Hillel Nossek
Biographic Data
| ID | 3075085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hillel Nossek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hillel |
| FAMILY NAME | Nossek |
| SIGNATURE | NOSSEK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“The Shadow and the Mouse”
This study conducts an ideological content analysis of the representations of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Israeli media during the “Iron Swords” war, commencing after the October 7, 2023, massacre. Sinwar evolved from a militant leader into a mythologized national obsession, personifying the enemy for the Israeli public. Analyzing news, commentary, and satire, this article identifies three dominant archetypes used to construct his image: the Bar…
What I Can't Change I Don't See
This study examines how members of a cultural minority perceive their representations in the mainstream media, using immigrants to Israel from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) as a case study. The research applies Jaspers’ psychological theory on boundary situations to media consumption to provide a theoretical conceptualization and empirical implementation of how FSU immigrants interpret their representations on television. The research proposes th…
A one-man show
This article seeks to examine whether, in an age where anyone ostensibly can become a journalist without the backing of any professional and responsible system, a single journalist can bring an important topic, related to a central security issue in a given society, to the attention of the media and of decision-makers. To this end, this study compared the salience and framing of coverage of the Arrow missile project in the Israeli press and among…
Mizrahi perceptions of their TV portrayal in Israel
This article examines how Mizrahim perceive their media representation on Israeli television. Using Karl Jaspers’ psychological theory of boundary situations, the article seeks to explain the seeming disparity between the negative depiction of Mizrahim on Israeli TV and Mizrahi consumption of these representations. Having conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 individuals, the article found that most of the interviewees were well a…
The Cultural Divide
This article investigates the function of book reading in a society consisting of a multiplicity of ethno-cultural communities, asking whether book reading functions as a unifying factor within each ethno-cultural community or as a dividing factor and as a signifier of boundaries between them. It is based on multiyear survey data among representative samples of Israeli urban adults (1970, 1990, 2001-2002, 2007, and 2011), focus groups, and analys…
BBC World Service Hebrew Section (1949-1968)
This article seeks to ask the question why, when and how the BBC World Service Hebrew Section broadcast became part of British media diplomacy towards Israel and integral to British foreign policy towards the Middle East and the Cold War. It also seeks to understand why it was closed down and how it became a professional training ground for Israel's public broadcasting system tasked with enhancing democracy as a part of BBC WS' policy. The articl…
On the future of journalism as a professional practice and the case of journalism in Israel
News media’-media events
Based on longitudinal research on the media coverage of terrorist attacks, this article suggests a model of how the coverage of these attacks may be conceptualized as a media event and explores the function this serves within society. The main assumption of the model is that journalists change their ritual of news coverage when dealing with exceptional terrorist attacks; they abandon their usual normative professional frame that encompasses such …
The Military and the Media in the Twenty-First Century
Telling “Our” Story Through News of Terrorism
The central point of this article is that journalists accomplish their work through a narrative duality. During everyday news, journalists apply a professional narrative that represents a balance between their core journalistic values and the social pressures from their working world. When society's core values are under threat—such as with physical or political violence or terrorist attacks—journalists switch to a cultural narrative that moves t…
Our News and their News
The theoretical assumption of this paper is that when a foreign news item is defined as ‘ours’, then journalists’ professional practices become subordinate to national loyalty; when an item is ‘theirs’, journalistic professionalism comes into its own. Thus, the article argues that there is an inverse relation between professional news values and the national identity of the journalist and the journal’s editors. Expressed as a rule, we would say t…
Censorship and Freedom of the Press Under Changing Political Regimes
This article examines the Palestinian media in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to understand how censorship functions in an environment of changing political realities and the impact of censorship on matters related to freedom of the press. These questions are examined both in relation to the period of Palestinian self-governance under the Palestinian Authority (PA), and under the period of Israeli military (administrative) rule. Primary re…
Fifty Years In A "Marriage Of Convenience"
One of the characteristics of democratic regimes is the absence of censorship and other prepublication control over the content of the news media. Although the state of Israel is considered to be a democratic state, military censorship has been in operation since the nation's establishment in 1948. The central question discussed in this article is: What are the circumstances and processes that began and preserve this anomalous situation, one that…
Myths and news narratives
Comparative research across cultures provides a fruitful terrain for research into myths and narratives that are embedded in news content. The study of news as myth or narrative helps to examine the enduring values that a culture tells about itself. This perspective suggests that news is a social construction, but it also suggests that news amounts to an ongoing telling and retelling of familiar stories with a relatively consistent set of themes,…
The Social Implications of Cable Television
The present study deals with the social implications of cable broadcasting and explores the possible links between the spread of global media and the development of individualistic and globalistic orientations. The study examined the function of television in strengthening individuals' cognitive and affective connections with their own selves, with social groups such as primary and ethnic groups, with their society (the nation-state), and with th…
The Narrative Role of the Holocaust and the State of Israel in the Coverage of Salient Terrorist Events in the Israeli Press
The mass media convey dominant values and attitudes through stories and myths that they circulate within a specific culture. As a narrative form, news coverage places events into social reality by retelling them within the framework of known stories or myths. Events acquire meanings and reactions by the ways in which these stories are told. In Israeli society, the Holocaust is a historical event that plays a prominent role in shaping national and…
Our News and their News
The theoretical assumption of this paper is that when a foreign news item is defined as ‘ours’, then journalists’ professional practices become subordinate to national loyalty; when an item is ‘theirs’, journalistic professionalism comes into its own. Thus, the article argues that there is an inverse relation between professional news values and the national identity of the journalist and the journal’s editors. Expressed as a rule, we would say t…
Telling “Our” Story Through News of Terrorism
The central point of this article is that journalists accomplish their work through a narrative duality. During everyday news, journalists apply a professional narrative that represents a balance between their core journalistic values and the social pressures from their working world. When society's core values are under threat—such as with physical or political violence or terrorist attacks—journalists switch to a cultural narrative that moves t…
News media’-media events
Based on longitudinal research on the media coverage of terrorist attacks, this article suggests a model of how the coverage of these attacks may be conceptualized as a media event and explores the function this serves within society. The main assumption of the model is that journalists change their ritual of news coverage when dealing with exceptional terrorist attacks; they abandon their usual normative professional frame that encompasses such …
Myths and news narratives
Comparative research across cultures provides a fruitful terrain for research into myths and narratives that are embedded in news content. The study of news as myth or narrative helps to examine the enduring values that a culture tells about itself. This perspective suggests that news is a social construction, but it also suggests that news amounts to an ongoing telling and retelling of familiar stories with a relatively consistent set of themes,…
On the future of journalism as a professional practice and the case of journalism in Israel
Mizrahi perceptions of their TV portrayal in Israel
This article examines how Mizrahim perceive their media representation on Israeli television. Using Karl Jaspers’ psychological theory of boundary situations, the article seeks to explain the seeming disparity between the negative depiction of Mizrahim on Israeli TV and Mizrahi consumption of these representations. Having conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 individuals, the article found that most of the interviewees were well a…
The Cultural Divide
This article investigates the function of book reading in a society consisting of a multiplicity of ethno-cultural communities, asking whether book reading functions as a unifying factor within each ethno-cultural community or as a dividing factor and as a signifier of boundaries between them. It is based on multiyear survey data among representative samples of Israeli urban adults (1970, 1990, 2001-2002, 2007, and 2011), focus groups, and analys…
The Social Implications of Cable Television
The present study deals with the social implications of cable broadcasting and explores the possible links between the spread of global media and the development of individualistic and globalistic orientations. The study examined the function of television in strengthening individuals' cognitive and affective connections with their own selves, with social groups such as primary and ethnic groups, with their society (the nation-state), and with th…
What I Can't Change I Don't See
This study examines how members of a cultural minority perceive their representations in the mainstream media, using immigrants to Israel from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) as a case study. The research applies Jaspers’ psychological theory on boundary situations to media consumption to provide a theoretical conceptualization and empirical implementation of how FSU immigrants interpret their representations on television. The research proposes th…
A one-man show
This article seeks to examine whether, in an age where anyone ostensibly can become a journalist without the backing of any professional and responsible system, a single journalist can bring an important topic, related to a central security issue in a given society, to the attention of the media and of decision-makers. To this end, this study compared the salience and framing of coverage of the Arrow missile project in the Israeli press and among…
The Military and the Media in the Twenty-First Century
The Narrative Role of the Holocaust and the State of Israel in the Coverage of Salient Terrorist Events in the Israeli Press
The mass media convey dominant values and attitudes through stories and myths that they circulate within a specific culture. As a narrative form, news coverage places events into social reality by retelling them within the framework of known stories or myths. Events acquire meanings and reactions by the ways in which these stories are told. In Israeli society, the Holocaust is a historical event that plays a prominent role in shaping national and…
The Social Implications of Cable Television
The present study deals with the social implications of cable broadcasting and explores the possible links between the spread of global media and the development of individualistic and globalistic orientations. The study examined the function of television in strengthening individuals' cognitive and affective connections with their own selves, with social groups such as primary and ethnic groups, with their society (the nation-state), and with th…
Fifty Years In A "Marriage Of Convenience"
One of the characteristics of democratic regimes is the absence of censorship and other prepublication control over the content of the news media. Although the state of Israel is considered to be a democratic state, military censorship has been in operation since the nation's establishment in 1948. The central question discussed in this article is: What are the circumstances and processes that began and preserve this anomalous situation, one that…
Myths and news narratives
Comparative research across cultures provides a fruitful terrain for research into myths and narratives that are embedded in news content. The study of news as myth or narrative helps to examine the enduring values that a culture tells about itself. This perspective suggests that news is a social construction, but it also suggests that news amounts to an ongoing telling and retelling of familiar stories with a relatively consistent set of themes,…
Censorship and Freedom of the Press Under Changing Political Regimes
This article examines the Palestinian media in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to understand how censorship functions in an environment of changing political realities and the impact of censorship on matters related to freedom of the press. These questions are examined both in relation to the period of Palestinian self-governance under the Palestinian Authority (PA), and under the period of Israeli military (administrative) rule. Primary re…
Our News and their News
The theoretical assumption of this paper is that when a foreign news item is defined as ‘ours’, then journalists’ professional practices become subordinate to national loyalty; when an item is ‘theirs’, journalistic professionalism comes into its own. Thus, the article argues that there is an inverse relation between professional news values and the national identity of the journalist and the journal’s editors. Expressed as a rule, we would say t…
The Military and the Media in the Twenty-First Century
Telling “Our” Story Through News of Terrorism
The central point of this article is that journalists accomplish their work through a narrative duality. During everyday news, journalists apply a professional narrative that represents a balance between their core journalistic values and the social pressures from their working world. When society's core values are under threat—such as with physical or political violence or terrorist attacks—journalists switch to a cultural narrative that moves t…
News media’-media events
Based on longitudinal research on the media coverage of terrorist attacks, this article suggests a model of how the coverage of these attacks may be conceptualized as a media event and explores the function this serves within society. The main assumption of the model is that journalists change their ritual of news coverage when dealing with exceptional terrorist attacks; they abandon their usual normative professional frame that encompasses such …
On the future of journalism as a professional practice and the case of journalism in Israel
BBC World Service Hebrew Section (1949-1968)
This article seeks to ask the question why, when and how the BBC World Service Hebrew Section broadcast became part of British media diplomacy towards Israel and integral to British foreign policy towards the Middle East and the Cold War. It also seeks to understand why it was closed down and how it became a professional training ground for Israel's public broadcasting system tasked with enhancing democracy as a part of BBC WS' policy. The articl…
The Cultural Divide
This article investigates the function of book reading in a society consisting of a multiplicity of ethno-cultural communities, asking whether book reading functions as a unifying factor within each ethno-cultural community or as a dividing factor and as a signifier of boundaries between them. It is based on multiyear survey data among representative samples of Israeli urban adults (1970, 1990, 2001-2002, 2007, and 2011), focus groups, and analys…
Mizrahi perceptions of their TV portrayal in Israel
This article examines how Mizrahim perceive their media representation on Israeli television. Using Karl Jaspers’ psychological theory of boundary situations, the article seeks to explain the seeming disparity between the negative depiction of Mizrahim on Israeli TV and Mizrahi consumption of these representations. Having conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 individuals, the article found that most of the interviewees were well a…
A one-man show
This article seeks to examine whether, in an age where anyone ostensibly can become a journalist without the backing of any professional and responsible system, a single journalist can bring an important topic, related to a central security issue in a given society, to the attention of the media and of decision-makers. To this end, this study compared the salience and framing of coverage of the Arrow missile project in the Israeli press and among…
What I Can't Change I Don't See
This study examines how members of a cultural minority perceive their representations in the mainstream media, using immigrants to Israel from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) as a case study. The research applies Jaspers’ psychological theory on boundary situations to media consumption to provide a theoretical conceptualization and empirical implementation of how FSU immigrants interpret their representations on television. The research proposes th…
“The Shadow and the Mouse”
This study conducts an ideological content analysis of the representations of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Israeli media during the “Iron Swords” war, commencing after the October 7, 2023, massacre. Sinwar evolved from a militant leader into a mythologized national obsession, personifying the enemy for the Israeli public. Analyzing news, commentary, and satire, this article identifies three dominant archetypes used to construct his image: the Bar…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Law (9 works) · History (7 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works)