Noam Gal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4994609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noam Gal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noam |
| FAMILY NAME | Gal |
| SIGNATURE | GAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6120-9498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Temporal patterns of smartphone-mediated digital engagement and mental health symptomatology
Current ubiquitous information and communication technologies are reshaping human behaviours and could have profound implications for mental health. To investigate the dynamic patterns of daily interactions with the digital environment-particularly via smartphones-a novel, ecological approach is implemented which incorporates the use of innovative sensors. Data was collected from 31 healthy individuals from the general population living in Jerusa…
And they say Leftists have no sense of humour’
Sanctioning of misinterpretation participates in boundary work. • Boundary work is influenced by participation structures and levels of explicitness. • The failed interpreter – termed “un-addressee” – also plays a central role. Misinterpretations are an integral part of social interaction. They participate in the meaning-making process of the interaction, but also play a wider social role. The context collapse characterising social media advances…
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…
Facing Photographic Acts (After Allan Sekula)
In this article, I pay tribute to Allan Sekula’s essay “The Body and the Archive” (1986), a canonical text in the bibliographies of the history of photography, and explores its parallel bearings on making art and teaching art history today. Following Sekula’s pioneering investigations into the early photographic mechanisms of surveillance, archiving, and social control, I analyze the creative practice of two contemporary camera artists, Tomoko Sa…
When Seeing Expires
SRSLY?? A typology of online ironic markers
Social media constitute a fertile though challenging arena for the use of ironic humor. A combination of facilitating and hindering factors turns the production and identification of irony in this sphere into a complex venture, positioning it as a powerful tool in consolidating group boundaries. The main aims of this paper are to identify the markers of ironic humor on social media and to explicate their workings within the dynamics of digital in…
Joint spectatorship
By experimenting with a practice called Joint Spectatorship several questions from the heart of the philosophy of photography are brought to consideration: the relation between the medium of photography and the idea of looking; the difference between seeing art and making sense of the art seen; the political aspects of collective spectatorship in public spaces; and the consequences that alternative pedagogies have on the divide between the univer…
Ironic humor on social media as participatory boundary work
This article explores the use of irony for boundary work in social media. It suggests that the combination of the polysemy inherent to ironic humor and new decontextualized digital environments entails greater potential for misinterpretation, thus turning humorous interactions into segregating tools. Using the case of left-wing mockery of a far-right-wing group in Israel, I trace the ways in which online irony serves as a means for social consoli…
It Gets Better”
In September 2010, a video titled “It Gets Better” was uploaded to YouTube, responding to suicides of gay teens who had suffered from homophobic bullying. Before long, thousands of Internet users added their own versions of the clip, creating a mass appeal to young people while simultaneously negotiating the norms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) collective identity. Conceptualizing this body of videos as an Internet meme,…
A way with nature
This essay inquires into the status of the category of nature in contemporary critical theory of culture, as well as the possible environmental consequences of the interpretation of nature representations. By introducing environmental issues to literary analysis, I wish to draw attention to alternative approaches to 'the natural' in the frame of our critical methodologies and pedagogic practices. I borrow Antonio Gramsci's formulations of the 'or…
A note on the use of animals for remapping victimhood in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
This article aims to join a growing number of studies which examine how animals, especially dogs, are used in J.M. Coetzee's celebrated novel Disgrace (2000 Coetzee, J. M. 2000 [1999]. Disgrace, London: Vintage. [Google Scholar]). Disgrace exposes in a unique manner the connections between the moral issues of animal rights and the ethical issues of the post‐apartheid state. By focusing on the role of animals not as metaphors but rather as charact…
It Gets Better”
In September 2010, a video titled “It Gets Better” was uploaded to YouTube, responding to suicides of gay teens who had suffered from homophobic bullying. Before long, thousands of Internet users added their own versions of the clip, creating a mass appeal to young people while simultaneously negotiating the norms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) collective identity. Conceptualizing this body of videos as an Internet meme,…
Ironic humor on social media as participatory boundary work
This article explores the use of irony for boundary work in social media. It suggests that the combination of the polysemy inherent to ironic humor and new decontextualized digital environments entails greater potential for misinterpretation, thus turning humorous interactions into segregating tools. Using the case of left-wing mockery of a far-right-wing group in Israel, I trace the ways in which online irony serves as a means for social consoli…
A note on the use of animals for remapping victimhood in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
This article aims to join a growing number of studies which examine how animals, especially dogs, are used in J.M. Coetzee's celebrated novel Disgrace (2000 Coetzee, J. M. 2000 [1999]. Disgrace, London: Vintage. [Google Scholar]). Disgrace exposes in a unique manner the connections between the moral issues of animal rights and the ethical issues of the post‐apartheid state. By focusing on the role of animals not as metaphors but rather as charact…
A note on the use of animals for remapping victimhood in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
This article aims to join a growing number of studies which examine how animals, especially dogs, are used in J.M. Coetzee's celebrated novel Disgrace (2000 Coetzee, J. M. 2000 [1999]. Disgrace, London: Vintage. [Google Scholar]). Disgrace exposes in a unique manner the connections between the moral issues of animal rights and the ethical issues of the post‐apartheid state. By focusing on the role of animals not as metaphors but rather as charact…
A way with nature
This essay inquires into the status of the category of nature in contemporary critical theory of culture, as well as the possible environmental consequences of the interpretation of nature representations. By introducing environmental issues to literary analysis, I wish to draw attention to alternative approaches to 'the natural' in the frame of our critical methodologies and pedagogic practices. I borrow Antonio Gramsci's formulations of the 'or…
It Gets Better”
In September 2010, a video titled “It Gets Better” was uploaded to YouTube, responding to suicides of gay teens who had suffered from homophobic bullying. Before long, thousands of Internet users added their own versions of the clip, creating a mass appeal to young people while simultaneously negotiating the norms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) collective identity. Conceptualizing this body of videos as an Internet meme,…
Ironic humor on social media as participatory boundary work
This article explores the use of irony for boundary work in social media. It suggests that the combination of the polysemy inherent to ironic humor and new decontextualized digital environments entails greater potential for misinterpretation, thus turning humorous interactions into segregating tools. Using the case of left-wing mockery of a far-right-wing group in Israel, I trace the ways in which online irony serves as a means for social consoli…
When Seeing Expires
SRSLY?? A typology of online ironic markers
Social media constitute a fertile though challenging arena for the use of ironic humor. A combination of facilitating and hindering factors turns the production and identification of irony in this sphere into a complex venture, positioning it as a powerful tool in consolidating group boundaries. The main aims of this paper are to identify the markers of ironic humor on social media and to explicate their workings within the dynamics of digital in…
Joint spectatorship
By experimenting with a practice called Joint Spectatorship several questions from the heart of the philosophy of photography are brought to consideration: the relation between the medium of photography and the idea of looking; the difference between seeing art and making sense of the art seen; the political aspects of collective spectatorship in public spaces; and the consequences that alternative pedagogies have on the divide between the univer…
Facing Photographic Acts (After Allan Sekula)
In this article, I pay tribute to Allan Sekula’s essay “The Body and the Archive” (1986), a canonical text in the bibliographies of the history of photography, and explores its parallel bearings on making art and teaching art history today. Following Sekula’s pioneering investigations into the early photographic mechanisms of surveillance, archiving, and social control, I analyze the creative practice of two contemporary camera artists, Tomoko Sa…
Temporal patterns of smartphone-mediated digital engagement and mental health symptomatology
Current ubiquitous information and communication technologies are reshaping human behaviours and could have profound implications for mental health. To investigate the dynamic patterns of daily interactions with the digital environment-particularly via smartphones-a novel, ecological approach is implemented which incorporates the use of innovative sensors. Data was collected from 31 healthy individuals from the general population living in Jerusa…
And they say Leftists have no sense of humour’
Sanctioning of misinterpretation participates in boundary work. • Boundary work is influenced by participation structures and levels of explicitness. • The failed interpreter – termed “un-addressee” – also plays a central role. Misinterpretations are an integral part of social interaction. They participate in the meaning-making process of the interaction, but also play a wider social role. The context collapse characterising social media advances…
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…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)