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Nakhi Mishol-Shauli

I am a PhD student in the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa. My research explores communication as informal education, focusing on the inter-relations between new media, religion and culture as experienced by members of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox society.

My Master thesis, under the supervision of Dr. Oren Golan, focused on the emerging profession of online ultra-Orthodox journalists and their involvement in the production and circulation of the communities' changing fields of knowledge. My PhD, also under the supervision of Dr. Golan, focuses on the day-to-day expressions of Jewish Ultra-Orthodox identity in various social-media platforms and the meanings participants attach to these expressions.

Publications:

- Mishol-Shauli, N.& Golan, O. (2019). Mediatizing the Holy Community: Ultra-Orthodoxy Negotiation and Presentation on Public Social Media. Religions 10(7), 438.
- Mishol-Shauli, N., Shacham, M. & Golan, O. (2019). ICTs in Religious Communities: Communal and Domestic Integration of New Media Among Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel. In Y.Kali, A. Baram-Tsabary, A., Schejter (Eds.), Learning in a networked society: Spontaneous and designed technology enhanced learning communities (pp. 221-241). Springer.
- Golan, O. & Mishol-Shauli, N. (2018): Fundamentalist Web Journalism: Walking a Fine Line between Religious Ultra Orthodoxy and the New Media Ethos. European Journal of Communication 33(3) pp. 304-320.

Awards:

- The 2018-2019 President of the State of Israel’s Scholarship for Research Excellence and Innovation.
- The 2019-2020 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarship Grant.
- The Yaacov Don Award for Research Excellence, The Learning in a Networked Society Israeli Center Of Research Excellence.