contemporary discourses in circulation in a society as well as contributing to these other discourses. In this study, we examine advertising as an ideological site th
My Kind of Campfire: The Eurovision Song Contest and Israeli Gay Men
This study examined the role of the European Song Contest (ESC) in the lives of Israeli gay men and its contribution to their construction of individual as well as collective identity. The empirical base of this study derives from in-depth interviews. The ESC has clearly emerged as a site of camp-related pleasure for homosexuals. Participants in this study described their engagement with the ESC as a special social media event. They appropriated …
“I Know I'm a Freierit, But…”: How a Key Cultural Frame (En)genders a Discourse of Inequality
This article investigates how a key frame of interaction establishes and reinforces gendered social relations within a given culture. It analyzes how the concept of the freier (roughly glossed as “sucker”) is used in Israel, interpersonally and via the mass media, to demonstrate how gender is constructed through communication and inextricably bound to the specific cultural context in which it is located. This work exposes how the frame reinforces…
Media And the Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland
Contents: Preface. Part I: Studying Make-Believe Worlds. Children's Fantasy World and the Media: A Theoretical Introduction. Studying Children's Make-Believe Worlds: Methods and Processes. Part II: Research Findings: The Worlds, the Children, and the Media. The Worlds of Make-Believe. The Child in the Make-Believe World. Media Traces in Children's Make-Believe Worlds. Part III: Central Themes: Gender and Culture. The Gendered Nature of Children's…
Guest Editor's Introduction: The media gendering of war and conflict
On the Gendered Nature of Mobile Phone Culture in Israel
The Message Is the Message
Review Articles| February 28 2006 The Message Is the Message: Essay Review ofChildren's Learning from Educational Television: Sesame Street and Beyondby Shalom M. Fisch1 Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Dafna Lemish Dafna Lemish Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2006) 49 (1): 54–57. https://doi.org/10.1159/000090…
Launching a New Journal: Setting New Research Agendas
Media Uses in Immigrant Families: Torn between 'Inward' and 'Outward' Paths of Integration
This study examines the roles of the different media — those in the host language, those in the mother tongue and those of the global media — in the lives of immigrant children and adolescents from the former Soviet Union in Israel, at a time when they are coping with complex and unique personal and social challenges as a result of the immigration process and the need to solidify a new identity. In addition, the study looks at the parents' role i…
Mental Disorders Stigma in the Media: Review of Studies on Production, Content, and Influences
This article analyzes two decades of research regarding the mass media's role in shaping, perpetuating, and reducing the stigma of mental illness. It concentrates on three broad areas common in media inquiry: production, representation, and audiences. The analysis reveals that descriptions of mental illness and the mentally ill are distorted due to inaccuracies, exaggerations, or misinformation. The ill are presented not only as peculiar and diff…
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