Sam Lehman‐wilzig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Lehman‐wilzig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehman‐wilzig |
| SIGNATURE | WILZIG S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6635-4923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Yoel Cohen: Rabbis, Reporters and the Public in the Digital Holyland
Digital Promotion of Suicide: A Platform-Level Ethical Analysis
This article utilizes Aristotelian and Kantian philosophies to probe the social responsibilities of internet intermediaries that in one way or another assist and promote suicide. Striking a balance between freedom of expression and social responsibility, it is argued that several actors should be involved in restricting or eliminating live-streaming suicide, sites that encourage and facilitate suicide, and insult forums that drive people, especia…
CEO Brand Equity – Implementation of a Conceptual Model: Comparing CEO Brand Equity during Successful and Crisis Periods
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) brands that shape stakeholders’ perceptions have become a central component of companies’ strategic communication due to the CEO brand’s substantial contribution to the perception of the company’s brand, to its reputation, and thus to its performance.However, the concept of CEO brand equity is still under-researched. This study offers a first-time, empirical implementation of the CEO brand equity conceptual model, co…
The Routinization of Media Events: Televised Sports in the Era of Mega-TV
Media events theory, developed by Katz and Dayan in the 1990s, has become one of the most well-known and cited theories in communications research, well-aligned with television’s central role in social life at the time. However, three decades since, in which events have spilled over to other media spaces thereby reshaping the theory’s underlying concept, sports broadcasts have remained a consistently stable source of media events. Although the or…
Virtuality and Humanity: Virtual Practice and Its Evolution from Pre-History to the 21st Century
Silent Partners: How Politicians' Facebook Communication with Constituents is Mediated
Theoretical research on political communication between Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public has focused on the role, activities, and perceptions of the MPs themselves without noting the existence of an intermediate layer: Parliamentary Assistants (PAs). This study examines the presence of PAs in the process of MPs' interactions with the public, and their PA's role in this process. The study investigates the perception that social media inv…
Electoral system influence on social network usage patterns of parliamentary assistants as their legislators’ stand-in: The United States, Germany, and Israel
Social networks are generally regarded as channels through which parliamentarians establish direct contact with the public. However, do they engage in these activities personally or rather delegate them to their parliamentary assistants? This study examines the intermediary relationship between parliamentarians and the public (henceforth PAs)—seeking to understand their role in contemporary, political communications. While numerous studies have l…
Is she still ‘the legendary Jewish mother’? a comparative look at Golda Meir’s and Tzipi Livni’s election campaign coverage in the Israeli press
In an attempt to demonstrate how historical changes in public opinion concerning women in politics might be reflected in the media, this article offers an examination of Golda Meir’s 1969 election campaign coverage in the Israeli press compared to Tzipi Livni’s in 2009. Through a gender-focused content analysis of 878 news items, we show how, despite the scholarly argument regarding a ‘gender-blind’ socio-historical attitude towards Meir, the Isr…
Political 'Postwriting' on Facebook: Public Perceptions About Parliamentarians' (Un)Real SNS Involvement
Theoretical research on political communication between MPs and the public has focused on the role, activities, and perceptions of the MPs themselves without noting the existence of an intermediate layer: parliamentary assistants (PAs). This study attempts to investigate how the public perceives, practically and ethically, the (non)involvement of MPs, that is, reliance on PAs for SNSs (social network sites) communication with the public and to fi…
CEO Branding: Between Theory and Practice — Case Studies of Israeli Corporate Founders
This is the first interdisciplinary study to empirically test a theoretical model described in 2013 by Bendisch, Larsen, and Trueman, regarding the CEO branding process—by comparing three founder CEO brands in Israel. The findings validate the model and display strongly perceived “authenticity” in each case study, strengthening the reliability of the CEO brand. The study clearly shows that each of these successful CEO brands has: a clear brand id…
"He Will Take Care of our Security Better than Her" Examining Socio-Cultural Conceptions of Gender in Israeli and American Press Coverage of Female Candidates for Top Political Positions, 2008-2009
This study argues that distinct differences between two cultures and two political campaigns, may result in different press coverage of women running for leadership positions. To demonstrate this, we undertook a content analysis of Tzipi Livni’s and Hillary Clinton's 2008-2009 campaigns in four Israeli and American popular and elite newspapers, examining coverage of nine gender-oriented media frameworks. We found that while the press in both coun…
A Facebook post is born: Exploring the process of generating MPs’ social media presence
Research on political communication between MPs and the public has focused on the role, activities and perceptions of the members of parliament (MPs) themselves. However, the authors’ prior research demonstrated that in fact social media necessitate a new prism through which to study such communication. The contribution of the present study is to look at this relationship through the heretofore under-researched prism of those who in fact are doin…
Hard news, soft news, ‘general’ news: The necessity and utility of an intermediate classification
For at least the past three decades journalism scholars have focused on two types of news — soft and hard — without reassessing these categories or adding to them. The present article investigates whether such neglect is warranted, through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews with 32 journalists and editors from the three main Israeli dailies: Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Haaretz. The findings argue strongly for a third, intermediate category of…
The Media in the 2006 Israeli Elections: Who's Manufacturing Consent? Framing the Spin-Doctors
The method is the message: Explaining inconsistent findings in gender and news production research
Whether, and how, gender affects the news product is one of the most challenging areas in the field of gender and the media. This article analyzes the impact of specific research methodologies on findings regarding gender news influence - based on survey questionnaires and in-depth interviews of female and male editors working in Israeli public radio, as well as on content analysis of their editorial product. Based on different results obtained f…
The natural life cycle of new media evolution: Inter-media struggle for survival in the internet age
This article analyzes the evolution of the internet, with special emphasis on its impact on older media in their struggle to survive. The analysis is based on a 6-stage, natural life cycle model of new media evolution, comprising birth (technical invention), penetration, growth, maturity, self-defense, and adaptation, convergence or obsolescence. Our universal model melds several elements of previous theories and analyses from disparate fields su…
Worth an Agora? 2003 E-lection Party Sites and Public Discourse
Whose News: Does Gender Determine the Editorial Product?
The study reported in this article is a survey of 16 female and 25 male editors in seven Israeli newspapers to examine how gender affects professional news selection. It rated the newsworthiness of 16 different general subject areas, 17 journalism selection criteria, and 24 'concrete' headlines as a simulation. Several editors were also interviewed in-depth. Ninety students of mass communications were surveyed as a control group. The findings ind…
The Tower of Babel vs the Power of Babble: Future Political, Economic and Cultural Consequences of Synchronous, Automated Translation Systems (Sats)
Since the dawn of human history, language differences have served as a barrier to full intercultural and international communication. The recent advent of synchronous, automatic translation systems (SATS), incorporated into the internet, are but the first sign of a communications revolution as profound as the invention of print. This article briefly surveys the following: (1) text/speech recognition and translation problems; (2) current developme…
La Bell(e) epoque? A comparison of party platform and television propaganda ideology in the 1999 Israeli elections
The media campaign: The negative effects of positive campaigning
Wildfire: Grassroots Revolts in Israel in the Post-Socialist Era
Loyalty, Voice, and Quasi-Exit: Israel as a Case Study of Proliferating Alternative Politics
Until around the time of World War II, science tended to focus almost exclusively on institutional or traditional modes of activity. Legislation, public law, the interrelationship and inner dynamics of the branches of government, and similar elements were the central foci of the discipline. This is not to say that what later came to be known as extraparliamentary activity did not have any place in the work of earlier scientists; philosophers, the…
Protest, television, newspapers, and the public: Who influences whom
This study analyzes three related questions: To what extent does TV influence its audience, the newspapers, and the tactics of public pressure groups based on the existence and availability of TV in general? The study is based on a 52‐day national TV strike in Israel in late 1987, with the following aspects investigated: the change in traffic accident and public protest frequency during the strike period; the change in number of articles and phot…
Religious Protest and Police Reaction in a Theo-Democracy: Israel, 1950-1979
Sam Lehman-Wilzig, B.A., Ph.D., Giora Goldberg, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.; Religious Protest and Police Reaction in a Theo-Democracy: Israel, 1950–1979, Journal of
Hard news, soft news, ‘general’ news: The necessity and utility of an intermediate classification
For at least the past three decades journalism scholars have focused on two types of news — soft and hard — without reassessing these categories or adding to them. The present article investigates whether such neglect is warranted, through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews with 32 journalists and editors from the three main Israeli dailies: Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Haaretz. The findings argue strongly for a third, intermediate category of…
Loyalty, Voice, and Quasi-Exit: Israel as a Case Study of Proliferating Alternative Politics
Until around the time of World War II, science tended to focus almost exclusively on institutional or traditional modes of activity. Legislation, public law, the interrelationship and inner dynamics of the branches of government, and similar elements were the central foci of the discipline. This is not to say that what later came to be known as extraparliamentary activity did not have any place in the work of earlier scientists; philosophers, the…
The natural life cycle of new media evolution: Inter-media struggle for survival in the internet age
This article analyzes the evolution of the internet, with special emphasis on its impact on older media in their struggle to survive. The analysis is based on a 6-stage, natural life cycle model of new media evolution, comprising birth (technical invention), penetration, growth, maturity, self-defense, and adaptation, convergence or obsolescence. Our universal model melds several elements of previous theories and analyses from disparate fields su…
The method is the message: Explaining inconsistent findings in gender and news production research
Whether, and how, gender affects the news product is one of the most challenging areas in the field of gender and the media. This article analyzes the impact of specific research methodologies on findings regarding gender news influence - based on survey questionnaires and in-depth interviews of female and male editors working in Israeli public radio, as well as on content analysis of their editorial product. Based on different results obtained f…
Whose News: Does Gender Determine the Editorial Product?
The study reported in this article is a survey of 16 female and 25 male editors in seven Israeli newspapers to examine how gender affects professional news selection. It rated the newsworthiness of 16 different general subject areas, 17 journalism selection criteria, and 24 'concrete' headlines as a simulation. Several editors were also interviewed in-depth. Ninety students of mass communications were surveyed as a control group. The findings ind…
Frankenstein unbound
Is she still ‘the legendary Jewish mother’? a comparative look at Golda Meir’s and Tzipi Livni’s election campaign coverage in the Israeli press
In an attempt to demonstrate how historical changes in public opinion concerning women in politics might be reflected in the media, this article offers an examination of Golda Meir’s 1969 election campaign coverage in the Israeli press compared to Tzipi Livni’s in 2009. Through a gender-focused content analysis of 878 news items, we show how, despite the scholarly argument regarding a ‘gender-blind’ socio-historical attitude towards Meir, the Isr…
A Facebook post is born: Exploring the process of generating MPs’ social media presence
Research on political communication between MPs and the public has focused on the role, activities and perceptions of the members of parliament (MPs) themselves. However, the authors’ prior research demonstrated that in fact social media necessitate a new prism through which to study such communication. The contribution of the present study is to look at this relationship through the heretofore under-researched prism of those who in fact are doin…
Worth an Agora? 2003 E-lection Party Sites and Public Discourse
The Routinization of Media Events: Televised Sports in the Era of Mega-TV
Media events theory, developed by Katz and Dayan in the 1990s, has become one of the most well-known and cited theories in communications research, well-aligned with television’s central role in social life at the time. However, three decades since, in which events have spilled over to other media spaces thereby reshaping the theory’s underlying concept, sports broadcasts have remained a consistently stable source of media events. Although the or…
CEO Branding: Between Theory and Practice — Case Studies of Israeli Corporate Founders
This is the first interdisciplinary study to empirically test a theoretical model described in 2013 by Bendisch, Larsen, and Trueman, regarding the CEO branding process—by comparing three founder CEO brands in Israel. The findings validate the model and display strongly perceived “authenticity” in each case study, strengthening the reliability of the CEO brand. The study clearly shows that each of these successful CEO brands has: a clear brand id…
CEO Brand Equity – Implementation of a Conceptual Model: Comparing CEO Brand Equity during Successful and Crisis Periods
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) brands that shape stakeholders’ perceptions have become a central component of companies’ strategic communication due to the CEO brand’s substantial contribution to the perception of the company’s brand, to its reputation, and thus to its performance.However, the concept of CEO brand equity is still under-researched. This study offers a first-time, empirical implementation of the CEO brand equity conceptual model, co…
Electoral system influence on social network usage patterns of parliamentary assistants as their legislators’ stand-in: The United States, Germany, and Israel
Social networks are generally regarded as channels through which parliamentarians establish direct contact with the public. However, do they engage in these activities personally or rather delegate them to their parliamentary assistants? This study examines the intermediary relationship between parliamentarians and the public (henceforth PAs)—seeking to understand their role in contemporary, political communications. While numerous studies have l…
Silent Partners: How Politicians' Facebook Communication with Constituents is Mediated
Theoretical research on political communication between Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public has focused on the role, activities, and perceptions of the MPs themselves without noting the existence of an intermediate layer: Parliamentary Assistants (PAs). This study examines the presence of PAs in the process of MPs' interactions with the public, and their PA's role in this process. The study investigates the perception that social media inv…
Frankenstein unbound
Religious Protest and Police Reaction in a Theo-Democracy: Israel, 1950-1979
Sam Lehman-Wilzig, B.A., Ph.D., Giora Goldberg, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.; Religious Protest and Police Reaction in a Theo-Democracy: Israel, 1950–1979, Journal of
Protest, television, newspapers, and the public: Who influences whom
This study analyzes three related questions: To what extent does TV influence its audience, the newspapers, and the tactics of public pressure groups based on the existence and availability of TV in general? The study is based on a 52‐day national TV strike in Israel in late 1987, with the following aspects investigated: the change in traffic accident and public protest frequency during the strike period; the change in number of articles and phot…
Loyalty, Voice, and Quasi-Exit: Israel as a Case Study of Proliferating Alternative Politics
Until around the time of World War II, science tended to focus almost exclusively on institutional or traditional modes of activity. Legislation, public law, the interrelationship and inner dynamics of the branches of government, and similar elements were the central foci of the discipline. This is not to say that what later came to be known as extraparliamentary activity did not have any place in the work of earlier scientists; philosophers, the…
Wildfire: Grassroots Revolts in Israel in the Post-Socialist Era
The media campaign: The negative effects of positive campaigning
The Tower of Babel vs the Power of Babble: Future Political, Economic and Cultural Consequences of Synchronous, Automated Translation Systems (Sats)
Since the dawn of human history, language differences have served as a barrier to full intercultural and international communication. The recent advent of synchronous, automatic translation systems (SATS), incorporated into the internet, are but the first sign of a communications revolution as profound as the invention of print. This article briefly surveys the following: (1) text/speech recognition and translation problems; (2) current developme…
La Bell(e) epoque? A comparison of party platform and television propaganda ideology in the 1999 Israeli elections
Whose News: Does Gender Determine the Editorial Product?
The study reported in this article is a survey of 16 female and 25 male editors in seven Israeli newspapers to examine how gender affects professional news selection. It rated the newsworthiness of 16 different general subject areas, 17 journalism selection criteria, and 24 'concrete' headlines as a simulation. Several editors were also interviewed in-depth. Ninety students of mass communications were surveyed as a control group. The findings ind…
The natural life cycle of new media evolution: Inter-media struggle for survival in the internet age
This article analyzes the evolution of the internet, with special emphasis on its impact on older media in their struggle to survive. The analysis is based on a 6-stage, natural life cycle model of new media evolution, comprising birth (technical invention), penetration, growth, maturity, self-defense, and adaptation, convergence or obsolescence. Our universal model melds several elements of previous theories and analyses from disparate fields su…
Worth an Agora? 2003 E-lection Party Sites and Public Discourse
The method is the message: Explaining inconsistent findings in gender and news production research
Whether, and how, gender affects the news product is one of the most challenging areas in the field of gender and the media. This article analyzes the impact of specific research methodologies on findings regarding gender news influence - based on survey questionnaires and in-depth interviews of female and male editors working in Israeli public radio, as well as on content analysis of their editorial product. Based on different results obtained f…
The Media in the 2006 Israeli Elections: Who's Manufacturing Consent? Framing the Spin-Doctors
Hard news, soft news, ‘general’ news: The necessity and utility of an intermediate classification
For at least the past three decades journalism scholars have focused on two types of news — soft and hard — without reassessing these categories or adding to them. The present article investigates whether such neglect is warranted, through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews with 32 journalists and editors from the three main Israeli dailies: Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Haaretz. The findings argue strongly for a third, intermediate category of…
"He Will Take Care of our Security Better than Her" Examining Socio-Cultural Conceptions of Gender in Israeli and American Press Coverage of Female Candidates for Top Political Positions, 2008-2009
This study argues that distinct differences between two cultures and two political campaigns, may result in different press coverage of women running for leadership positions. To demonstrate this, we undertook a content analysis of Tzipi Livni’s and Hillary Clinton's 2008-2009 campaigns in four Israeli and American popular and elite newspapers, examining coverage of nine gender-oriented media frameworks. We found that while the press in both coun…
A Facebook post is born: Exploring the process of generating MPs’ social media presence
Research on political communication between MPs and the public has focused on the role, activities and perceptions of the members of parliament (MPs) themselves. However, the authors’ prior research demonstrated that in fact social media necessitate a new prism through which to study such communication. The contribution of the present study is to look at this relationship through the heretofore under-researched prism of those who in fact are doin…
CEO Branding: Between Theory and Practice — Case Studies of Israeli Corporate Founders
This is the first interdisciplinary study to empirically test a theoretical model described in 2013 by Bendisch, Larsen, and Trueman, regarding the CEO branding process—by comparing three founder CEO brands in Israel. The findings validate the model and display strongly perceived “authenticity” in each case study, strengthening the reliability of the CEO brand. The study clearly shows that each of these successful CEO brands has: a clear brand id…
Is she still ‘the legendary Jewish mother’? a comparative look at Golda Meir’s and Tzipi Livni’s election campaign coverage in the Israeli press
In an attempt to demonstrate how historical changes in public opinion concerning women in politics might be reflected in the media, this article offers an examination of Golda Meir’s 1969 election campaign coverage in the Israeli press compared to Tzipi Livni’s in 2009. Through a gender-focused content analysis of 878 news items, we show how, despite the scholarly argument regarding a ‘gender-blind’ socio-historical attitude towards Meir, the Isr…
Political 'Postwriting' on Facebook: Public Perceptions About Parliamentarians' (Un)Real SNS Involvement
Theoretical research on political communication between MPs and the public has focused on the role, activities, and perceptions of the MPs themselves without noting the existence of an intermediate layer: parliamentary assistants (PAs). This study attempts to investigate how the public perceives, practically and ethically, the (non)involvement of MPs, that is, reliance on PAs for SNSs (social network sites) communication with the public and to fi…
Silent Partners: How Politicians' Facebook Communication with Constituents is Mediated
Theoretical research on political communication between Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public has focused on the role, activities, and perceptions of the MPs themselves without noting the existence of an intermediate layer: Parliamentary Assistants (PAs). This study examines the presence of PAs in the process of MPs' interactions with the public, and their PA's role in this process. The study investigates the perception that social media inv…
Electoral system influence on social network usage patterns of parliamentary assistants as their legislators’ stand-in: The United States, Germany, and Israel
Social networks are generally regarded as channels through which parliamentarians establish direct contact with the public. However, do they engage in these activities personally or rather delegate them to their parliamentary assistants? This study examines the intermediary relationship between parliamentarians and the public (henceforth PAs)—seeking to understand their role in contemporary, political communications. While numerous studies have l…
Virtuality and Humanity: Virtual Practice and Its Evolution from Pre-History to the 21st Century
Digital Promotion of Suicide: A Platform-Level Ethical Analysis
This article utilizes Aristotelian and Kantian philosophies to probe the social responsibilities of internet intermediaries that in one way or another assist and promote suicide. Striking a balance between freedom of expression and social responsibility, it is argued that several actors should be involved in restricting or eliminating live-streaming suicide, sites that encourage and facilitate suicide, and insult forums that drive people, especia…
CEO Brand Equity – Implementation of a Conceptual Model: Comparing CEO Brand Equity during Successful and Crisis Periods
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) brands that shape stakeholders’ perceptions have become a central component of companies’ strategic communication due to the CEO brand’s substantial contribution to the perception of the company’s brand, to its reputation, and thus to its performance.However, the concept of CEO brand equity is still under-researched. This study offers a first-time, empirical implementation of the CEO brand equity conceptual model, co…
The Routinization of Media Events: Televised Sports in the Era of Mega-TV
Media events theory, developed by Katz and Dayan in the 1990s, has become one of the most well-known and cited theories in communications research, well-aligned with television’s central role in social life at the time. However, three decades since, in which events have spilled over to other media spaces thereby reshaping the theory’s underlying concept, sports broadcasts have remained a consistently stable source of media events. Although the or…
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