Avi Marciano
Biographic Data
| ID | 763431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avi Marciano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avi |
| FAMILY NAME | Marciano |
| SIGNATURE | MARCIANO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2813-6159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The association between parenting styles and location tracking among adolescents: A mediation of relational processes
The interplay of internalized homophobia, compulsive use of dating apps, and mental distress among sexual minority individuals: Two moderated mediation models
The Capabilities Divide: ICT Adoption and Use among Bedouin in Israel
The Bedouin community, a subpopulation of the Arab minority in Israel, has been subject to systematic discrimination throughout the state’s history, including in accessibility to digital services. Based on 25 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Bedouin men and women residing in unrecognised villages – townlets that are not legally designated as municipal entities by the state and therefore lack basic infrastructure – this study asks whether…
Hallucinating a political future: Global press coverage of human and post-human abilities in ChatGPT applications
In November 2022, the tech company OpenAI launched a groundbreaking chatbot model, ChatGPT. This unprecedented chatbot, characterized by an ease of use for lay internet users, gained immediate popularity and attracted extensive media attention. This article examines global press coverage of ChatGPT in peak reporting dates over the first full year of its existence. Based on a qualitative holistic narrative analysis, our findings point to two narra…
Facebook use and body dissatisfaction moderate the association between discrimination and suicidality among LGBQ individuals
There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women
In this study we focus on internet nonuse among Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish women, members of a community that either refrains from using the internet or deploys content-filtering when it does access it in some situations. We conducted in-depth interviews to empirically answer two questions: First, how do ultra-Orthodox women perceive their internet nonuse? Second, what direct and indirect solutions do they create to realize their desired capab…
Offline and online discrimination and mental distress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals: The moderating effect of LGBTQ facebook use
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals experience multiple forms of discrimination both offline and online. Most studies have thus far focused on the association between a few forms of offline discrimination and mental distress in this population. Using data collected from 1,735 Israeli LGB individuals, this study examined the associations between 18 forms of discrimination and mental distress across three distinct spaces – offline, on Face…
Media coverage of Covid-19 state surveillance in Israel: The securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis
Israel, traditionally known as a nation-in-arms, has been undergoing processes of securitization and militarization from its inception to the present day. While several countries have employed surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of coronavirus, Israel was the only country in the world to authorize its internal security agency to track citizens’ cellphones to deal with this civil-medical crisis. Employing a reflexive thematic analysis t…
Media Coverage of Covid-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance as a Non-Commemorative Site of Nazi Germany and Holocaust Remembrance
As part of its efforts to battle the spread of COVID-19, the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or the Shin Bet ) has been authorized under Israeli Defense Emergency Regulations to track citizens' mobile phone geolocations. This case became a fertile ground for multiple stakeholders negotiating the image and role of digital technologies within socio-political exigencies. One important arena in which these discussions took place was Israeli news outlets…
Online construction of romantic relationships on social media
This study draws on Knapp's offline relationship development model to examine how people construct romantic relationships on social media, with particular attention to the role of affordances in this process. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 30 relational partners, we show that Knapp's five traditional stages of relationship construction merge online into three because of social media affordances, including searchability, visibi…
Parental surveillance and parenting styles: Toward a model of familial surveillance climates
This study examines parental surveillance of preadolescents based on location-tracking applications installed on their smartphones. Applying reflexive thematic analysis to 24 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with mothers of middle-school children, the study asks how mothers with different parenting styles describe their surveillance ideologies and practices, and what are the sociocultural imageries that motivate their use of location-tracking…
Covid-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control
In March 2020, Israel passed emergency regulations authorizing its internal security agency to track citizens' mobile phone geolocations in order to tackle the spread of COVID-19. This unprecedented surveillance enterprise attracted extensive media attention and sparked a vigorous public debate regarding technology and democratic values such as privacy, mobility, and control. This article examines press coverage of Israel's surveillance of its ci…
Israel’s Mass Surveillance during Covid-19: A Missed Opportunity
This paper argues that ISA mass surveillance of citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a turning point for Israel, both in its formation as a surveillance society and in revalidating its security-oriented, militaristic tendencies
Identity Collision: Older Gay Men Using Technology
This study examines identity work among older gay men in relation to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It draws on the notion of IT identity—the extent to which individuals experience technology as integral to their sense of selves—to explore how their homosexuality and advanced age shape their relationships with technology. Applying thematic analysis to 17 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with gay male users aged 66–81, we show…
The Politics of Biometric Standards: The Case of Israel Biometric Project
In 2017, after years of public debate, Israel ratified a national biometric project consisting of two initiatives: issuing of biometric ID cards and passports to all Israeli citizens and establishment of a centralized database for storing their bodily information. Design and implementation of a preceding four-year pilot study were accompanied by extensive standardization. Discourse and standard analyses of 33 official state documents – from legal…
The Discursive Construction of Biometric Surveillance in the Israeli Press: Nationality, citizenship, and democracy
In 2017, following vigorous public debate, Israel established a centralized biometric database for storing its citizens’ bodily information. This step, according to privacy advocates, signifies a critical phase in the development of Israel as a surveillance society. This study examines coverage of Israel’s biometric project by three leading Israeli newspapers. Drawing on the intersection of media studies and surveillance studies, it employs disco…
Living the VirtuReal: Negotiating Transgender Identity in Cyberspace
This paper examines the ways transgender users manoeuver between online and offline worlds in order to negotiate their complicated gender identity and to overcome offline impediments. The study is based on virtual ethnography and discourse analysis within two online arenas, a newsgroup and a website, which are central to the Israeli transgender community. The analysis suggests that transgender users employ cyberspace as preliminary, complementary…
Living the VirtuReal: Negotiating Transgender Identity in Cyberspace
This paper examines the ways transgender users manoeuver between online and offline worlds in order to negotiate their complicated gender identity and to overcome offline impediments. The study is based on virtual ethnography and discourse analysis within two online arenas, a newsgroup and a website, which are central to the Israeli transgender community. The analysis suggests that transgender users employ cyberspace as preliminary, complementary…
Israel’s Mass Surveillance during Covid-19: A Missed Opportunity
This paper argues that ISA mass surveillance of citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a turning point for Israel, both in its formation as a surveillance society and in revalidating its security-oriented, militaristic tendencies
Online construction of romantic relationships on social media
This study draws on Knapp's offline relationship development model to examine how people construct romantic relationships on social media, with particular attention to the role of affordances in this process. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 30 relational partners, we show that Knapp's five traditional stages of relationship construction merge online into three because of social media affordances, including searchability, visibi…
The Discursive Construction of Biometric Surveillance in the Israeli Press: Nationality, citizenship, and democracy
In 2017, following vigorous public debate, Israel established a centralized biometric database for storing its citizens’ bodily information. This step, according to privacy advocates, signifies a critical phase in the development of Israel as a surveillance society. This study examines coverage of Israel’s biometric project by three leading Israeli newspapers. Drawing on the intersection of media studies and surveillance studies, it employs disco…
Identity Collision: Older Gay Men Using Technology
This study examines identity work among older gay men in relation to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It draws on the notion of IT identity—the extent to which individuals experience technology as integral to their sense of selves—to explore how their homosexuality and advanced age shape their relationships with technology. Applying thematic analysis to 17 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with gay male users aged 66–81, we show…
Parental surveillance and parenting styles: Toward a model of familial surveillance climates
This study examines parental surveillance of preadolescents based on location-tracking applications installed on their smartphones. Applying reflexive thematic analysis to 24 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with mothers of middle-school children, the study asks how mothers with different parenting styles describe their surveillance ideologies and practices, and what are the sociocultural imageries that motivate their use of location-tracking…
Covid-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control
In March 2020, Israel passed emergency regulations authorizing its internal security agency to track citizens' mobile phone geolocations in order to tackle the spread of COVID-19. This unprecedented surveillance enterprise attracted extensive media attention and sparked a vigorous public debate regarding technology and democratic values such as privacy, mobility, and control. This article examines press coverage of Israel's surveillance of its ci…
The Politics of Biometric Standards: The Case of Israel Biometric Project
In 2017, after years of public debate, Israel ratified a national biometric project consisting of two initiatives: issuing of biometric ID cards and passports to all Israeli citizens and establishment of a centralized database for storing their bodily information. Design and implementation of a preceding four-year pilot study were accompanied by extensive standardization. Discourse and standard analyses of 33 official state documents – from legal…
The Capabilities Divide: ICT Adoption and Use among Bedouin in Israel
The Bedouin community, a subpopulation of the Arab minority in Israel, has been subject to systematic discrimination throughout the state’s history, including in accessibility to digital services. Based on 25 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Bedouin men and women residing in unrecognised villages – townlets that are not legally designated as municipal entities by the state and therefore lack basic infrastructure – this study asks whether…
Hallucinating a political future: Global press coverage of human and post-human abilities in ChatGPT applications
In November 2022, the tech company OpenAI launched a groundbreaking chatbot model, ChatGPT. This unprecedented chatbot, characterized by an ease of use for lay internet users, gained immediate popularity and attracted extensive media attention. This article examines global press coverage of ChatGPT in peak reporting dates over the first full year of its existence. Based on a qualitative holistic narrative analysis, our findings point to two narra…
Media coverage of Covid-19 state surveillance in Israel: The securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis
Israel, traditionally known as a nation-in-arms, has been undergoing processes of securitization and militarization from its inception to the present day. While several countries have employed surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of coronavirus, Israel was the only country in the world to authorize its internal security agency to track citizens’ cellphones to deal with this civil-medical crisis. Employing a reflexive thematic analysis t…
Living the VirtuReal: Negotiating Transgender Identity in Cyberspace
This paper examines the ways transgender users manoeuver between online and offline worlds in order to negotiate their complicated gender identity and to overcome offline impediments. The study is based on virtual ethnography and discourse analysis within two online arenas, a newsgroup and a website, which are central to the Israeli transgender community. The analysis suggests that transgender users employ cyberspace as preliminary, complementary…
The Politics of Biometric Standards: The Case of Israel Biometric Project
In 2017, after years of public debate, Israel ratified a national biometric project consisting of two initiatives: issuing of biometric ID cards and passports to all Israeli citizens and establishment of a centralized database for storing their bodily information. Design and implementation of a preceding four-year pilot study were accompanied by extensive standardization. Discourse and standard analyses of 33 official state documents – from legal…
The Discursive Construction of Biometric Surveillance in the Israeli Press: Nationality, citizenship, and democracy
In 2017, following vigorous public debate, Israel established a centralized biometric database for storing its citizens’ bodily information. This step, according to privacy advocates, signifies a critical phase in the development of Israel as a surveillance society. This study examines coverage of Israel’s biometric project by three leading Israeli newspapers. Drawing on the intersection of media studies and surveillance studies, it employs disco…
Identity Collision: Older Gay Men Using Technology
This study examines identity work among older gay men in relation to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It draws on the notion of IT identity—the extent to which individuals experience technology as integral to their sense of selves—to explore how their homosexuality and advanced age shape their relationships with technology. Applying thematic analysis to 17 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with gay male users aged 66–81, we show…
Parental surveillance and parenting styles: Toward a model of familial surveillance climates
This study examines parental surveillance of preadolescents based on location-tracking applications installed on their smartphones. Applying reflexive thematic analysis to 24 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with mothers of middle-school children, the study asks how mothers with different parenting styles describe their surveillance ideologies and practices, and what are the sociocultural imageries that motivate their use of location-tracking…
Covid-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control
In March 2020, Israel passed emergency regulations authorizing its internal security agency to track citizens' mobile phone geolocations in order to tackle the spread of COVID-19. This unprecedented surveillance enterprise attracted extensive media attention and sparked a vigorous public debate regarding technology and democratic values such as privacy, mobility, and control. This article examines press coverage of Israel's surveillance of its ci…
Israel’s Mass Surveillance during Covid-19: A Missed Opportunity
This paper argues that ISA mass surveillance of citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a turning point for Israel, both in its formation as a surveillance society and in revalidating its security-oriented, militaristic tendencies
Offline and online discrimination and mental distress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals: The moderating effect of LGBTQ facebook use
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals experience multiple forms of discrimination both offline and online. Most studies have thus far focused on the association between a few forms of offline discrimination and mental distress in this population. Using data collected from 1,735 Israeli LGB individuals, this study examined the associations between 18 forms of discrimination and mental distress across three distinct spaces – offline, on Face…
Media coverage of Covid-19 state surveillance in Israel: The securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis
Israel, traditionally known as a nation-in-arms, has been undergoing processes of securitization and militarization from its inception to the present day. While several countries have employed surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of coronavirus, Israel was the only country in the world to authorize its internal security agency to track citizens’ cellphones to deal with this civil-medical crisis. Employing a reflexive thematic analysis t…
Media Coverage of Covid-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance as a Non-Commemorative Site of Nazi Germany and Holocaust Remembrance
As part of its efforts to battle the spread of COVID-19, the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or the Shin Bet ) has been authorized under Israeli Defense Emergency Regulations to track citizens' mobile phone geolocations. This case became a fertile ground for multiple stakeholders negotiating the image and role of digital technologies within socio-political exigencies. One important arena in which these discussions took place was Israeli news outlets…
Online construction of romantic relationships on social media
This study draws on Knapp's offline relationship development model to examine how people construct romantic relationships on social media, with particular attention to the role of affordances in this process. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 30 relational partners, we show that Knapp's five traditional stages of relationship construction merge online into three because of social media affordances, including searchability, visibi…
Facebook use and body dissatisfaction moderate the association between discrimination and suicidality among LGBQ individuals
There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women
In this study we focus on internet nonuse among Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish women, members of a community that either refrains from using the internet or deploys content-filtering when it does access it in some situations. We conducted in-depth interviews to empirically answer two questions: First, how do ultra-Orthodox women perceive their internet nonuse? Second, what direct and indirect solutions do they create to realize their desired capab…
The interplay of internalized homophobia, compulsive use of dating apps, and mental distress among sexual minority individuals: Two moderated mediation models
The Capabilities Divide: ICT Adoption and Use among Bedouin in Israel
The Bedouin community, a subpopulation of the Arab minority in Israel, has been subject to systematic discrimination throughout the state’s history, including in accessibility to digital services. Based on 25 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Bedouin men and women residing in unrecognised villages – townlets that are not legally designated as municipal entities by the state and therefore lack basic infrastructure – this study asks whether…
Hallucinating a political future: Global press coverage of human and post-human abilities in ChatGPT applications
In November 2022, the tech company OpenAI launched a groundbreaking chatbot model, ChatGPT. This unprecedented chatbot, characterized by an ease of use for lay internet users, gained immediate popularity and attracted extensive media attention. This article examines global press coverage of ChatGPT in peak reporting dates over the first full year of its existence. Based on a qualitative holistic narrative analysis, our findings point to two narra…
The association between parenting styles and location tracking among adolescents: A mediation of relational processes
Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer security (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Internet privacy (5 works)