Ido Ramati
Biographic Data
| ID | 308039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ido Ramati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ido |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramati |
| SIGNATURE | RAMATI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5364-2969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Commemorative stickers
This paper explores the use of bumper-stickers to commemorate the dead. Commemoration stickers have become a widespread phenomenon in Israel since the October 7 attack and subsequent war: posted on various surfaces in public spaces, they memorialize victims of terror-attacks or fallen soldiers through a photograph alongside short texts, and often a QR code linking to online content about the deceased. Using this medium for this purpose is counter…
Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent| AI and Communication Research
On June 9, 2025, the DAN Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University convened a roundtable to explore the evolving intersections of artificial intelligence and communication research. The event brought together communication scholars from multiple universities in Israel for a wide-ranging conversation about AI’s place in the field of communication—as an object of study, a methodological tool, and, increasingly, as part of a broader cultura…
Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent| AI and Communication Research
On June 9, 2025, the DAN Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University convened a roundtable to explore the evolving intersections of artificial intelligence and communication research. The event brought together communication scholars from multiple universities in Israel for a wide-ranging conversation about AI’s place in the field of communication—as an object of study, a methodological tool, and, increasingly, as part of a broader cultura…
Phonographic theatricality
Intermingling new and old media, this article introduces the concept of phonographic theatricality to explore the performativity of human-machine vocality. It jointly discusses the theatricality of historical and new sound media: media principles that characterized the phonograph in its emergence are still evident in the speech of contemporary AI-voice agents. Phonographic theatricality is a cross-media concept describing the conditions, playfuln…
Algorithmic Ventriloquism
This article explores the vocal human-machine relations embedded in text-to-speech (TTS) generators. Retracing the human sources behind the synthetic speech and tracking the remediation of the voice by the machine-learning algorithm, it argues that artificial intelligence (AI) speaking agents such as Siri and Alexa, as well as other TTS acts such as TikTok's, are performing algorithmic ventriloquism. Speaking mechanically with the voices of profe…
Thumbs up and down
This paper explores thumb-typing as a cultural technique stemming from the mutual development of typing interfaces and practices. Focusing on the work of the typing fingers, it examines how the assignment of thumbs to be the primary writing digits is an innovation that correlates—and in some respects causes—textual and social changes that are central to digital culture. It argues that thumb-typing embodies recursive relations between behavioral p…
Use this sound
This article explores body–voice entanglements in TikTok through the prism of ventriloquism. It suggests that TikTok is an app of network ventriloquism, that is, an audiovisual technology–based web of dissociations and reconfigurations of users’ bodies and voices. Yiddish serves as a case study for how TikTok’s features build an infrastructure for language, heritage, and cultural activism. We analyze YiddishToks as an instantiation of the ways Ti…
Aleph-bet, dits-and-dahs, zeros and ones
One of the basic features facilitating communication on the Internet in a variety of languages is Unicode code-layout. It standardizes the representation of most of the world’s writing systems on digital media, thus enabling the process and transmission of information through such technologies. Unicode is a contemporary character code, and this paper traces its evolvement out of previous code-layouts, starting with Morse code in telegraphy. Focus…
Uniform multilingualism
This article applies a media geneaology perspective to examine the operative logic of Google Translate. Tracing machine translation from post–World War II (WWII) rule-based methods to contemporary algorithmic statistical methods, we analyze the underlying power structure of algorithmic and human collaboration that Translate encompasses. Focusing on the relationship between technology, language, and speakers, we argue that the operative logic of T…
Between Israel and Germany
The article explores the phenomenon of return to Germany in contemporary Israeli cinema and argues that this return encodes a therapeutic construct for cultural healing from the traumas of forced migration and the Holocaust. Trauma studies supplies a theoretical framework for the analysis of three films and informs the investigation of the wider cultural and historical contexts of the return. Two of the films bring their protagonists to Germany t…
Use this sound
This article explores body–voice entanglements in TikTok through the prism of ventriloquism. It suggests that TikTok is an app of network ventriloquism, that is, an audiovisual technology–based web of dissociations and reconfigurations of users’ bodies and voices. Yiddish serves as a case study for how TikTok’s features build an infrastructure for language, heritage, and cultural activism. We analyze YiddishToks as an instantiation of the ways Ti…
Uniform multilingualism
This article applies a media geneaology perspective to examine the operative logic of Google Translate. Tracing machine translation from post–World War II (WWII) rule-based methods to contemporary algorithmic statistical methods, we analyze the underlying power structure of algorithmic and human collaboration that Translate encompasses. Focusing on the relationship between technology, language, and speakers, we argue that the operative logic of T…
Algorithmic Ventriloquism
This article explores the vocal human-machine relations embedded in text-to-speech (TTS) generators. Retracing the human sources behind the synthetic speech and tracking the remediation of the voice by the machine-learning algorithm, it argues that artificial intelligence (AI) speaking agents such as Siri and Alexa, as well as other TTS acts such as TikTok's, are performing algorithmic ventriloquism. Speaking mechanically with the voices of profe…
Between Israel and Germany
The article explores the phenomenon of return to Germany in contemporary Israeli cinema and argues that this return encodes a therapeutic construct for cultural healing from the traumas of forced migration and the Holocaust. Trauma studies supplies a theoretical framework for the analysis of three films and informs the investigation of the wider cultural and historical contexts of the return. Two of the films bring their protagonists to Germany t…
Between Israel and Germany
The article explores the phenomenon of return to Germany in contemporary Israeli cinema and argues that this return encodes a therapeutic construct for cultural healing from the traumas of forced migration and the Holocaust. Trauma studies supplies a theoretical framework for the analysis of three films and informs the investigation of the wider cultural and historical contexts of the return. Two of the films bring their protagonists to Germany t…
Uniform multilingualism
This article applies a media geneaology perspective to examine the operative logic of Google Translate. Tracing machine translation from post–World War II (WWII) rule-based methods to contemporary algorithmic statistical methods, we analyze the underlying power structure of algorithmic and human collaboration that Translate encompasses. Focusing on the relationship between technology, language, and speakers, we argue that the operative logic of T…
Aleph-bet, dits-and-dahs, zeros and ones
One of the basic features facilitating communication on the Internet in a variety of languages is Unicode code-layout. It standardizes the representation of most of the world’s writing systems on digital media, thus enabling the process and transmission of information through such technologies. Unicode is a contemporary character code, and this paper traces its evolvement out of previous code-layouts, starting with Morse code in telegraphy. Focus…
Use this sound
This article explores body–voice entanglements in TikTok through the prism of ventriloquism. It suggests that TikTok is an app of network ventriloquism, that is, an audiovisual technology–based web of dissociations and reconfigurations of users’ bodies and voices. Yiddish serves as a case study for how TikTok’s features build an infrastructure for language, heritage, and cultural activism. We analyze YiddishToks as an instantiation of the ways Ti…
Thumbs up and down
This paper explores thumb-typing as a cultural technique stemming from the mutual development of typing interfaces and practices. Focusing on the work of the typing fingers, it examines how the assignment of thumbs to be the primary writing digits is an innovation that correlates—and in some respects causes—textual and social changes that are central to digital culture. It argues that thumb-typing embodies recursive relations between behavioral p…
Algorithmic Ventriloquism
This article explores the vocal human-machine relations embedded in text-to-speech (TTS) generators. Retracing the human sources behind the synthetic speech and tracking the remediation of the voice by the machine-learning algorithm, it argues that artificial intelligence (AI) speaking agents such as Siri and Alexa, as well as other TTS acts such as TikTok's, are performing algorithmic ventriloquism. Speaking mechanically with the voices of profe…
Phonographic theatricality
Intermingling new and old media, this article introduces the concept of phonographic theatricality to explore the performativity of human-machine vocality. It jointly discusses the theatricality of historical and new sound media: media principles that characterized the phonograph in its emergence are still evident in the speech of contemporary AI-voice agents. Phonographic theatricality is a cross-media concept describing the conditions, playfuln…
Commemorative stickers
This paper explores the use of bumper-stickers to commemorate the dead. Commemoration stickers have become a widespread phenomenon in Israel since the October 7 attack and subsequent war: posted on various surfaces in public spaces, they memorialize victims of terror-attacks or fallen soldiers through a photograph alongside short texts, and often a QR code linking to online content about the deceased. Using this medium for this purpose is counter…
Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent| AI and Communication Research
On June 9, 2025, the DAN Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University convened a roundtable to explore the evolving intersections of artificial intelligence and communication research. The event brought together communication scholars from multiple universities in Israel for a wide-ranging conversation about AI’s place in the field of communication—as an object of study, a methodological tool, and, increasingly, as part of a broader cultura…
Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent| AI and Communication Research
On June 9, 2025, the DAN Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University convened a roundtable to explore the evolving intersections of artificial intelligence and communication research. The event brought together communication scholars from multiple universities in Israel for a wide-ranging conversation about AI’s place in the field of communication—as an object of study, a methodological tool, and, increasingly, as part of a broader cultura…
Computer Science (5 works) · Digital Media and Philosophy (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Code (set theory (2 works) · Communication studies (2 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (2 works)