How the media promotes security and affects stigma: The cases of ultra-Orthodox “Haredi” Jews and Palestinian-Israelis during the Covid-19 pandemic

B Shomron - Western Journal of Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Media can play a crucial role in enabling vital capabilities during a health emergency such
as the Covid-19 pandemic. While capabilities are essential to everyone, they are especially …

Diversity in broadcasting as an enabler of capabilities: The case of Palestinian-Israeli women on public and commercial radio and television

B Shomron, A Schejter - Feminist Media Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The study examines how media-portrayals of Palestinian–Israeli women, can help
community members realize their capabilities. We present a comparison of the frequency …

The communication rights of Palestinian Israelis understood through the capabilities approach

B Shomron, AM Schejter - International Journal of Communication, 2020 - ijoc.org
The consistent underrepresentation and misrepresentation of Palestinian Israelis in Israeli
media have been assumed to hinder Palestinian Israelis' ability to realize their …

Broadcast media and their social network sites: The case of Palestinian–Israeli representations and capabilities

B Shomron, AM Schejter - Television & New Media, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how media representations of Palestinian–Israelis differ between
broadcast media outlets and their social networking sites, using the “capabilities approach” …

Mass media: the case of Israeli broadcast media and Arab-Israelis

AM Schejter, B Shomron, M Abu Jafar… - Digital capabilities: ICT …, 2023 - Springer
Mass media serve as a vital communication resource as they can enable the realization of
seven unique capabilities:“to be informed,”“to be secure,”“identity and belonging,”“voicing,”“ …

Reconstructing Druze population history

S Marshall, R Das, M Pirooznia, E Elhaik - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The Druze are an aggregate of communities in the Levant and Near East living almost
exclusively in the mountains of Syria, Lebanon and Israel whose~ 1000 year old religion …

Violence and crime as inhibitors of capabilities: the case of Palestinian-Israelis and Israeli mass media

B Shomron, A Schejter - The Communication Review, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates how the media-portrayal of Palestinian-Israelis in the context of
violence and crime, hinders Palestinian-Israelis' abilities to realize their capabilities …

Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs

B Shomron - Mass Communication and Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the media representations of the four Palestinian-Israeli subgroups
(Muslim Arabs, Bedouins, Druze, and Christian Arabs) in the Israeli broadcast media. This …

Genotyping of geographically diverse Druze trios reveals substructure and a recent bottleneck

J Zidan, D Ben-Avraham, S Carmi, T Maray… - European Journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
Druze individuals rarely marry outside their faith (often practicing consanguinity) and are
thus believed to form a genetic isolate. To comprehensively characterize the genetic …

The participation of Palestinian-Israeli politicians in public and commercial television and radio in Israel as capability

B Shomron, A Schejter - International Communication …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how media representations of Palestinian-Israeli politicians, can help
community members realize their capabilities. The study's database is comprised of 1,207 …