Alina Bernstein
Media researcher, Tel Aviv University
Kahanshtam 4 (flat 9)
Tel Aviv, 62193
Israel
Tel/Fax: + 972 3 5449202
E-mail: alinaber@netvision.net.il
Education
1990-1997 PhD Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester.
Thesis: British and Israeli Coverage of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics: A Comparative Analysis
1985-1990 MA Sociology and Anthropology Dept., Tel Aviv University.
Dissertation: "We're on the Map" - The Television Coverage of Basketball in Israel.
1982-1985 BA Film And Television Dept., Tel Aviv University (degree awarded with distinction).
Employment
1985 - present Lecturer and Students Advisor at Film and Television Dept., Tel Aviv University
2001 - present Lecturer at the School of Media Studies, the College of Managament, Tel Aviv
1995 - 2001 Lecturer at The Academic Shapir College
Publications Books Co-edited with Neil Blain 'Sport in the Media World' (forthcoming). UK: Frank Cass (Follow up to a special 'media and sport' issue of the journal Culture, Sport, Society) Journal Articles
"Is it time for a victory lap? - Changes in the Media Coverage of Women in Sport" (forthcoming, September 2002) International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Sage Publications, Inc. With Neil Blain,"Sport and the Media: The Emergence of a Major Research Field" (forthcoming), introductory article to special Media and Sport issue, Culture, Sport, Society. Frank Cass "Meeting the Industry - an interview with Alex Gilady" (forthcoming), special Media and Sport issue, Culture, Sport, Society. Frank Cass '"Things You Can See From There You Can't See From Here": Globalization, Media and the Olympics' in Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Volume 24, No. 4, November 2000. Sage Publications, Inc.
Professional Journals
"Any Given Sunday" feminist film review of the 1999 Oliver Stone movie (forthcoming) Feminist Media Studies. Sage Publications, Inc. "Television and Children in Israel - Current Research" (forthcoming March, 2003) Medienimpulse (Austria) "Television and Children in Israel - Current Research" (forthcoming) Clearinghouse newsletter (Sweden) "Er det størrelsen det kommer an p?" (Is It Time for a Victory Lap), Ungdom & Idrt (Youth & Sport), no. 28/2001 (in Danish)
Book Chapters
'Representation, Identity and the Media' (2002), pp. 259-317 in Boyd-Barrett, O., Newbold, C. and Van den Bulck, H. The Media Communication Module Book. London: Arnold Publication. 'Media, Women and Sport' in Boyd-Barrett, O. (ed.) (1996) Media text and Representation. MA in Mass Communications, Reader 5, pp. 203-229. Leicester:
University of Leicester.
Encyclopedia Entries
Steven Bochco, Encyclopedia of Television (forthcoming)
Book Reviews
Adrian Beard, The Language of Sport (London: Routledge): pp. 117-118 in Culture, Sport, Society Vol.3 No. 1 Spring 2000
Editorial Work
Co-edited with Neil Blain Media and Sport special issue of the journal Culture, Sport, Society published by Frank Cass (forthcoming August 2002) - to be followed by a book.
Work in Progress
" 'There is Basketball in Israel, Women's Basketball': Media Coverage Of Women's Basketball In Israel", to be published as a chapter in Sexual Sports Rhetoric (2003) edited by Linda K. Fuller
Conference Presentations
"There is Basketball in Israel, Women's Basketball: Media Coverage Of Women's Basketball In Israel", IAMCR Barcelona conference, 21-26 July, 2002 "Meeting the Industry - an interview with Alex Gilady", IAMCR Budapest Conference, 7-8 September, 2001 "Running Nowhere" - National Identity and the Media Coverage of Israels Football Team Attempt to Qualify for Euro 2000, IAMCR Singapore Conference, July 17-20, 2000 "Something is very rotten in the Kingdom of Israel": National Identity and the Coverage of Sport in the Israeli Media the Third International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, June 2000, 21-25, Birmingham, UK. "The Best Thriller!" and Yet Another One - Drama, Continuity and the Television Coverage of Sport' presented at La Longue Duree: Framing in Series, Serials and Other Macaroni Forms The 2nd Tel-Aviv Colloquium in Cinema Studies, June 8-11, 1998 "Things You Can See From There You Can't See From Here": Globalisation, Media and the Olympics presented at The 48th Annual Conference International Communication Association, July 20-24, 1998, Jerusalem, Israel "Men" and "Girls": Gender and the Media Coverage of the Olympics' presented at The 1996 International Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress, 10-14 July 1996, Dallas, Texas, USA "We are on the Map": Television Coverage of Basketball in Israel' Presented at International Association for Mass communication Research, 17th Conference, Bled, August 26-31, 1990 "Television Coverage of Maccabi Tel Aviv' Presented at the International Symposium of the International Committee for Sociology of Sport, Israel, June 29th-July 3rd, 1989 Invited Lectures
"Is it time for a victory lap? - Changes in the Media Coverage of Women in Sport", Play the Game, Copenhagen, 10-14 November, 2002 "Television and Children in Israel - Current Research", The Annual Mediterranean Regional Summit on Media for Children, Athens, 15-18 June, 2002 "Is it time for a victory lap? - Changes in the Media Coverage of Women in Sport", 6th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, 24-28 July 2001, Cologne, Germany Organizational Membership
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR); since 1999 head of the Media and Sport Section; since 2000 elected member of the international council International Communication Association (ICA) Society for Cinema Studies (SCS) Israel Communication Association (IsCA)