Tamar Ashuri
Biographic Data
| ID | 4209322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamar Ashuri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashuri |
| SIGNATURE | ASHURI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6568-0981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Data Frames”
Journalistic Epistemic Authority in the Age of AI
Amit M. Schejter, Baruch Shomron, Muhammad Abu-Jaffar, Ghalia Abu-Kaf, Jonathan Mendels, Shula Mola, Malka Shacham, Amneh Al Sharha, and Noam Tirosh, Digital Capabilities
If there is one thing media scholars of Israel quickly realize, it is that no simple framework survives contact with Israeli reality-a state established by immigrants while still absorbing immigrants, built on land already populated by other communities, and governed through overlapping regimes of citizenship, religion, ethnicity, and occupation.If there are two things, the second is that whatever framework does survive will promptly be accused o…
Networked biopower
This study fucuses on data-driven personalization in healthcare (DDPH), an umbrella term for collection, storage, and analysis of big individual data with a view to providing patient-specific healthcare solutions, including customized treatments, and disease prevention. Interviews with prominent figures in public healthcare in Israel and Estonia revealed their socio-technical imaginaries regarding DDPH trends. The analysis draws on the Foucauldia…
Do mobile phone numbers have politics? The case of mobile phones in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel
This study examines the political economy of mobile phone numbers, highlighting how leaderships use socio-economic policies to govern number allocation as a tool for surveillance and control. Focusing on the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, this research examines how leadership restricts exposure to secular content through a socio-economic enforcement system that identifies community members who use unauthorized internet-enabled mobile …
Data solutionism at work
In recent years, public institutions have turned to data-driven firms for solutions to the many complex operational challenges they face. This study explores the growing ties between public institutions and data-driven firms by focusing on the case of the Tel Aviv Municipality and a (data-driven) startup accelerator it established in the city. Based on semi-structured interviews with the Municipality staff and with representatives of the data-dri…
Shadowy knowledge infrastructures
Changes associated with Internet technologies, including mobile devices, ubiquitous computing, and big data, have altered the basic mechanics whereby human knowledge is produced and circulated. This article discusses newfangled data-driven knowledge agents which emerged in the wake of these major transformations and which are termed here ‘Shadowy Knowledge Infrastructural Platforms’ (SKI). SKI, are conceived as data-driven infrastructural platfor…
Online self-disclosure
The term “self-disclosure” refers to actions by which individuals reveal information about themselves. The interest in such conduct has resurged with the development of networked participatory technologies, which enable creation, dissemination, analysis, and use of large amounts of personal information, thereby increasingly augmenting the effect of online self-disclosure on disclosers and disclosees. This article reviews 309 empirical studies abo…
Trusting the untrustable
Informed by the signaling theory, we argue that the use of social media by both politicians and potential voters may mitigate the information asymmetry between them. A politician normally strives to construct an idealized image of herself, and is therefore eager to convey to the public reliable information regarding her unobservable personal qualities that are conducive to this purpose. Voters, for their part, are interested in obtaining informat…
Film regulation and the construction of a nation
This study looks at cultural policy through the analytical lens of two major theories of mass media that are considered of major significance in understanding the reproductive roles of media in nation building and maintenance. Focusing on the Israeli context, it examines the reciprocal relations between the State of Israel during its first decade of independence and its developing cinema industry. It highlights the institutionalised processes thr…
Watching Me Watching You
Many explanations have been proposed regarding people's willingness to disclose information on social network sites (SNSs). Focussing on the reciprocal nature of such sites, this study explores the significant role observational learning (OL) plays in determining users' willingness to self-disclose information on Facebook. It demonstrates how the ability to view other users' actions—and the rewards and setbacks they encounter—impinge on their ris…
Losers” and “Winners”
The intensification of online disclosure of personal information, coupled with the ability to link personal information to those who disclose it, poses important questions regarding the benefits and risks associated with sharing of personal data. This article examines the manifestation of these concerns in news media. Guided by framing theory, it seeks to ascertain the prevailing frames for personal information sharing and to determine whether su…
How flat organizations filter
The development of affordable Internet-based tools and platforms has led to major transformations in organizational dynamics. One key change is the shift of agency from center to ends and the consequent emergence of decentralized (networked) organizations. Focusing on the realm of collective action, we suggest that organizational configurations constructed around participants with greater agency induce organizations to promote new filtering tacti…
Collective Action Recruitment in a Digital Age
The ways in which various groups use affordable Internet-based tools to expand the scope and variety of their members is well documented. We focus on the means they develop for identifying “suitable” members. Drawing on signaling theory, we offer a framework for analyzing recruitment practices in a digital media environment. We demonstrate that despite the differences among groups, a common logic guiding filtering behavior is the search for cost-…
Online/offscreen
As televised news content is no longer being solely produced by professionals and consumed by family members staring at the box, the traditional television industry has entered a new era. This article introduces a set of theoretical propositions relating to the industry’s responses to such changes and, in particular, to the implementation of networked technologies and social media in television news organizations. The technological frames analyti…
When Online News was New
I explore the manner in which the internet, when first commercialized, impacted on structural shifts in the journalistic environment. In particular, I consider the changes in and perseverance of established structures, which I label framing, trusting, and timing, as traditional news producers expand their strategies from newspaper publication alone to online news dissemination. Relying on the structuration approach, I describe how the structural …
Envisioning the Internet
When incorporating networked technologies, many established organizations face immense challenges, as these media involve new economic and cultural components. Predictions based on models concerning the incorporation of the so-called ‘disruptive innovations’ in established firms, are being offered in this article, viewing networked technologies as ‘disruptive innovations’. The study underscores the obstacles that limit implementation of such tech…
(Web)sites of memory and the rise of moral mnemonic agents
This article underscores the ethical dimension of collective memory and examines how the advent of digital networked technologies challenges the mechanisms society employs to deny memories of immoral acts. The study will be grounded on an analysis of two organizations’ websites. The first was designed by members of Machsom Watch – an all-female organization whose members monitor the human rights of Palestinians at checkpoints set up by the Israel…
Moral journalists
The article examines how online journalism fosters new models of journalism that challenge journalistic values associated with modern era journalism. It focuses on the shift from ‘objective’ journalism to an ethical journalistic practice that aims to publicize a reality of suffering that is marginalized or even denied. We argue that the digital platforms facilitate the emergence of a new journalistic model – the model of the ‘moral journalist’. U…
The Arab–Israeli Conflict in the Media
The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This has profoundly altered the way 'historical truth' and shared memory are constructed and conveyed. Here Ashuri provides a groundbreaking study of the changes through the vantage point of an illuminating mode of television production, international co-productions. By taking an example based on current events in the …
Media witnessing in asymmetric conflict
This paper aims to demonstrate the relevance of media witnessing – the witnessing performed in, by, and through the media – in situations of asymmetric conflict. The expansion of media technologies has brought new opportunities for both individuals and organizations to bear witness to events and broadcast their reports to increasingly wider audiences. Practices of media witnessing have become crucial in situations of asymmetric conflict, where th…
Negotiating Distances
This article considers the moral and ethical implications of television representation in a global age. It focuses on the role of the television industry in challenging and changing the distance between the remote and proximate, the foreign and familiar. The emphasis is on the institutional processes that enable as well as circumscribe these sorts of presentations. At the core are economic collaborations for the making of television documentaries…
Television tension
This article examines the manner in which recent trends towards globalization and commercialization in the media impinge on the construction of collective (national) memory. Concentrating on the economics of television documentaries, it considers the way in which memory can be manipulated to signal national and historical differences. This issue is explored through the vantage point of a particular mode of television production, international co-…
The nation remembers
This article explores the impact of recent trends towards globalisation on the ways in which national identity and 'shared memory' find expression in the media. Concentrating on television documentaries produced through international co- productions, I show how national consciousness became a key ideological component in the construction of televised narratives. This illustration will be made through the examination of a particular co-produced te…
Moral journalists
The article examines how online journalism fosters new models of journalism that challenge journalistic values associated with modern era journalism. It focuses on the shift from ‘objective’ journalism to an ethical journalistic practice that aims to publicize a reality of suffering that is marginalized or even denied. We argue that the digital platforms facilitate the emergence of a new journalistic model – the model of the ‘moral journalist’. U…
The nation remembers
This article explores the impact of recent trends towards globalisation on the ways in which national identity and 'shared memory' find expression in the media. Concentrating on television documentaries produced through international co- productions, I show how national consciousness became a key ideological component in the construction of televised narratives. This illustration will be made through the examination of a particular co-produced te…
Online/offscreen
As televised news content is no longer being solely produced by professionals and consumed by family members staring at the box, the traditional television industry has entered a new era. This article introduces a set of theoretical propositions relating to the industry’s responses to such changes and, in particular, to the implementation of networked technologies and social media in television news organizations. The technological frames analyti…
(Web)sites of memory and the rise of moral mnemonic agents
This article underscores the ethical dimension of collective memory and examines how the advent of digital networked technologies challenges the mechanisms society employs to deny memories of immoral acts. The study will be grounded on an analysis of two organizations’ websites. The first was designed by members of Machsom Watch – an all-female organization whose members monitor the human rights of Palestinians at checkpoints set up by the Israel…
Negotiating Distances
This article considers the moral and ethical implications of television representation in a global age. It focuses on the role of the television industry in challenging and changing the distance between the remote and proximate, the foreign and familiar. The emphasis is on the institutional processes that enable as well as circumscribe these sorts of presentations. At the core are economic collaborations for the making of television documentaries…
Watching Me Watching You
Many explanations have been proposed regarding people's willingness to disclose information on social network sites (SNSs). Focussing on the reciprocal nature of such sites, this study explores the significant role observational learning (OL) plays in determining users' willingness to self-disclose information on Facebook. It demonstrates how the ability to view other users' actions—and the rewards and setbacks they encounter—impinge on their ris…
Collective Action Recruitment in a Digital Age
The ways in which various groups use affordable Internet-based tools to expand the scope and variety of their members is well documented. We focus on the means they develop for identifying “suitable” members. Drawing on signaling theory, we offer a framework for analyzing recruitment practices in a digital media environment. We demonstrate that despite the differences among groups, a common logic guiding filtering behavior is the search for cost-…
Media witnessing in asymmetric conflict
This paper aims to demonstrate the relevance of media witnessing – the witnessing performed in, by, and through the media – in situations of asymmetric conflict. The expansion of media technologies has brought new opportunities for both individuals and organizations to bear witness to events and broadcast their reports to increasingly wider audiences. Practices of media witnessing have become crucial in situations of asymmetric conflict, where th…
Television tension
This article examines the manner in which recent trends towards globalization and commercialization in the media impinge on the construction of collective (national) memory. Concentrating on the economics of television documentaries, it considers the way in which memory can be manipulated to signal national and historical differences. This issue is explored through the vantage point of a particular mode of television production, international co-…
Online self-disclosure
The term “self-disclosure” refers to actions by which individuals reveal information about themselves. The interest in such conduct has resurged with the development of networked participatory technologies, which enable creation, dissemination, analysis, and use of large amounts of personal information, thereby increasingly augmenting the effect of online self-disclosure on disclosers and disclosees. This article reviews 309 empirical studies abo…
Trusting the untrustable
Informed by the signaling theory, we argue that the use of social media by both politicians and potential voters may mitigate the information asymmetry between them. A politician normally strives to construct an idealized image of herself, and is therefore eager to convey to the public reliable information regarding her unobservable personal qualities that are conducive to this purpose. Voters, for their part, are interested in obtaining informat…
When Online News was New
I explore the manner in which the internet, when first commercialized, impacted on structural shifts in the journalistic environment. In particular, I consider the changes in and perseverance of established structures, which I label framing, trusting, and timing, as traditional news producers expand their strategies from newspaper publication alone to online news dissemination. Relying on the structuration approach, I describe how the structural …
The nation remembers
This article explores the impact of recent trends towards globalisation on the ways in which national identity and 'shared memory' find expression in the media. Concentrating on television documentaries produced through international co- productions, I show how national consciousness became a key ideological component in the construction of televised narratives. This illustration will be made through the examination of a particular co-produced te…
Television tension
This article examines the manner in which recent trends towards globalization and commercialization in the media impinge on the construction of collective (national) memory. Concentrating on the economics of television documentaries, it considers the way in which memory can be manipulated to signal national and historical differences. This issue is explored through the vantage point of a particular mode of television production, international co-…
Negotiating Distances
This article considers the moral and ethical implications of television representation in a global age. It focuses on the role of the television industry in challenging and changing the distance between the remote and proximate, the foreign and familiar. The emphasis is on the institutional processes that enable as well as circumscribe these sorts of presentations. At the core are economic collaborations for the making of television documentaries…
The Arab–Israeli Conflict in the Media
The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This has profoundly altered the way 'historical truth' and shared memory are constructed and conveyed. Here Ashuri provides a groundbreaking study of the changes through the vantage point of an illuminating mode of television production, international co-productions. By taking an example based on current events in the …
Media witnessing in asymmetric conflict
This paper aims to demonstrate the relevance of media witnessing – the witnessing performed in, by, and through the media – in situations of asymmetric conflict. The expansion of media technologies has brought new opportunities for both individuals and organizations to bear witness to events and broadcast their reports to increasingly wider audiences. Practices of media witnessing have become crucial in situations of asymmetric conflict, where th…
(Web)sites of memory and the rise of moral mnemonic agents
This article underscores the ethical dimension of collective memory and examines how the advent of digital networked technologies challenges the mechanisms society employs to deny memories of immoral acts. The study will be grounded on an analysis of two organizations’ websites. The first was designed by members of Machsom Watch – an all-female organization whose members monitor the human rights of Palestinians at checkpoints set up by the Israel…
Moral journalists
The article examines how online journalism fosters new models of journalism that challenge journalistic values associated with modern era journalism. It focuses on the shift from ‘objective’ journalism to an ethical journalistic practice that aims to publicize a reality of suffering that is marginalized or even denied. We argue that the digital platforms facilitate the emergence of a new journalistic model – the model of the ‘moral journalist’. U…
Envisioning the Internet
When incorporating networked technologies, many established organizations face immense challenges, as these media involve new economic and cultural components. Predictions based on models concerning the incorporation of the so-called ‘disruptive innovations’ in established firms, are being offered in this article, viewing networked technologies as ‘disruptive innovations’. The study underscores the obstacles that limit implementation of such tech…
When Online News was New
I explore the manner in which the internet, when first commercialized, impacted on structural shifts in the journalistic environment. In particular, I consider the changes in and perseverance of established structures, which I label framing, trusting, and timing, as traditional news producers expand their strategies from newspaper publication alone to online news dissemination. Relying on the structuration approach, I describe how the structural …
Online/offscreen
As televised news content is no longer being solely produced by professionals and consumed by family members staring at the box, the traditional television industry has entered a new era. This article introduces a set of theoretical propositions relating to the industry’s responses to such changes and, in particular, to the implementation of networked technologies and social media in television news organizations. The technological frames analyti…
How flat organizations filter
The development of affordable Internet-based tools and platforms has led to major transformations in organizational dynamics. One key change is the shift of agency from center to ends and the consequent emergence of decentralized (networked) organizations. Focusing on the realm of collective action, we suggest that organizational configurations constructed around participants with greater agency induce organizations to promote new filtering tacti…
Collective Action Recruitment in a Digital Age
The ways in which various groups use affordable Internet-based tools to expand the scope and variety of their members is well documented. We focus on the means they develop for identifying “suitable” members. Drawing on signaling theory, we offer a framework for analyzing recruitment practices in a digital media environment. We demonstrate that despite the differences among groups, a common logic guiding filtering behavior is the search for cost-…
Losers” and “Winners”
The intensification of online disclosure of personal information, coupled with the ability to link personal information to those who disclose it, poses important questions regarding the benefits and risks associated with sharing of personal data. This article examines the manifestation of these concerns in news media. Guided by framing theory, it seeks to ascertain the prevailing frames for personal information sharing and to determine whether su…
Watching Me Watching You
Many explanations have been proposed regarding people's willingness to disclose information on social network sites (SNSs). Focussing on the reciprocal nature of such sites, this study explores the significant role observational learning (OL) plays in determining users' willingness to self-disclose information on Facebook. It demonstrates how the ability to view other users' actions—and the rewards and setbacks they encounter—impinge on their ris…
Film regulation and the construction of a nation
This study looks at cultural policy through the analytical lens of two major theories of mass media that are considered of major significance in understanding the reproductive roles of media in nation building and maintenance. Focusing on the Israeli context, it examines the reciprocal relations between the State of Israel during its first decade of independence and its developing cinema industry. It highlights the institutionalised processes thr…
Trusting the untrustable
Informed by the signaling theory, we argue that the use of social media by both politicians and potential voters may mitigate the information asymmetry between them. A politician normally strives to construct an idealized image of herself, and is therefore eager to convey to the public reliable information regarding her unobservable personal qualities that are conducive to this purpose. Voters, for their part, are interested in obtaining informat…
Shadowy knowledge infrastructures
Changes associated with Internet technologies, including mobile devices, ubiquitous computing, and big data, have altered the basic mechanics whereby human knowledge is produced and circulated. This article discusses newfangled data-driven knowledge agents which emerged in the wake of these major transformations and which are termed here ‘Shadowy Knowledge Infrastructural Platforms’ (SKI). SKI, are conceived as data-driven infrastructural platfor…
Online self-disclosure
The term “self-disclosure” refers to actions by which individuals reveal information about themselves. The interest in such conduct has resurged with the development of networked participatory technologies, which enable creation, dissemination, analysis, and use of large amounts of personal information, thereby increasingly augmenting the effect of online self-disclosure on disclosers and disclosees. This article reviews 309 empirical studies abo…
Networked biopower
This study fucuses on data-driven personalization in healthcare (DDPH), an umbrella term for collection, storage, and analysis of big individual data with a view to providing patient-specific healthcare solutions, including customized treatments, and disease prevention. Interviews with prominent figures in public healthcare in Israel and Estonia revealed their socio-technical imaginaries regarding DDPH trends. The analysis draws on the Foucauldia…
Do mobile phone numbers have politics? The case of mobile phones in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel
This study examines the political economy of mobile phone numbers, highlighting how leaderships use socio-economic policies to govern number allocation as a tool for surveillance and control. Focusing on the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, this research examines how leadership restricts exposure to secular content through a socio-economic enforcement system that identifies community members who use unauthorized internet-enabled mobile …
Data solutionism at work
In recent years, public institutions have turned to data-driven firms for solutions to the many complex operational challenges they face. This study explores the growing ties between public institutions and data-driven firms by focusing on the case of the Tel Aviv Municipality and a (data-driven) startup accelerator it established in the city. Based on semi-structured interviews with the Municipality staff and with representatives of the data-dri…
“Data Frames”
Journalistic Epistemic Authority in the Age of AI
Amit M. Schejter, Baruch Shomron, Muhammad Abu-Jaffar, Ghalia Abu-Kaf, Jonathan Mendels, Shula Mola, Malka Shacham, Amneh Al Sharha, and Noam Tirosh, Digital Capabilities
If there is one thing media scholars of Israel quickly realize, it is that no simple framework survives contact with Israeli reality-a state established by immigrants while still absorbing immigrants, built on land already populated by other communities, and governed through overlapping regimes of citizenship, religion, ethnicity, and occupation.If there are two things, the second is that whatever framework does survive will promptly be accused o…
Political science (18 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Business (11 works) · Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Internet privacy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works)