Chaim Noy
professor of media and communication
Chain Noy (Hebrew: חיים נוי; born: 1 July 1968) is an Israeli media and communication professor and the Chair of the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is the immediate past Chair of the Israeli Communication Association (ISCA), and the Vice President – International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA). Noy previously taught at the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.
Noy's research employs qualitative, discursive and ethnographic approaches to mediated and face-to-face communication events and environments. His foci are on affordances of communication and in older and newer media, which he studies in contexts of contemporary travel, tourism, museums, and political activism.
Noy has written three books, published over 80 academic publications, as well as contributed numerous conference papers. For his book, Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2015), Noy received the Best Book Award by the Israeli Communication Association.
Early life and education
Chaim Noy was born in Jerusalem, to his parents Prof. Dov Noy, and Dr. Tamar Noy.
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