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Oren Golan
Postdoctoral Fellow
515 Clark Street,
Room 206
Phone: (847) 467-3986
Oren-Golan@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: (Winter 2012)
Thursday 3:20-4:20 or
By Appointment
Areas of Interest
Internet and New Media Studies
Sociology of Youth
Social and Ethnographic Aspects of Israeli Society
Biography
Oren Golan received his PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and in 2009/10 was a visiting fellow at NYU's center for religion and Media. Golan's PhD is entitled: "Computing Friendship: the Social Construction of Relationships within CMC among Israeli Adolescents" available on his website Digital Youth.
His research interests include: Internet and new media studies, the sociology of youth, social and ethnographic aspects of Israeli society, informal education, social trust, friendship, entrepreneurship, and of late – online religion in the US and Israel. Golan has taught at the Hebrew University and at the center for informal education and new media unit at Beit Berl collage. He has received numerous grants and awards from the Israel Foundations Trustees (affiliated with the Ford foundation), the Fulbright foundation, the Israeli Internet association, the Shaine center at the Hebrew university and the Yonina Talmon award. Golan is currently a visiting fellow with the Sociology department and the Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University and instructs classes on youth cultures, Israeli society and New Media cultures from a comparative perspective.
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 306: Topics Youth and Society: Focus on Israel Syllabus
Publications
Creating Digital Enclaves: Negotiation of the Internet Amongst Bounded Religious Communities (In Press)
With Heidi Campbell; Media, Culture and Society; Sage Publications, 2011
Impediments and Affordances of Creating Trust over the Internet: The Case of Israeli Youth
Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
Editors D. Latusek and A. Gerbasi; New York: IGI Global, 2010
Trust Over the Net: The Case of Israeli Youth
IJDTIS 1 (2), IGI Publishing 2010
Charting Frontiers of Online Religious Communities: The case of Chabad Jews (In Press)
Heidi Campbell, Editor; Digital Religion, London: Routledge, 2010
Youth in the Internet Age: Trust and Informality
A. Kahane and T. Rappoport, Editors
Between Order and Chaos: Informal Organizations as a platform for Social and Educational Thought
Tel Aviv: Resling.
Symbols and Language of Youth on the Internet: Rhetoric, Idioms and Icons
Israeli Sociology 11 (2) [in Hebrew] English Abstract
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
