The Center for Jewish and Democratic Education
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Dr. Oren Golan
E-mail: ongolan@gmail.com
Personal Site: http://cyber-youth.blogspot.co.il
Golan is a faculty member at both the Department of Leadership and Educational Policy and the Department of Learning, Teaching and Instruction at the University of Haifa. His work focuses on digital religion and online self-educating communities, with special attention to the new media activity of Jewish communities in the US and Israel.
In his research, Golan explores cases such as Chabad’s digital outreach, the Zionist Religious approach to new media, academic knowledge integration of Haredi students, online dating, Jewish apps in the US and Haredi web journalism. For his work on digital religion, he has been awarded several endowments. This includes, a Marie Curie grant (2013), an ISF grant (2017), and has been a visiting fellow in both the Center for Media and Religion at NYU and the Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. Golan is also a PI at the Israeli LINKS initiative and leads a NetLab on Communities, New Media and Education.
Selected Publications on New Media and Judaism
Golan, O. and Mishol-Shauli, N. (2018). Fundamentalist web journalism: Walking a fine line between religious ultra-Orthodoxy and the new media ethos. The European Journal of Communication 33(3): 304–320.
Mishol Shauli, N., Shaham, M. and Golan, O. (forthcoming). Integrating ICTs in Religious Communities: Media Domestication among Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel. In Hoadley, C., Kali, Y., Baram-Tsabari, A. and Schejter, A. (eds.) Learning In a NetworKed Society (LINKS). Berlin: Springer, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) series (34 pages).
Golan, O. and Stadler, N. (2016). Building the Sacred Community Online: The Dual Use of the Internet by Chabad. Media, Culture and Society 38:71–88.
Golan, O. and Campbell, H. (2015). Strategic Management of Religious Websites: The Case of Israel’s Orthodox Communities. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 20 (4): 467–486.
Golan, O. (2015). Legitimation of New Media and Community Building among Jewish Denominations in the US. In H. Campbell (ed.), Digital Judaism. London: Routledge.
Golan, O. (2013). Charting Frontiers of Online Religious Communities: The Case of Chabad Jews. In H. Campbell (ed.), Digital Religion. London: Routledge.
Campbell, H. and Golan, O. (2011). Creating Digital Enclaves: Negotiation of the Internet Amongst Bounded Religious Communities. Media, Culture and Society 33 (5): 709–724.
Golan, O. (2011). Re-Constructing Religious Boundaries Online: The Emergence of the Denominational Jewish Internet. La Temps Des Medias 17 (French).