AMIT M. SCHEJTER January, 2015 • Education Ll.B. 1982-1986 Hebrew University Law M.S. 1989-1991 Boston University Communications Adviser: Prof. Julie Dobrow Title of Master’s Thesis: The Effect of Mass Media Public Opinion Polls on the Behavior of Voters, Political Campaigns and the Mass Media Ph.D. 1991-1995 Rutgers University Communications Adviser: Prof. Jorge Reina Schement Title of Doctoral dissertation: Media Policy as Social Regulatory Policy: The Role of Broadcasting in Shaping National Culture in Israel • Employment History 2014- Associate Professor and Communication Ben-Gurion present Department Head Studies University of the (tenured) Negev 2014- Visiting Professor and Telecommunications Penn State University present co-director, Institute for Information Policy 2012-2014 Associate Professor Communication Ben-Gurion (tenured) Studies University of the Negev 2010-2011 Visiting Professor Communication Ben-Gurion Studies University of the Negev 2009-2014 Associate Professor Telecommunications Penn State University (tenured) and co- director, Institute for Information Policy 2004-2009 Assistant Professor Telecommunications Penn State University (tenure track) 2003-2004 Attorney -- Cohen Lahat & Co. 2000-2003 Vice President for -- Cellcom Israel Regulatory Affairs 1997-2000 Lecturer (tenure track) Communications Tel Aviv University 1993-1997 Director of Legal Affairs -- Israel Broadcasting and International Authority Relations Amit Schejter 1992-93 Senior Advisor to the -- Ministry of Education Minister and Culture 1989 Minister’s Bureau Chief -- Ministry of Education of Staff and Senior and Culture Policy Advisor • Professional Activities (a) Positions in academic administration 2014 - Present Head, Department of Communication Ben-Gurion University of Studies the Negev 2012 - 2014 Faculty advisor for undergraduate Ben-Gurion University of communication studies minor the Negev 2009 – present Co-director, Institute for Information Penn State University Policy 2005 – 2009 Faculty adviser for the student chapter Penn State University of the National Association of Minorities in Communications (b) Professional functions outside university Conferences/workshops organized Date Topic Location September 2014 “Whose Information is it New America Foundation, Anyway?” Washington, DC May 2014 “New Media, News Ben-Gurion University of Reporting and the Middle the Negev East” May 2014 “The Future of Broadband Federal Communications Regulation” Commission, Washington, DC September-October 2013 “Media policy and New America Foundation, advocacy” Washington, DC May 2013 “Theory of Broadband” Columbia University, New York, NY September 2012 “Is it working?”: New America Foundation, Information Policy Washington, DC Evaluation May 2012 “End of the Phone University of Pennsylvania System” Wharton Business School, 2 - - Amit Schejter Philadelphia, PA September 2011 “New ICTs + New Media New America Foundation, = New Democracy?” Washington, DC May 2011 “Digital Diversity” Fordham University, New York, NY September, 2010 “Broadband Act of 2011” New America Foundation, Washington, DC September, 2009 “Beyond Broadband: Data New America Foundation, Based Policy for a New Washington, DC Administration” June, 2008 “Academic Research for Minneapolis, MN Media Reform: A Symposium for Scholars” (c) Significant professional consulting The advisory committee on monetary sanctions set according to article 37A1 of the communications (telecommunications and broadcasting) law, 1982, member (2014- 2017) The committee for regulation of commercial audiovisual services (appointed by minister of communications), chairman (2014) The committee for the restructuring of regulation of the telecommunications sector (appointed by minister of communications), industry representative (2002) The committee for the restructuring of regulation of commercial broadcasting (appointed by minister of communications), member (2001) The committee for the restructuring of public broadcasting (appointed by minister of education and culture and minister of justice), member (1993) The committee for studying the issue of advertising on cable television (appointed by minister of communications), chairman (1993) (d) Editor or member of editorial board of scientific or professional journal 2008 – Member, Journal of Communication Inquiry present Editorial Board 2008 – Member, Global Media Journal (US edition) present Editorial Board 2009 – Member, “Media Frames” The Journal of the Israel 2012 Editorial Board Communication Association 2009 Guest editor Journal of Communication Inquiry, Volume 33 (4): Media Reform and Public Policy (with Laura Stein). 3 - - Amit Schejter 2010 – Founding editor Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org) present 2012 Guest editor Media Frames: Journal of the Israel Communications Association, Issue 8: Regulation. 2013 – Member, Communications and Strategies present Editorial Secretariat (e) Ad-hoc referee and reviewer Peer-reviewed Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journal of journals Children and Media, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Media Frames (Hebrew), Megamot (Hebrew), Regulation & Governance, The Communication Review, Social Issues in Israel (Hebrew), Global Media Journal (American and Canadian editions), International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, International Journal of Communication Conferences Member, Program Committee, TPRC 2010-2014 Member, Program Committee, Association for Israel Studies annual conference, 2012 International Communication Association Media Management Division of the AEJMC Graduate Education Interest Group of AEJMC annual conference Telecommunication Policy Research Conference student competition “Metaksherim” a graduate student conference Mid-winter conference of the Graduate Education Interest Group of AEJMC Annual conference of the Israel Communication Association Grants British Academy, Israel Science Foundation, Arthur W. Page Center of Integrity in Public Communication annual Page Legacy Scholars competition, Social Science Research Council (US), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Book proposals Lawrence Erlbaum, Open University Press (Israel), Oxford University Press, Routledge, Sage Educational Chair of two committees appointed by the Israeli Council of programs Higher Education in order to examine new degree granting programs in communication studies Judge in the undergraduate student poster competition, Penn State (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) (f) Membership in professional/scientific societies 1998-present International Communication Association 4 - - Amit Schejter 2012-present International Association of Media and Communication Research 1996-present Israel Communication Association • Educational Activities (a) Courses taught Course Level Instituion Introduction to undergraduate Ben-Gurion University of communication studies the Negev Communication theory graduate Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Media Industry Regulation undergraduate Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Comparative World Media undergraduate seminar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Disconnected graduate seminar Ben-Gurion University of Communities in an Online the Negev Society Communications For All – graduate and Ben-Gurion University of activism seminar undergraduate the Negev Media and Democracy undergraduate Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Telecommunication undergraduate Penn State Regulation Media and Information undergraduate Penn State Industries Comparative Media graduate Penn State Systems World Media Systems undergraduate Penn State Media Activism undergraduate Penn State Introduction to Mass undergraduate Tel Aviv University Communication Broadcasting Law and undergraduate Tel Aviv University Policy in Israel and the World The Public Interest undergraduate seminar Tel Aviv University Standard in Communication Policy Media Institutions undergraduate Tel Aviv University Communication and undergraduate seminar Tel Aviv University Cultural Policy Policy Issues in the undergraduate seminar Tel Aviv University Information Society Public Broadcasting undergraduate seminar Tel Aviv University Regulating undergraduate Tel Aviv University Communication Infrastructure Regulating undergraduate Tel Aviv University 5 - - Amit Schejter Communication Content Communications and graduate (executive Tel Aviv University Social Justice program) Communications and the graduate (executive University of Haifa Law program) Media Law graduate University of Haifa Communication Law graduate (executive Tel Aviv University program) (b) Research students Ph.D. Students Graduation Student’s Name Degree Institution Date 2009 Ming Kuok Lim Ph.D. Penn State 2009 Worapron Tina Ph.D. Penn State (with Colleen Connolly- Worawongs Ahern) 2010 Jonathan Obar Ph.D. Penn State 2013 Nivedita Chaterjee Ph.D. Penn State (with Krishna Jayakar) 2014 Daniela Korbas- Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Magal (with Zvi Reich) 2015 Michael Todd Ph.D. Penn State (with Bob Richards) (expected) 2015 Sangyong Han Ph.D. Penn State (with Richard Taylor) (expected) 2017 Noam Tirosh Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) 2018 Jonathan Mendels Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) 2018 Shula Mola Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) 2018 Ghalia Abu-Kaf Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) 2019 Malka Shacham Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) M.A. Students Graduation Student’s Name Degree Institution Date 2014 Shirley Drucker M.A. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (with Nelly Elias) 6 - - Amit Schejter 2015 Baruch Shomron M.A. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) 2015 Inbar Bar Yehuda M.A. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) 2016 Anas Abuda’abes M.A. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) 2017 Amneh Sharha M.A. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (expected) Dissertation/thesis committee member: Ph.D. Students 2006 Sangho Seo Ph.D. Penn State 2008 Aziz Douai Ph.D. Penn State 2008 Sung Wook Kim Ph.D. Penn State 2009 Juraj Kittler Ph.D. Penn State 2012 Michael Horning Ph.D. Penn State 2013 Nadia-Ivette Ph.D. Penn State Martinez-Carrillo 2013 Brandie Martin Ph.D. Penn State 2015 Katharine Reed Allen Ph.D. Penn State M.A. Students 2008 Patrick Baxter M.A. Penn State 2010 Jon Gobeil M.A. Penn State 2010 India Brown M.A. Penn State Supervisor of independent studies: Kevin Wentzel (2006, Spring); Ryan Coyle (2006, Fall); Alyse Fiori (2006-7, Honors Thesis); Ming Kuok Lim (2006, Summer); Sung Wook Kim (2007, Spring); Brandon Tarbert (2007, Spring); Worapron Tina Worawongs (2007, Summer), Nivedita Chaterjee (2008, Spring), Jonathan Obar (2008, Spring), Michael Horning (2009, Summer); Sangyong Han (2010, Summer), Alan DeLevie (2011, Spring). • Honors, Citations, Awards 2011-2012 Penn State University Distinguished Honors Faculty 2009-2011 University of Hamburg/University Mundus Scholar of Amsterdam 2009 International Communication Top Three Paper Association, Law and Policy Division 7 - - Amit Schejter 2008 Association for Education in Best Faculty Paper Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC), Radio Television Division Annual Conference 2008 Penn State, College of Faculty Marshal, Fall Communications commencement 2006-7 Penn State, College of Deans’ Excellence Award for Communications Integrated Scholarship 1995 Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Israel) Fellowship (declined). 1989 Boston University (Boston, USA) Outstanding Academic and Leadership Achievement Student Award • Scientific Publications (a) Books 1.Schejter, A. (2009). Muting Israeli Democracy: How Media and Cultural Policy Undermine Free Expression. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press (6 citations) 2.Cohen, A. Lemish, D. & Schejter, A. (2008) The Wonder Phone in the Land of Miracles: Mobile Telephony in Israel. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (21 citations) (b) Edited Books 1.Elias, N., Nimrod, G., Reich, Z. & Schejter, A. (accepted, 2015). Transitions in Media. Mevasseret Zion: Tzivonim Press [in Hebrew] 2.Taylor, R. & Schejter A. (eds.) (2013). Beyond Broadband Access: Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies. New York: Fordham University Press 3.Schejter, A. (ed.) (2009). … and communications for all: A Policy Agenda for a New Administration. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (5 citations) (c) Edited Collections 1.Schejter A. & Han, S. (eds.) (2010). Telecommunications, Broadcasting, and Information: Law, Policy, and Regulation. San Diego, CA: Cognella (a collection of readings designed to accompany an upper-level undergraduate course in telecommunications regulation) 8 - - Amit Schejter (d) Book Chapters 1. Schejter, A PI. & Yemini, M. PI (accepted, 2015). Media concentration in Israel. In: Noam, E. (ed.) Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership around the World. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press 2. Schejter, A. PI & Tirosh, N. PI (accepted, 2015). “…please grant success to the journey on which I have come”: successful and unsuccessful media reform strategies in Israel. In: Obar, J., Freedman, D., Aslama Horowitz, M. (eds.) Strategies for Media Reform. New York: Fordham University Press 3. Schejter, A. PI & Tirosh, N. PI (2014). New Media Policy: The Redistribution of Voice. In: Liu, Y. & Picard, R. (eds.) Policy and Marketing Strategies for Digital Media. (pp. 73-86). London: Routledge 4. Schejter, A. (2013). ‘I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.’ The regulation of media for and by the Palestinian- Israeli minority. In: D. Caspi & N. Elias (eds.) Media and Ethnic Minorities in the Holy Land. (pp. 117-135). London: Vallentine-Mitchell 5. Schejter, A. (2013) “Rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: Does democracy count?” In: R. Taylor & A. Schejter (eds.) Beyond Broadband: Developing data-based information policy strategies. (pp. 113-128) New York: Fordham University Press 6. Schejter, A. PI & Katz-Kimchi, M. PI (2012) “... [and] they formed themselves into a single unit: The Development of the Israel Broadcasting Authority Website” In: N. Brugger & M. Burns (eds.) Public Service Broadcasters on the Web: A Comprehensive History (pp. 105-117) New York: Peter Lang 7. Schejter, A. PI & Han, S. S (2011) Regulating the media: Four perspectives. In: D. Levi-Faur (ed.) Politics of Regulation Handbook. (pp. 243-253) London: Edward Elgar 8. Schejter, A. (2009) International Benchmarks: The Crisis in U.S. Communications Policy Through a Comparative Lens. In: A. Schejter (ed.) “…and communications for all”: A Policy Agenda for a New Administration. (pp. 57-77) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 9. Schejter, A. (2009) Medien in Israel. In C. Matzen, (Ed.) Intenationales Handbuch Medien. (pp. 939-948) Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institut [in German]. 10. Schejter, A. (2008) European Union: Communication Law. Entry in Donsbach, W. (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication (pp. 1609-1615) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 11. Schejter, A. (2007) Online transformation: The Israel Broadcasting Authority on the Internet – What Goes, What Gets By and What Should Give. In T. Schwartz-Altschuller (ed.) Online Journalism in Israel (pp. 51-83) Jerusalem: 9 - - Amit Schejter Israel Democracy Institute and Burda Center for Innovative Communications at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (in Hebrew). Book can be accessed online: http://www.idi.org.il/hebrew/download.asp?id=942 (English language abstracts available as of page 376) 12. Schejter, A. (2006). Media Law and the rights of the Palestinian-Arab minority in Israeli public service broadcasting. In The Obligations of Public Broadcasting toward the Arab Society: On the Reform in the Israel Broadcasting Authority. (pp. 63-90) Nazareth: Ilam Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel (in Hebrew) 13. Schejter, A. (2004). Medien in Israel. In C. Matzen, (Ed.) Intenationales Handbuch fur Medien 2004-2005. (pp. 905-911) Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institut. 14. Schejter, A. (2003). Public broadcasting, the information society and the Internet: a paradigm shift? In M. McCauley, E. Peterson, L. Artz & D. Halleck (Eds.) Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest. (pp. 158-174) Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe (5 citations) 15. Schejter, A. (2002). Medien in Israel. In C. Matzen, (Ed.) Intenationales Handbuch fur Medien 2002-2003. (pp. 817-824) Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institut. 16. Schejter, A. PI & Cohen, A. PI (2002). Israel: Chutzpah and Chatter in the Holyland. In J. Katz & M. Aakhus (Eds.) Perpetual Contact. (pp. 30-42) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (33 citations) 17. Schejter ,A. (2000). Rundfunk in Israel. In C. Matzen, (Ed.) Internationales Handbuch fur Hornfunk und Fernsehen. (pp. 761-766) Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institut. 18. Schejter, A. (1998). The Internet: A Mirage of Public Sphere. In Sivan, Y. From the MTV Generation to the LLL Generation: The Story of a National Educational Infrastructure. (pp. 263-271) [in Hebrew]. Even Yehuda, Israel: Reches Publishing House 19. Schejter, A. (1998). Rundfunk in Israel. In C. Matzen, (Ed.) Internationales Handbuch fur Hornfunk und Fernsehen. (pp. 668-672). Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institut. 20. Schejter, A. (1996). Rundfunk in Israel. In C. Matzen, (Ed.) Internationales Handbuch fur Hornfunk und Fernsehen. (pp. 55-59). Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institut. 21. Lehman-Wilzig, S. PI & Schejter, A. PI (1994). Mass Media in Israel. in Y. Kamalipour, H. Mowlana (Eds.) Mass Media in the Middle East. (pp. 109- 125). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 10 - -