Prof. Dafna Lemish

Publications:

Books:

Lemish, D. (forthcoming, 2010) Screening Gender on  Children's Television: The views of producers around the world.
London: Routledge.

Cohen, A.A., Lemish, D., & Schejter, A. (2008). The Wonder Phone in the Land of Miracles: Mobile Telephony in Israel. Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemish, D. (2007) Children and Television: A Global Perspective. Oxford UK: Blackwell Publishing.
    Translation to Russian by Pokelenie Publishing Ltd.
    Translation to Italian by Raffaello Cortina Editore
    Translation to Polish by Jagiellonian University Press
    Translation into Greek Motibo Publishing SA – Topos Books
    Translation into Serbian CLIO Publishing Company

Lemish, D. & Gotz, M. (Eds.) (2007) .Children and Media in Times of War and Conflict . Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.

Gotz, M. Lemish, D. Aidman, A., & Moon, H. (2005). Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter meets Pokemon in Disneyland.New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lemish, D. (2003) Growing up with Television: The Little Screen in the Lives of Children and Youth .Tel Aviv: The Open University of Israel (in Hebrew)

Tufte, B. Lavender, & T. Lemish, D. (Eds.) (2003).Media Education around the Globe: Policies and Practices. Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.

Journal Editing:

Journal of Children and Media Refereed international academic journal. Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group of Routledge (Founding Editor since 2007).

The media gendering of war and conflict. Feminist Media Studies 5(3), November 2005 (Guest Editor of special issue).

Refereed Journal Articles:

Elias, E., Lemish, D., & Khovorostianov, N. (forthcoming 2010). “Britney Spears remained in Russia:” Dynamics of musical preferences in the integration of immigrant adolescents. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Lemish, D., Ribak, R., & Alony, R. (2009). Israeli children go on line: A reason for a moral panic? Megamot (Trends), 46(1-2) (Hebrew)

Elias, N. & Lemish, D. (2009). Spinning the web of identity: Internet's roles in immigrant adolescents' search of identity. New Media & Society, 11(4), 1-19.

Lemish, D. & Reznik, S. (2008). To laugh or not to laugh? Performing girlhood through humor. Girlhood Studies, 1(1), 114-137.

Klin, A. & Lemish, D. (2008). Mental Disorders Stigma in the Media: Review of Studies on Production, Content, and Influences.Journal of Health Communication 13, 434-449.

Lemish, D. & Reznik, S. (2008). To laugh or not to laugh? Performing girlhood through humor. Girlhood Studies, 1(1), 114-137.

Elias, N. & Lemish, D. (2008). Spinning the Web of Identity: Internet's Roles in Immigrant Adolescents' Search of Identity. New Media & Society

Lemish, D., Ribak, R., & Aloni, R. (2008). Israeli children go on line: A reason for a moral panic? Megamot (In Hebrew)

Bloch, L-R. & Lemish, D. (2008). Persuasion Through Insult: The 'F' Word In Israeli Media. Media , Culture , and Society, 30 (2), 239-256.

Elias, N. & Lemish, D. (2008). Media Uses in Immigrant Families: Torn Between "Inward" and "Outward" Paths of Integration. International Communication Gazett,70(1), 21-40

Klin, A. and Lemish, D. (2007). Media: A double-edge sword for advancing mental health. Kidum Ha'briut (Hebrew)

Bloch, L-R., & Lemish, D. (2005) I know I’m a freierit, but: The gendered nature of a key cultural frame. Journal of Communication, 55(1), 38-55.

Lemish, D. , & Cohen, A. (2005) On the gendered nature of mobile phone culture in Israel. Sex Roles, 52(7/8), 511-525.

Lemish, D. (2004). My kind of campfire: The Eurovision Song Contest and Israeli homosexuals. Popular Communication, 2(1), 41-63.

Lemish, D., & Lahav, I. (2004). Much ado about nothing? Masculinities in Israeli advertising. Feminist Media Studies, 4(2), 149-165.

Cohen, A.A., & Lemish, D. (2003). Real time versus survey measures in research on mobile phone use. New Media and Society, 5(2), 167-183.

Lahav, I. , & Lemish, D. (2003). Romantic, sensitive and with a sense of humor: Representations of masculinity in Israeli ddvertising. Megamot, 42(4), 671-691 (in Hebrew).

Tidhar, C., & Lemish, D. (2003). The making of television: Young viewers’ developing perceptions. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 47(3), 375- 393.

Lemish, D. (2003). Spice world: Constructing femininity the popular way. Popular Music and Society, 26 (1), 17-29.

Bloch, L.R., & Lemish, D. (2003). The Megaphone Effect: International culture via the US of A. Communication Yearbook, 27, 159-190. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Lemish, D., & Drob, G. (2002). “All the time his wife:” Portrayals of First Ladies in the Israeli press. Parliamentary Affairs, 55(1), 129-142. Reprinted in Ross, K. (Ed.). (2002), Women, Politics, and Change (pp.129-142). Oxford: Oxford University Press,

Lemish, D. (2002). Gender at the forefront: Feminist perspectives on action theoretical approaches in communication research. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 27 (1), 63-78.

Lemish, D. (2002). Normalizing inequality: Portrayals of women in Israeli media The Journal of Israeli History, 21 (1-2), 110-125. Reprinted in: Naveh, H. (Ed.). (2003). Israeli Family and Community: Women’s Time pp. 110-125. London: Vallentine Mitchelle.

Lemish, D., & Tidhar, C. (2001). How global does it get? The Teletubbies in Israel . Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 45(4), 558-574.

Lemish, D. (2000). The whore and the Other: Israeli images of female immigrants from the Former USSR. Gender and Society, 14(2), 333-349.

Lemish, D., & Barzel, I. (2000). ‘Four Mothers’: The womb in the public sphere. European Journal of Communication, 15 (2), 147-169. Reprinted in: McQuail, D., Golding, P., & de Bens, E. (Eds.), (2005). Communication theory & research: An EJC anthology (pp. 125-138). London: Sage.

Lemish, D., & Tidhar, C. (1999). Still marginal: Women in Israel’s 1996 television election campaign. Sex Roles, 41, 389-412.

Bloch, L.R., & Lemish, D. (1999). Disposable love: The rise and fall of a virtual pet. New Media and Society , 1(3), 283-303.

Lemish, D., & Tidhar, C. (1999). Where have all the young girls gone?
Women and Language, XXII (2), 27-32.

Lemish, D. (1998). “Girls can be wrestlers too”: Gender differences in the consumption of a television wrestling series. Sex Roles, 38(9/10), 833-849.

Lemish, D., Drotner, K., Liebes, T., Maigret, E., & Stald, G. (1998). Global culture in practice: A look at children and adolescents in Denmark, France and Israel.European Journal of Communication, 13 , 539-556.

Lemish, D. (1998). What is news? A cross cultural examination of kindergartners’ understanding of news. Communications: European Journal of Communication Research, 23 , 491-504. Reprinted in: Renckstorf, K., McQuail, D., & Jankowski, N. (Eds.), Television news research: Recent European approaches and findings. Communications Monograph 2. Berlin: Quintessence Publishing.

Lemish, D. (1997). Kindergartners' understandings of television: A cross cultural comparison. Communication Studies, 48(2), 109-126.

Lemish, D. (1997). The school as a wrestling arena: The modeling of a television series. Communication: European Journal of Communication Research, 22(4), 395-418.

Lemish, D., & Tidhar, C. (1991). The silenced majority: Women in Israel's 1988 television election campaign. Women and Language, XIV, 13-21.

Lemish, D., & Rice M. (1986). Television as a talking picture book: A prop for language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 13, 251-274.

Lemish, D. (1985). Soap opera viewing in college: A naturalistic inquiry Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media , 29, 275-293.

Lemish, D. (1982). The rules of viewing television in public places. Journal of Broadcasting , 26, 757-781.

Lemish, P., & Lemish, D. (1982). A guide to the literature of qualitative research. Journal of Broadcasting , 26, 839-846.

Becker, L. Underwood, P. ,& Lemish, D. (1981). Western wire aervices and news of the US in the Yugoslav press. Gazzette, 28, 1981, 105-115.

Wartella, E., Alexander, A., & Lemish, D. (1979). The mass media environment of children. American Behavioral Scientist, 23, 33-52.

Book Chapters:

Reznik, S. & Lemish, D. (forthcoming). Falling in love with "High School Musical": Girls' talk about romantic perceptions. In Kearney, M.C. (Ed.), Mediated Girlhoods. Peter Lang.

Lemish, D. (forthcoming). Family representations in the media: Far and near relationships. In Muhlbauer, V, & Kulik, L. (Eds.), Working families in Israel. Tel Aviv: College of Management Publishing. (Hebrew).

Lemish, D. & Elias, N. (forthcoming). “One meets through clothing:” The role of fashion in the identity formation of Former Soviet Union migrant Youth in Israel. In D. Buckingham and V. Tingstad (Eds.), Childhood and consumer culture. London: Palgrave.

Elias, N. & Lemish, D. (forthcoming). Together and separately: Media in the lives of immigrant families from FSU. In Y. Lerner and R. Faldchi (Eds.), Russians in Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (In Hebrew).

Elias, N. & Lemish, D. (2008). When all else fail: The Internet and adolescent-immigrants. In K. Drotner (Ed.), Informal learning and digital media: Constructions, contexts and consequences. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Elias, N. & Lemish, D. (2008). The internet life of Former Soviet Union adolescents in Israel. In I. Rydin & U. Sjoberg (Eds.) Mediated crossroads: Identity, youth culture and ethnicity - Theoretical and methodological challenges. Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom, Goteborg University

Lemish, D. (2008). The mediated playground: Media in early childhood. In Drotner, K. and Livingstone, S. (Eds.), International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture . London: Sage.

Lemish, D. (2007). How do Researchers Study Young People and the media? In S.R. Mazzarella (Ed.), Kid stuff: 20 questions about youth and the media (pp. 73-86). Peter and Lang Publishers.

Lemish, D. (2007). The Politics of exclusion: Representations of Women and Violence Against Them. In D. Caspi (Ed.), Communication and politics in Israel (pp. 185-207). Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (In Hebrew).

Lemish, D. (2007). "This is our war:" Israeli children domestication the war in Iraq. In D. Lemish & M. Gotz (Eds.), Children and media tat times of conflict and war. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemish, D. (2007). Israeli children's television going to war with Iraq. In D. Lemish & M. Gotz (Eds.), Children and media tat times of conflict and war. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemish, D. & Gotz, M. (2007). Introduction: Studying children and media at times of conflict and war. In D. Lemish and M. Gotz (Eds.), Children and media tat times of conflict and war. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemish, D. & Gotz, M. (2007).Towards a better use of media for children at times of conflict and war: Concluding notes. In D. Lemish and M. Gotz (Eds.), Children and media tat times of conflict and war. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemish, D. (2007). Gay Brotherhood: Israeli Gay Men and the Eurovision Song Contest. In I. Raykoff and R. Tobin (Eds.), A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Elias, N. & Lemish, D. (2007). Re-inventing identities: The Internet in the lives of immigrant youth. In Caspi, D. & Azran, T. (Eds.). New media and innovative technologies (pp. 188-210). Burda Research Center and Ben Gurion University.

Lemish, D. (2006). Media Representations. n U. Ram and N. Berkowitz (Eds.), In/Equality . (pp. 100-107). Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press. (In Hebrew).

Cohen, A.A. , & Lemish, D. (2005). When the bombs go off the mobiles ring: The aftermath of terrorist attacks. In K. Nyiri (Ed.), A Sense of place: The global and the local in mobile ommunication (pp. 117-128). Budapest: Verlag.

Lemish, D., & Cohen, A.A. (2005). “Tell me about your mobile and I’ll tell you who you are: Israelis talk about themselves. In R. Ling (Eed.), Mobile communications: Re-negotiation of the public sphere (pp. 187-202). London: Springer-Verlag ltd.

Lemish, D. (2005). Kulturelle Spuren in de Fantasien der Kinder – Kinder zwischen lokaler und globaler Kultur (Cultural traces in the fantasies of children – children between local and global culture). In M. Gotz (Ed.), Mit Pokemon in Harry Potters Welf: Medien in den Fantasien von Kindern ( With Pokemon in Harry Potter ’s world: Media and the fantasies of children (pp. 237-247). Munich: Kopaed (in German).

Lemish, D. (2005). Die Fantasiewelten in einer von Kopnflikten gepragten Gesellschaft: Die israelischen Fallbeispiele (The fantasy worlds of a deeply conflicted society: Israeli case studies. In Ibid, (pp. 290-299) (in German).

Lemish, D. (2005). Von Kosmia und Ra’utshka im Harry Potter Land wie ein israelishcer Junge sich Harry Potter aneignet (From Kosmia and Ra’utshka in Harry Potter land: How an Israeli boy appropriates Harry Potter). In Ibid (pp. 300- 310) (in German).

Lemish, D. and Gotz, M. (2005). Mit Laserschwert und Sissi-Kleid – Medienspuren in den Fantasien der Kinder und ihre Bedeutung (With laser sword and Sissi dress: Media traces in the fantasies of children and their meanings). In Ibid (pp. 141-164) (in German).

Gotz, M. and Lemish, D. (2005). Die Fantasien von Maddchen und Jungen: Ein quantitativer Uberblick (The fantasies of girls and boys: A quantitative overview). In Ibid (pp. 179-182) (in German).

Gotz, M. and Lemish, D. (2005). “Ich bin eine Elfe” – Fantasien und ihre Medienspuren bei Madchen ( “I am an elf”: Fantasies and their media traces). In Ibid (pp. 183-208) (in German).

Gotz, M. and Lemish, D. (2005). “Ich war ein Raptor, ein riesiger Dinosaurier…” Die Fantasien von Jungen und ihre Medienspuren ( “I was a raptor, a giant dinosaur….”: Boys and their media traces). In Ibid (pp. 209-235) (in German).

Lemish, D., & Bloch, L.R. (2004). Pokemon in Israel. In J. Tobin (Ed.), Pikachu's global adventure: Making sense of the rise and fall of Pokemon (pp. 165-186). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Lemish, D. (2004). Exclusion or marginality? Portrayals of women in the Israeli media. In C. Byerly & K. Ross (Eds.), Women and Media (pp. 39-59). NY Blackwell

Lemish, D. (2004). “Fly Blue and White”: Patriotism in Israeli advertisingIn A. Ben-Amos & D. Bar Tal (Eds.), Patriotism in Israel (pp. 317-337). Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Ha’meuchad and Dyunon (in Hebrew).

Lemish, D. (2003). Kindergartners’ understandings of television: The early development of television literacy In B. Tufte, T. Lavender, & D. Lemish (Eds.), Media education: Policy and practice (pp. 67-90). Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemish, D. (2003).Glocalizing Media Education. In B. Tufte, T. Lavender & D.

Lemish (Eds.), Media Education: Policy and Practice (pp. 173-180). Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemish, D. (2002). Between here and there: Israeli children living cultural globalization. In C. von Feilitzen & U. Carlsson (Eds.), Children, young people and media globalization (pp. 125-134). The UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children Youth and Media.

Lemish, D., Liebes, T., & Seidmann, V. (2001). Gendered media meaning and use. In S. Livingstone & M. Bovill (Eds.), Children and their changing media environment (pp. 263-282). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Livingstone, S., & Lemish, D. (2001). Doing comparative research with children and young people. In S. Livingstone & M. Bovill (Eds.), Children and their changing media environment (pp. 31-50). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lemish, D. (1999). " America, the beautiful:" Israeli children's perceptions of the US through a wrestling television series. In Y.R. Kamalipour (Ed.), Images of the U.S. around the world: A multicultural perspective (pp. 295-308). NY: SUNY Press.

Lemish, D. (1998). Fighting against television violence: An Israeli case study. In U. Carlsson, & C.von Feilitzen, (Eds.), Yearbook 1997 of the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen (125-138). Sweden: Goteborg University Press.

Lemish, D. (1998). Spice Girls’ talk: A case study in the development of gendered identity. In S.A. Inness (Ed.),Millennium girls: Today’s girls around the world (pp. 145-167). New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

Lemish, D., & Lemish, P. (1997). A much debated consensus: Media literacy in Israel. In R. Kubey, & B. Ruben (Eds.), Media Literacy in the Information Age (pp. 213-228). NY: Transaction Publishers.

Lemish, D. (1997). The Ripple Effect: Pornographic images of women in Israeli advertising. In S. French (Ed.), Interpersonal Violence, Health and Gender Politics (pp. 285-295). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.

Lemish, D. (1997). Equal communication rights: A feminist perspective on Israeli media. In D. Caspi (Ed.), Media and Democracy in Israel (pp. 119-139). Jerusalem: Van-Leer and Kibbutz Meuchad. (in Hebrew).

Lemish, D. (1996). Television wrestling in the lives of Israeli children: Uses, perceptions, and behavioral effects. In B. Bachmair, & G. Kress (Eds.) Hollen- Inzyenierung Wrestling: Bedeutungs - und Rezeptionsanalyse eines Kontroversen Genres . (Hell-Staged Wrestling: Meaning and reception analysis of controversial genres). Munchen: Kopad, pp. 145-159 (in German).

Tidhar, C., & Lemish, D. (1993). Women in the Intifada: A television news perspective. In A. Cohen & G. Wolfsfeld (Eds.), Framing the Intifada: People and media (pp. 142-159). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Tidhar, C., & Lemish, D. (1993). Israeli broadcasting media facing the Scud missile attacks. In T. McCain, & L. Shyles (Eds.), The 1000 Hour War: Communication in the Gulf War (pp. 111-126). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Lemish, D. (1987). Viewers in dapers: The early development of television viewing. In T. Lindlof (Ed.), Natural audiences: Qualitative research of media uses and effects (pp. 33-57). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Book Reviews:

Lemish, D. (2009). Readers' voices: The act of reading in the multi-media environment by Hanna Adoni and Hillel Nossek Megamot (in Hebrew)

Lemish D. (December 2007). Meeting the enemy in the living room edited by Tamar Liebes and Paul Frosh. Social Security 75, 142-145. (in Hebrew).

Lemish, D. (2007). Women in Israeli Academics by Nina Toren. Israeli Sociology 8(2), 177-180. (In Hebrew)

Lemish, D. (2006). Children’s learning from educational television: Sesame Street and beyond by Shalom M. Fish. Journal of Human Development .

Lemish, D. (2006). Children’s learning from educational television: Sesame Street and beyond by Shalom M. Fish. Journal of Human Development .

Lemish, D. (2004). American dreams, Hebrew subtitles: Globalization from the receiving end by Tamar Liebes. Political Communication, 21(4), 514-515.

Lemish, D. (2003). Small screens: Television for children, edited by David Buckingham , and Young people and new media by Sonia Livingstone. Feminist Media Studies ,3(2),235-238.

Lemish, D. (2000). Growing up girls: Popular culture and the construction of identity by Sharon Mazzarella and Norma Pecora. Journal of Communication, 50(3), 183-185.

Encyclopedia Entrees:

International Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education (edited by Rebecca S. New) (forthcoming) Greenwood, Westport. CT. Entree on Journal of Children and Media

International Encyclopedia of Communication (edited by Wolfgang Donsbach) (2008) Blackwell Publishing.2 Entrees: Fantasy-reality distinction (Volume IV, pp. 1738-1741) ; Gender, representation in media (Volume V, pp. 1945-1951).

Girls Culture: An Encyclopedia (edited by Claudia Mitchell & Jacqueline Reid-Walsh) (2008) McGill University. Entree: The Spice Girls (Volume 2, pp. 550-552).

Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, (edited by Jeffrey J. Arnett) (2007), London: Sage. 6 entrees: gender roles in music (pp. 365-367); gender media use (pp. 361-362); preschoolers, media impact on developmental needs of (pp. 668-671); infants and toddlers: Developmental needs and media interactions (pp. 407-410); news and children’s responses (pp. 624-625); ; fantasy and media effects (pp. 326-328).

Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (2007), Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing. Entree: Marginality and Exclusion: Portrayals of Women in the Israeli Media

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Queer Culture (2006), edited by David Gerstner. New York: Routledge.
2 entrees: The Eurovision and homosexuality; (pp. 205-206); Dana International (p. 303)