Yaron Ariel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaron Ariel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Ariel |
| SIGNATURE | ARIEL Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9705-5416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From privacy paradox to privacy choices
Purpose By integrating the Privacy Calculus Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study aims to examine how knowledge of privacy risks and engagement in online activities influence privacy concerns and privacy-protective behaviors among internet users. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey (n = 500) was administered to a sample of Hebrew-speaking Israeli internet users. Participants completed validated scales measuring the…
Journalistic Norms on Telegram
The rise of social media challenges traditional journalistic norms and routines, prompting a reevaluation of what constitutes journalism and giving rise to a new generation of journalists who face these emerging challenges. This study explores the ethical standards and journalistic norms upheld by alternative news channels on Telegram, mainly as they report on significant events such as the Israel-Hamas war. It examines how content creators on th…
Psychological dynamics and media influence on rumor propagation during the 2023–2024 Israel-Hamas war
This study investigates rumor propagation during the 2023–2024 Israel-Hamas war. By examining the differences between the war's early (first month) and late (ninth month) stages, it explores how state (situational) and trait anxiety and psychological closeness interact with media consumption to affect rumor dissemination. A sample of Jewish Israeli participants was surveyed at the two timepoints. The findings indicated that while the level of rum…
Beyond the Metrics
Digital technologies and social media platforms have reconfigured traditional conceptions of success in Western societies, shifting emphasis from intrinsic flourishing, as articulated through Aristotelian eudaimonia, to externally measured metrics, such as follower counts and engagement rates. Historically, the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE) played a pivotal role in this shift, recasting success as an outward sign of moral worth, thereby facilitatin…
Always on, always anxious
Media Consumption, Social‐Media Political Tracking, and Vote Intention Across Four Back‐to‐Back Israeli Elections (2019–2022)
Objective This study examines how Israel's unprecedented political instability, characterized by five general elections between 2019 and 2022, impacted voter behavior, specifically patterns of media consumption, social media political engagement, and changes in vote intention across consecutive election cycles. Methods Survey data from 2000 Israeli respondents, collected across four election periods, assessed their consumption of traditional, dig…
Analysing political engagement in a multimedia, multi-elections environment
This research delves into the intricate interplay between political trust, political efficacy, and engagement in the political process.Analysing survey data collected from 530 participants during the 2022 elections in Israel, at a time of heightened political instability, the study aims to uncover the nuanced relationships underlying citizens' engagement behaviours.Grounded in political efficacy and political trust theories, the investigation exp…
Fifa World Cup as a Media Event
This study examined the viewing behavior of individuals (N = 515) who watched the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 to understand how second-screen usage may be related to the perception of the broadcast as a media event while considering psychological factors associated with media exposure. media event perception, engagement, transportation, and enjoyment were positively correlated with match-related and negatively correlated with match-unrelated …
The role of engagement and self-disclosure in mitigating loneliness
Inspired by the uses and gratifications theory, this study examines the role of closed women’s Facebook groups in mediating the relationship between various forms of loneliness and perceived gratification among Israeli women. We surveyed 521 female participants to explore the mediating effect of engagement on loneliness and perceived gratification. Our findings suggest that these closed Facebook groups serve as significant platforms for interacti…
Dual screening in dual conflicts
Far away but close at heart? German and Israeli consumption of news concerning the 2022 Russian–Ukrainian war
This study, conducted in Germany and Israel in May 2022, compares German and Israeli news media consumption concerning the Russian–Ukrainian war using a structured online questionnaire. A total of 1,310 and 509 valid questionnaires were completed in Germany and Israel, respectively, examining differences in how news consumers used media to access information. Specifically, objective and subjective proximity to Ukraine and Ukrainians, interest in …
Spreading online rumours during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated severe social, economic, and political implications and challenges in addition to unprecedented health threats and harm. A typical phenomenon associated with emergencies and crises is the spreading of rumours. Social networks have become a popular arena for spreading rumours in various contexts, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study analysed the circumstances under which people might spread such ru…
The Effects of Fragmented and Continuous Interruptions on Online Task Performance
This study examines the effect of online interruptions on task performance. Two hundred and eighty players played a game designed to simulate an online environment decision-making process. The manipulation was achieved through an intervention design. Participants were exposed to messages in six interruption conditions as they played: (i) slow-fragmented text, (ii) fast-fragmented text, (iii) slow-fragmented image, (iv) fast-fragmented image, (v) …
RumorsCovid-19
COVID-19 ushered in almost unprecedented socioeconomic and political challenges. A typical social reaction during such emergencies is rumormongering, which has intensified since the advent of social media. This study explored factors affecting users’ willingness to spread pandemic-related rumors in Wuhan, China and Israel. We tested a multi-variant model of factors affecting the forwarding of COVID-19 rumors. In an online survey conducted in Apri…
Migrating to Social Networks While Watching Televised Sports
The World Cup is among the most popular televised sport events. This case study examined how enjoyment from and transportation into World Cup broadcasts affected WhatsApp use on a second screen. The authors hypothesized a negative correlation between World Cup enjoyment and WhatsApp use (both match related and unrelated), mediated by transportation into the match. Based on an online survey of 454 participants, they found that the more enjoyment t…
If you follow me, I might (mis)lead you
This study investigates the effects of the two leading prime ministerial candidates’ personal Facebook and Twitter accounts and the effects of exposure to the general social media and web discourse in Hebrew on voters’ agendas during Israel’s April 2019 election. All the posts that appeared on the contenders’ accounts at a point in time in each of the four pre-election campaign weeks were analyzed to identify prominent issues. Social media and we…
Rethinking political communication in the digital sphere
Twenty-five years after the first emergence of the Internet in its World Wide Web format, the nexus between the digital sphere and the political communication sphere is no longer disputed. This paper examines the vibrant changes of the relationships between the digital sphere and political communication from the mid-1990s till today. We highlight four stages in this evolving linkage, the last of which is still going through its initial formation …
Social Second Screen
In recent years, changes have taken place in television viewing patterns during live broadcasts of major events. One of the most striking changes is the introduction of “second screens” that accompany viewing. The current study adds to the existing research literature by examining viewing patterns and socialization during the live broadcast of major sports games. Specifically, it examines the use of smartphones and WhatsApp among Israeli viewers …
Smartphone usage among young Israeli adults
The aim of this article is to map smartphone usage among young Israeli adults. Data were gathered using a combined methodological approach, comprising a representative survey of 550 young Israeli adults (21–31 years old), followed by interviews with 60 undergraduate students. Five functions of gratification clusters were analysed. The highest gratification function was the integrative, followed by the cognitive, diversion, emotional, and environm…
Online agenda-setting research
Agenda-setting research has been performed for more than four decades, both in traditional and online media, and the tools employed for this task have been very much accepted by media researchers around the world. Nevertheless, analysis of the public agenda in new media, particularly across social networks, requires re-thinking these same tools, which creates a series of methodological and theoretical challenges. The present paper seeks to illumi…
Trends in public and media agenda-setting during the 2015 Israeli elections
The emergence of new media, primarily social networks, raises questions about the interactions at play between ‘new’ and ‘old’ media in terms of the media and the public agendas. This topic is particularly relevant during elections. By analysing news from three Israeli television channels and using an online monitoring system to analyse user discourse over six weeks preceding Election Day, this article seeks to trace the shaping processes of the …
Fighting, worrying and sharing
This study looks at the roles that WhatsApp, the popular smartphone application, played in the lives of Israeli citizens, who were exposed to war menaces during July 2014. During the war, WhatsApp became the subject of public, media, and political discourse, especially within the context of disseminating information related to combat – ‘authentic’ news items (before they were published in the media) alongside rumors that were devoid of factual ba…
Assessing interactivity in computer-mediated research
Interactivity is not unique to computers or networks and cannot be reserved solely for the discussion of so-called ‘New Media’. Restricting analysis of interactivity to the domain of computerized and new technology alone problematizes comparisons with traditional media as well as with further developments of the new media. This article begins by reviewing some of the leading definitions and by highlighting the primary conceptual development of in…
Fighting, worrying and sharing
This study looks at the roles that WhatsApp, the popular smartphone application, played in the lives of Israeli citizens, who were exposed to war menaces during July 2014. During the war, WhatsApp became the subject of public, media, and political discourse, especially within the context of disseminating information related to combat – ‘authentic’ news items (before they were published in the media) alongside rumors that were devoid of factual ba…
Social Second Screen
In recent years, changes have taken place in television viewing patterns during live broadcasts of major events. One of the most striking changes is the introduction of “second screens” that accompany viewing. The current study adds to the existing research literature by examining viewing patterns and socialization during the live broadcast of major sports games. Specifically, it examines the use of smartphones and WhatsApp among Israeli viewers …
Online agenda-setting research
Agenda-setting research has been performed for more than four decades, both in traditional and online media, and the tools employed for this task have been very much accepted by media researchers around the world. Nevertheless, analysis of the public agenda in new media, particularly across social networks, requires re-thinking these same tools, which creates a series of methodological and theoretical challenges. The present paper seeks to illumi…
Dual screening in dual conflicts
Far away but close at heart? German and Israeli consumption of news concerning the 2022 Russian–Ukrainian war
This study, conducted in Germany and Israel in May 2022, compares German and Israeli news media consumption concerning the Russian–Ukrainian war using a structured online questionnaire. A total of 1,310 and 509 valid questionnaires were completed in Germany and Israel, respectively, examining differences in how news consumers used media to access information. Specifically, objective and subjective proximity to Ukraine and Ukrainians, interest in …
Trends in public and media agenda-setting during the 2015 Israeli elections
The emergence of new media, primarily social networks, raises questions about the interactions at play between ‘new’ and ‘old’ media in terms of the media and the public agendas. This topic is particularly relevant during elections. By analysing news from three Israeli television channels and using an online monitoring system to analyse user discourse over six weeks preceding Election Day, this article seeks to trace the shaping processes of the …
Assessing interactivity in computer-mediated research
Interactivity is not unique to computers or networks and cannot be reserved solely for the discussion of so-called ‘New Media’. Restricting analysis of interactivity to the domain of computerized and new technology alone problematizes comparisons with traditional media as well as with further developments of the new media. This article begins by reviewing some of the leading definitions and by highlighting the primary conceptual development of in…
Fighting, worrying and sharing
This study looks at the roles that WhatsApp, the popular smartphone application, played in the lives of Israeli citizens, who were exposed to war menaces during July 2014. During the war, WhatsApp became the subject of public, media, and political discourse, especially within the context of disseminating information related to combat – ‘authentic’ news items (before they were published in the media) alongside rumors that were devoid of factual ba…
Trends in public and media agenda-setting during the 2015 Israeli elections
The emergence of new media, primarily social networks, raises questions about the interactions at play between ‘new’ and ‘old’ media in terms of the media and the public agendas. This topic is particularly relevant during elections. By analysing news from three Israeli television channels and using an online monitoring system to analyse user discourse over six weeks preceding Election Day, this article seeks to trace the shaping processes of the …
Smartphone usage among young Israeli adults
The aim of this article is to map smartphone usage among young Israeli adults. Data were gathered using a combined methodological approach, comprising a representative survey of 550 young Israeli adults (21–31 years old), followed by interviews with 60 undergraduate students. Five functions of gratification clusters were analysed. The highest gratification function was the integrative, followed by the cognitive, diversion, emotional, and environm…
Online agenda-setting research
Agenda-setting research has been performed for more than four decades, both in traditional and online media, and the tools employed for this task have been very much accepted by media researchers around the world. Nevertheless, analysis of the public agenda in new media, particularly across social networks, requires re-thinking these same tools, which creates a series of methodological and theoretical challenges. The present paper seeks to illumi…
Social Second Screen
In recent years, changes have taken place in television viewing patterns during live broadcasts of major events. One of the most striking changes is the introduction of “second screens” that accompany viewing. The current study adds to the existing research literature by examining viewing patterns and socialization during the live broadcast of major sports games. Specifically, it examines the use of smartphones and WhatsApp among Israeli viewers …
Rethinking political communication in the digital sphere
Twenty-five years after the first emergence of the Internet in its World Wide Web format, the nexus between the digital sphere and the political communication sphere is no longer disputed. This paper examines the vibrant changes of the relationships between the digital sphere and political communication from the mid-1990s till today. We highlight four stages in this evolving linkage, the last of which is still going through its initial formation …
Migrating to Social Networks While Watching Televised Sports
The World Cup is among the most popular televised sport events. This case study examined how enjoyment from and transportation into World Cup broadcasts affected WhatsApp use on a second screen. The authors hypothesized a negative correlation between World Cup enjoyment and WhatsApp use (both match related and unrelated), mediated by transportation into the match. Based on an online survey of 454 participants, they found that the more enjoyment t…
If you follow me, I might (mis)lead you
This study investigates the effects of the two leading prime ministerial candidates’ personal Facebook and Twitter accounts and the effects of exposure to the general social media and web discourse in Hebrew on voters’ agendas during Israel’s April 2019 election. All the posts that appeared on the contenders’ accounts at a point in time in each of the four pre-election campaign weeks were analyzed to identify prominent issues. Social media and we…
Spreading online rumours during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated severe social, economic, and political implications and challenges in addition to unprecedented health threats and harm. A typical phenomenon associated with emergencies and crises is the spreading of rumours. Social networks have become a popular arena for spreading rumours in various contexts, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study analysed the circumstances under which people might spread such ru…
The Effects of Fragmented and Continuous Interruptions on Online Task Performance
This study examines the effect of online interruptions on task performance. Two hundred and eighty players played a game designed to simulate an online environment decision-making process. The manipulation was achieved through an intervention design. Participants were exposed to messages in six interruption conditions as they played: (i) slow-fragmented text, (ii) fast-fragmented text, (iii) slow-fragmented image, (iv) fast-fragmented image, (v) …
RumorsCovid-19
COVID-19 ushered in almost unprecedented socioeconomic and political challenges. A typical social reaction during such emergencies is rumormongering, which has intensified since the advent of social media. This study explored factors affecting users’ willingness to spread pandemic-related rumors in Wuhan, China and Israel. We tested a multi-variant model of factors affecting the forwarding of COVID-19 rumors. In an online survey conducted in Apri…
Far away but close at heart? German and Israeli consumption of news concerning the 2022 Russian–Ukrainian war
This study, conducted in Germany and Israel in May 2022, compares German and Israeli news media consumption concerning the Russian–Ukrainian war using a structured online questionnaire. A total of 1,310 and 509 valid questionnaires were completed in Germany and Israel, respectively, examining differences in how news consumers used media to access information. Specifically, objective and subjective proximity to Ukraine and Ukrainians, interest in …
Analysing political engagement in a multimedia, multi-elections environment
This research delves into the intricate interplay between political trust, political efficacy, and engagement in the political process.Analysing survey data collected from 530 participants during the 2022 elections in Israel, at a time of heightened political instability, the study aims to uncover the nuanced relationships underlying citizens' engagement behaviours.Grounded in political efficacy and political trust theories, the investigation exp…
Fifa World Cup as a Media Event
This study examined the viewing behavior of individuals (N = 515) who watched the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 to understand how second-screen usage may be related to the perception of the broadcast as a media event while considering psychological factors associated with media exposure. media event perception, engagement, transportation, and enjoyment were positively correlated with match-related and negatively correlated with match-unrelated …
The role of engagement and self-disclosure in mitigating loneliness
Inspired by the uses and gratifications theory, this study examines the role of closed women’s Facebook groups in mediating the relationship between various forms of loneliness and perceived gratification among Israeli women. We surveyed 521 female participants to explore the mediating effect of engagement on loneliness and perceived gratification. Our findings suggest that these closed Facebook groups serve as significant platforms for interacti…
Dual screening in dual conflicts
Journalistic Norms on Telegram
The rise of social media challenges traditional journalistic norms and routines, prompting a reevaluation of what constitutes journalism and giving rise to a new generation of journalists who face these emerging challenges. This study explores the ethical standards and journalistic norms upheld by alternative news channels on Telegram, mainly as they report on significant events such as the Israel-Hamas war. It examines how content creators on th…
Psychological dynamics and media influence on rumor propagation during the 2023–2024 Israel-Hamas war
This study investigates rumor propagation during the 2023–2024 Israel-Hamas war. By examining the differences between the war's early (first month) and late (ninth month) stages, it explores how state (situational) and trait anxiety and psychological closeness interact with media consumption to affect rumor dissemination. A sample of Jewish Israeli participants was surveyed at the two timepoints. The findings indicated that while the level of rum…
Beyond the Metrics
Digital technologies and social media platforms have reconfigured traditional conceptions of success in Western societies, shifting emphasis from intrinsic flourishing, as articulated through Aristotelian eudaimonia, to externally measured metrics, such as follower counts and engagement rates. Historically, the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE) played a pivotal role in this shift, recasting success as an outward sign of moral worth, thereby facilitatin…
Always on, always anxious
Media Consumption, Social‐Media Political Tracking, and Vote Intention Across Four Back‐to‐Back Israeli Elections (2019–2022)
Objective This study examines how Israel's unprecedented political instability, characterized by five general elections between 2019 and 2022, impacted voter behavior, specifically patterns of media consumption, social media political engagement, and changes in vote intention across consecutive election cycles. Methods Survey data from 2000 Israeli respondents, collected across four election periods, assessed their consumption of traditional, dig…
From privacy paradox to privacy choices
Purpose By integrating the Privacy Calculus Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study aims to examine how knowledge of privacy risks and engagement in online activities influence privacy concerns and privacy-protective behaviors among internet users. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey (n = 500) was administered to a sample of Hebrew-speaking Israeli internet users. Participants completed validated scales measuring the…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Business (7 works)