Historically, organizations and individuals have (un)consciously produced safe spaces out of vari... more Historically, organizations and individuals have (un)consciously produced safe spaces out of various backgrounds and in myriad ways. Specifically, queer safe spaces represent a significant construct within queer discourses and practices that articulate the need for physical, psychological, rhetoric, virtual, and imagined safety. In this context, safety means being protected from heteronormative and patriarchal violence that shapes the everyday lives and subjectivities of queer and LGBT+ individuals in public and private spaces. Whether these are offline, online, physical, or educational settings, queer safe spaces are defined as relational and deliberative spaces in which unsafety cannot be completely undone. Queer safe spaces then provide refuge for activism, social and personal transformation, facilitation thereof for productive spaces of dialogue, and identity construction. Even though the term “queer safe space” is commonly used, it remains undertheorized and no comprehensive un...
בעשור האחרון אנו עדים להתפשטותם של מצעדי גאווה בעולם, מערי המטרופולין
הגדולות לעבר ערים קטנות, וא... more בעשור האחרון אנו עדים להתפשטותם של מצעדי גאווה בעולם, מערי המטרופולין הגדולות לעבר ערים קטנות, ואפילו לאזורים כפריים. תהליך זה כרוך בהתעצבות קבוצות אקטיביסטיות ושיחים פוליטיים מסוג חדש, הבוחנים מהם המקומות הנכונים וההולמים שבהם יש לקיים מצעדי גאווה. מאמר זה מתמקד באירועי הגאווה בעיר אשדוד, העיר השישית בגודלה בארץ, ובוחן ממדים של זמן ומרחב קוויריים המעוגנים בצורות אפקטיביות. ההתמקדות בניתוח המרחבי של מצעד הגאווה חושפת שהאקטיביסטים שואפים לכונן מרחב ללהט"ב בעיר דרך קיום מצעד מרכזי ובעל נוכחות, בעוד המרחב המוקצה למצעד בעיר הישראלית מנותק למעשה מהחיים העירוניים מבחינה מרחבית וטמפורלית. התוצאה היא שהמצעד הוא מעין בועה המתקיימת למשך שעות ספורות, והשפעתו על העיר ועל תושביה מועטה. לבסוף, המשתתפים הצעירים במצעד מסמנים היבט נוסף של טמפורליות, ולפיו המצעד נערך עבור צעירים, המסמלים בנוכחותם אפשרות להמשך של חיים קוויריים בוגרים באשדוד ולהתגבשותם. לפיכך, טענתנו המרכזית היא שמצעדים בערים ישראליות יוצקים לתוכם ממדים טמפורליים שבמסגרתם ההווה מדומיין כבועת זמן, המנותקת הן מהעבר והן מהעתיד, ואשר נשענת על עתיד מדומיין. מבחינה מרחבית, המאמר מראה שהלוגיקה המנחה את המצעד בעיר הגלובלית מועתקת למרחב העיר הישראלית כמעט ללא התאמות. דבר זה מחדד את השאלה אם העיר הישראלית יכולה להצמיח עתיד ללהט"ב שאינו תלוי בתרבות של העיר הגדולה.
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication, 2022
Printed from Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Communication. Under the terms of the licence agreeme... more Printed from Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Communication. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a single article for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).
In recent decades, increased scholarly attention has been paid to the interactions between immigr... more In recent decades, increased scholarly attention has been paid to the interactions between immigration, media coverage, framing, and the rise of populism. This paper draws on these interactions to systematically review peer-reviewed articles related to media representations of immigrants and refugees in Brazil and the United Kingdom (UK). The objective was to identify the tone used in such representations and the research methods applied in the articles. This is the first systematic literature review that compares studies on media and immigration including both Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and non-WEIRD countries. This paper uses Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) to collect, map, and systematize 47 peer-reviewed articles published in the past two decades. The findings show that, in the studies we analyzed, the tone of representation of refugees in the media in both countries is negative. Mass media underrep...
The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in new behaviors and digital practices. This study explores how... more The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in new behaviors and digital practices. This study explores how digital media has advanced safer behavior among ultra-Orthodox Israeli adults during the pandemic in authoritarian societies. We explored the level of adherence to government-issued health guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting a public opinion survey among a representative sample of ultra-Orthodox Israeli adults ( N = 500) during the second Covid-19 wave (Autumn 2020). The results show that digital media usage significantly contributes to higher levels of adherence to health guidelines. This offers new insight into the field of new media research, revealing the significant role of digital media in promoting safer behavior in times of emergency in authoritarian communities, possibly because it bypasses Internet censorship and disinformation. It also emphasizes the need for adapting risk communication to the media habits and cultural beliefs of different social groups, in ...
Supplementam_Material_David for Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromis... more Supplementam_Material_David for Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromise in Intractable Conflict by Yossi David, Nimrod Rosler, and Ifat Maoz in Journal of Conflict Resolution
This short essay aims to critically engage with anti-Black racism and transnational activism in I... more This short essay aims to critically engage with anti-Black racism and transnational activism in Israel. It centers on performative speech acts used to dehumanize groups of others, mediated by the public imaginary of belonging, 1 as well as of threat and (in)security. Drawing on the biopolitical "power to 'make' live and 'let' die," 2 I discuss issues of overpolicing and police brutality against primarily people of color in Israel, 3 as well as the responses of different groups in Israeli society to the murder of George Floyd. Overpolicing of otherized groups is executed through profiling that is, in essence, based on stereotypes, and is used to identify anomalies, exceptions, irregularities, and queerness, in particular in liminal spaces such as airports. 4 Drawing on the racialized politics of doing security, wherein perceived security is provided to some people while being denied to racialized, ethicized, gendered, and sexualized others, 5 this article will focus on the rights to life and dignity and the ways in which anti-racism activism challenges the hegemonic and dominant Western perspective on race, racialization, and security. The other is represented and perceived as a dangerous and threatening suspect who may jeopardize a society's ingroup hegemony, and sense of security and safety, and they are thus eternally subject to suspicion, checking, and rechecking, while being deprived their own sense of security.
We introduce, in this study, a gendering human rights model in which perceiving outgroups as havi... more We introduce, in this study, a gendering human rights model in which perceiving outgroups as having stereotypical feminine traits predicts decreased support for violating their human rights through the mediation of threat perception. This model is tested in the context of the asymmetrical protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict using Jewish-Israeli public opinion polling data (N=517). In line with our expectations, the findings indicate that Jewish-Israeli perceptions of Palestinians as having stereotypical feminine traits predict lower levels of threat perception from Palestinians and consequently less support for violating their human rights. We discuss the implications of our findings for understanding factors that attenuate support for violation of human rights of an outgroup in other situations of violent asymmetric conflict.
Although attacks against gendered others have proliferated around the world, there remains a pauc... more Although attacks against gendered others have proliferated around the world, there remains a paucity of research examining the gender-biased climate that normalizes and condones racialization and d...
The goal of our study was to explore factors that underlie public support for compromise in protr... more The goal of our study was to explore factors that underlie public support for compromise in protracted, asymmetrical conflict. We introduce a gendering for compromise model in which, in line with previous studies (Maoz & McCauley, 2008), support for compromise is determined by perception of threat from the opponent. However, innovatively, our model also presents perception of the opponent as having stereotypical feminine traits as an important predictor of willingness to compromise in conflict. This model was tested in the context of the asymmetrical, protracted Israeli‐Palestinian conflict using representative of Jewish‐Israeli public opinion polling data (N 511). In line with our expectations, the findings indicated that Jewish‐Israeli perceptions of Palestinians as threatening and Jewish‐Israeli perceptions of Palestinians as having stereotypical feminine traits both made significant contributions to predicting attitudes toward compromise.
Media play an important role in informing the public about issues on the political agenda, differ... more Media play an important role in informing the public about issues on the political agenda, different opinions, and public statements, thereby establishing and bringing forth new spaces of information flow. One of the media’s main roles in democratic societies is to give publicity to central issues on the political and public agenda, especially in times of crisis. Nevertheless, studies have found that, in times of crisis, the public and the media tend to “rally ’round the flag,” leading to significant decreases in their criticality, alongside (almost) unreserved support for nation(al) or region(al) leaders. This paper aims to bridge the gap between both media and communication studies and geography by focusing on the interaction between media, space, and society. It will first address the role of media and information in times of crisis, then discuss the importance and dangers of homogenous (digital and mainstream) media discourses and technologies and offer a conceptual model for the role of media and information in times of crisis. Finally, we will examine the role of media and information during the COVID-19 infodemic and offer questions and directions for future studies.
To what extent do perceptions of public opinion effect individual support and political participa... more To what extent do perceptions of public opinion effect individual support and political participation in political action? To what extent might media use moderate the role of public opinion in pred...
The goal of the present study was to investigate how empathy and gender-empathic constructions af... more The goal of the present study was to investigate how empathy and gender-empathic constructions affect the levels of support for political compromise in an intractable conflict. Gender-empathic constructions relate to perceptions that individuals hold about self or others as having feminine-empathic gender traits. We hypothesized that empathy will be positively associated with support for compromise, but that perceiving one’s own group as feminine empathic will be negatively associated with such attitudes, with empathy being a significant mediator. Data were collected through a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jewish adults ( N = 511). The findings supported our hypotheses, thus indicating that perceiving one’s own group as having feminine-empathic traits and empathy toward opponents made significant contributions to explaining Jewish-Israeli willingness to compromise with Palestinians. The implications of our findings for understanding the role...
This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on... more This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on the occupied Gaza Strip over the last ten years, with a particular focus on the violent attack perpetrated in 2014. Taking the 2006 election of Hamas as a point of departure, the article analyses various manifestations of violence inscribed on the people of Gaza, including killing, injuring, starving, collective punishment, military assaults and other forms of cruelty. Drawing on a settler colonial framework, the article investigates Israel's violence as sacralized state criminality embedded in a local and global political economy of racism and impunity. It argues that Israeli crimes against Gazan Palestinians must be analysed as political technologies of counterinsurgent governmentality embedded in a structure of settler colonial dispossession initiated during the 1948 Nakba.
This study examines the role of digital media within the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israe... more This study examines the role of digital media within the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, a conservative closed community, whose leadership is unable or unwilling to control the effects of digital media on the rank-and-file. Over the past decade, digital media have played an important role for challenging authoritarian rule around the globe. Especially in ideological communities sustained by strict taboos, digital media hold the potential to subvert hegemonic discourses. In this study, we make use of an incident that forced Israel's Ultra-Orthodox community to address its long-standing taboo and hateful attitudes toward LGBT and Queer issues. In July 2015, an Ultra-Orthodox community member attacked participants of the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, murdering one and wounding six. While traditional community media attempted to ignore the event, two major Ultra-Orthodox news websites fell outside the control exercised by the community leadership, and enabled subversive discussions within the Ultra-Orthodox community. Through a process of negotiating the meaning of the attack, these discussions resulted in a reframing of the boundaries of the community, breaking a path for further contestation and debate. Using grounded theory analysis, this article contributes to a better understanding of the role of digital media in enabling contestation and challenging established power structures within authoritarian closed communities.
Historically, organizations and individuals have (un)consciously produced safe spaces out of vari... more Historically, organizations and individuals have (un)consciously produced safe spaces out of various backgrounds and in myriad ways. Specifically, queer safe spaces represent a significant construct within queer discourses and practices that articulate the need for physical, psychological, rhetoric, virtual, and imagined safety. In this context, safety means being protected from heteronormative and patriarchal violence that shapes the everyday lives and subjectivities of queer and LGBT+ individuals in public and private spaces. Whether these are offline, online, physical, or educational settings, queer safe spaces are defined as relational and deliberative spaces in which unsafety cannot be completely undone. Queer safe spaces then provide refuge for activism, social and personal transformation, facilitation thereof for productive spaces of dialogue, and identity construction. Even though the term “queer safe space” is commonly used, it remains undertheorized and no comprehensive un...
בעשור האחרון אנו עדים להתפשטותם של מצעדי גאווה בעולם, מערי המטרופולין
הגדולות לעבר ערים קטנות, וא... more בעשור האחרון אנו עדים להתפשטותם של מצעדי גאווה בעולם, מערי המטרופולין הגדולות לעבר ערים קטנות, ואפילו לאזורים כפריים. תהליך זה כרוך בהתעצבות קבוצות אקטיביסטיות ושיחים פוליטיים מסוג חדש, הבוחנים מהם המקומות הנכונים וההולמים שבהם יש לקיים מצעדי גאווה. מאמר זה מתמקד באירועי הגאווה בעיר אשדוד, העיר השישית בגודלה בארץ, ובוחן ממדים של זמן ומרחב קוויריים המעוגנים בצורות אפקטיביות. ההתמקדות בניתוח המרחבי של מצעד הגאווה חושפת שהאקטיביסטים שואפים לכונן מרחב ללהט"ב בעיר דרך קיום מצעד מרכזי ובעל נוכחות, בעוד המרחב המוקצה למצעד בעיר הישראלית מנותק למעשה מהחיים העירוניים מבחינה מרחבית וטמפורלית. התוצאה היא שהמצעד הוא מעין בועה המתקיימת למשך שעות ספורות, והשפעתו על העיר ועל תושביה מועטה. לבסוף, המשתתפים הצעירים במצעד מסמנים היבט נוסף של טמפורליות, ולפיו המצעד נערך עבור צעירים, המסמלים בנוכחותם אפשרות להמשך של חיים קוויריים בוגרים באשדוד ולהתגבשותם. לפיכך, טענתנו המרכזית היא שמצעדים בערים ישראליות יוצקים לתוכם ממדים טמפורליים שבמסגרתם ההווה מדומיין כבועת זמן, המנותקת הן מהעבר והן מהעתיד, ואשר נשענת על עתיד מדומיין. מבחינה מרחבית, המאמר מראה שהלוגיקה המנחה את המצעד בעיר הגלובלית מועתקת למרחב העיר הישראלית כמעט ללא התאמות. דבר זה מחדד את השאלה אם העיר הישראלית יכולה להצמיח עתיד ללהט"ב שאינו תלוי בתרבות של העיר הגדולה.
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication, 2022
Printed from Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Communication. Under the terms of the licence agreeme... more Printed from Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Communication. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a single article for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).
In recent decades, increased scholarly attention has been paid to the interactions between immigr... more In recent decades, increased scholarly attention has been paid to the interactions between immigration, media coverage, framing, and the rise of populism. This paper draws on these interactions to systematically review peer-reviewed articles related to media representations of immigrants and refugees in Brazil and the United Kingdom (UK). The objective was to identify the tone used in such representations and the research methods applied in the articles. This is the first systematic literature review that compares studies on media and immigration including both Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and non-WEIRD countries. This paper uses Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) to collect, map, and systematize 47 peer-reviewed articles published in the past two decades. The findings show that, in the studies we analyzed, the tone of representation of refugees in the media in both countries is negative. Mass media underrep...
The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in new behaviors and digital practices. This study explores how... more The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in new behaviors and digital practices. This study explores how digital media has advanced safer behavior among ultra-Orthodox Israeli adults during the pandemic in authoritarian societies. We explored the level of adherence to government-issued health guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting a public opinion survey among a representative sample of ultra-Orthodox Israeli adults ( N = 500) during the second Covid-19 wave (Autumn 2020). The results show that digital media usage significantly contributes to higher levels of adherence to health guidelines. This offers new insight into the field of new media research, revealing the significant role of digital media in promoting safer behavior in times of emergency in authoritarian communities, possibly because it bypasses Internet censorship and disinformation. It also emphasizes the need for adapting risk communication to the media habits and cultural beliefs of different social groups, in ...
Supplementam_Material_David for Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromis... more Supplementam_Material_David for Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromise in Intractable Conflict by Yossi David, Nimrod Rosler, and Ifat Maoz in Journal of Conflict Resolution
This short essay aims to critically engage with anti-Black racism and transnational activism in I... more This short essay aims to critically engage with anti-Black racism and transnational activism in Israel. It centers on performative speech acts used to dehumanize groups of others, mediated by the public imaginary of belonging, 1 as well as of threat and (in)security. Drawing on the biopolitical "power to 'make' live and 'let' die," 2 I discuss issues of overpolicing and police brutality against primarily people of color in Israel, 3 as well as the responses of different groups in Israeli society to the murder of George Floyd. Overpolicing of otherized groups is executed through profiling that is, in essence, based on stereotypes, and is used to identify anomalies, exceptions, irregularities, and queerness, in particular in liminal spaces such as airports. 4 Drawing on the racialized politics of doing security, wherein perceived security is provided to some people while being denied to racialized, ethicized, gendered, and sexualized others, 5 this article will focus on the rights to life and dignity and the ways in which anti-racism activism challenges the hegemonic and dominant Western perspective on race, racialization, and security. The other is represented and perceived as a dangerous and threatening suspect who may jeopardize a society's ingroup hegemony, and sense of security and safety, and they are thus eternally subject to suspicion, checking, and rechecking, while being deprived their own sense of security.
We introduce, in this study, a gendering human rights model in which perceiving outgroups as havi... more We introduce, in this study, a gendering human rights model in which perceiving outgroups as having stereotypical feminine traits predicts decreased support for violating their human rights through the mediation of threat perception. This model is tested in the context of the asymmetrical protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict using Jewish-Israeli public opinion polling data (N=517). In line with our expectations, the findings indicate that Jewish-Israeli perceptions of Palestinians as having stereotypical feminine traits predict lower levels of threat perception from Palestinians and consequently less support for violating their human rights. We discuss the implications of our findings for understanding factors that attenuate support for violation of human rights of an outgroup in other situations of violent asymmetric conflict.
Although attacks against gendered others have proliferated around the world, there remains a pauc... more Although attacks against gendered others have proliferated around the world, there remains a paucity of research examining the gender-biased climate that normalizes and condones racialization and d...
The goal of our study was to explore factors that underlie public support for compromise in protr... more The goal of our study was to explore factors that underlie public support for compromise in protracted, asymmetrical conflict. We introduce a gendering for compromise model in which, in line with previous studies (Maoz & McCauley, 2008), support for compromise is determined by perception of threat from the opponent. However, innovatively, our model also presents perception of the opponent as having stereotypical feminine traits as an important predictor of willingness to compromise in conflict. This model was tested in the context of the asymmetrical, protracted Israeli‐Palestinian conflict using representative of Jewish‐Israeli public opinion polling data (N 511). In line with our expectations, the findings indicated that Jewish‐Israeli perceptions of Palestinians as threatening and Jewish‐Israeli perceptions of Palestinians as having stereotypical feminine traits both made significant contributions to predicting attitudes toward compromise.
Media play an important role in informing the public about issues on the political agenda, differ... more Media play an important role in informing the public about issues on the political agenda, different opinions, and public statements, thereby establishing and bringing forth new spaces of information flow. One of the media’s main roles in democratic societies is to give publicity to central issues on the political and public agenda, especially in times of crisis. Nevertheless, studies have found that, in times of crisis, the public and the media tend to “rally ’round the flag,” leading to significant decreases in their criticality, alongside (almost) unreserved support for nation(al) or region(al) leaders. This paper aims to bridge the gap between both media and communication studies and geography by focusing on the interaction between media, space, and society. It will first address the role of media and information in times of crisis, then discuss the importance and dangers of homogenous (digital and mainstream) media discourses and technologies and offer a conceptual model for the role of media and information in times of crisis. Finally, we will examine the role of media and information during the COVID-19 infodemic and offer questions and directions for future studies.
To what extent do perceptions of public opinion effect individual support and political participa... more To what extent do perceptions of public opinion effect individual support and political participation in political action? To what extent might media use moderate the role of public opinion in pred...
The goal of the present study was to investigate how empathy and gender-empathic constructions af... more The goal of the present study was to investigate how empathy and gender-empathic constructions affect the levels of support for political compromise in an intractable conflict. Gender-empathic constructions relate to perceptions that individuals hold about self or others as having feminine-empathic gender traits. We hypothesized that empathy will be positively associated with support for compromise, but that perceiving one’s own group as feminine empathic will be negatively associated with such attitudes, with empathy being a significant mediator. Data were collected through a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jewish adults ( N = 511). The findings supported our hypotheses, thus indicating that perceiving one’s own group as having feminine-empathic traits and empathy toward opponents made significant contributions to explaining Jewish-Israeli willingness to compromise with Palestinians. The implications of our findings for understanding the role...
This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on... more This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on the occupied Gaza Strip over the last ten years, with a particular focus on the violent attack perpetrated in 2014. Taking the 2006 election of Hamas as a point of departure, the article analyses various manifestations of violence inscribed on the people of Gaza, including killing, injuring, starving, collective punishment, military assaults and other forms of cruelty. Drawing on a settler colonial framework, the article investigates Israel's violence as sacralized state criminality embedded in a local and global political economy of racism and impunity. It argues that Israeli crimes against Gazan Palestinians must be analysed as political technologies of counterinsurgent governmentality embedded in a structure of settler colonial dispossession initiated during the 1948 Nakba.
This study examines the role of digital media within the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israe... more This study examines the role of digital media within the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, a conservative closed community, whose leadership is unable or unwilling to control the effects of digital media on the rank-and-file. Over the past decade, digital media have played an important role for challenging authoritarian rule around the globe. Especially in ideological communities sustained by strict taboos, digital media hold the potential to subvert hegemonic discourses. In this study, we make use of an incident that forced Israel's Ultra-Orthodox community to address its long-standing taboo and hateful attitudes toward LGBT and Queer issues. In July 2015, an Ultra-Orthodox community member attacked participants of the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, murdering one and wounding six. While traditional community media attempted to ignore the event, two major Ultra-Orthodox news websites fell outside the control exercised by the community leadership, and enabled subversive discussions within the Ultra-Orthodox community. Through a process of negotiating the meaning of the attack, these discussions resulted in a reframing of the boundaries of the community, breaking a path for further contestation and debate. Using grounded theory analysis, this article contributes to a better understanding of the role of digital media in enabling contestation and challenging established power structures within authoritarian closed communities.
Borderlands - queer safe spaces special issue, 2018
Queering Safety? An Introduction Concepts and ideas about the construction of safe(r) spaces have... more Queering Safety? An Introduction Concepts and ideas about the construction of safe(r) spaces have been around for decades; the labor of creating social space as a safe space within queer communities is a task of great importance (Hanhardt 2013). This special issue of borderlands offers an interdisciplinary investigation of the ongoing discussion on queer safe spaces, seeing them as a contemporary and radical understanding and practice. The idea for this special issue developed as a result of the III Geographies of Sexualities Conference in Rome, in which we held a triple session on queer safe spaces in the summer of 2015. These sessions enabled an academic discussion on the topic, highlighting and starting to fill in the gaps in theorization and the numerous dilemmas it raises—both in academic and activist arenas. This special issue presents a collection of papers that aim to improve our understanding of the construction of safety within queer spaces, discourses, and realms, and the challenges such spaces face. This introduction presents a general theoretical framework of queer safe spaces, focusing on two dimensions: first, the logics that are produced through discourses of queer safe space and second, the practices that produce spaces as safe. Logics In order to give the reader a general introduction into our discussion of queer safe spaces, we would like to first discuss one of the ways in which the rhetoric, constructions, and expectations connected to queer safe spaces might result in unsafe spaces. In other words, we will examine one of the ways in which, paradoxically, the logics of queer safe spaces work to undo or restrict the sense of safety within queer
The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in new behaviors and digital practices. This study explores how... more The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in new behaviors and digital practices. This study explores how digital media has advanced safer behavior among ultra-Orthodox Israeli adults during the pandemic in authoritarian societies. We explored the level of adherence to government-issued health guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting a public opinion survey among a representative sample of ultra-Orthodox Israeli adults (N = 500) during the second Covid-19 wave (Autumn 2020). The results show that digital media usage significantly contributes to higher levels of adherence to health guidelines. This offers new insight into the field of new media research, revealing the significant role of digital media in promoting safer behavior in times of emergency in authoritarian communities, possibly because it bypasses Internet censorship and disinformation. It also emphasizes the need for adapting risk communication to the media habits and cultural beliefs of different social groups, in turn contributing to well-being and life itself.
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הגדולות לעבר ערים קטנות, ואפילו לאזורים כפריים. תהליך זה כרוך בהתעצבות קבוצות
אקטיביסטיות ושיחים פוליטיים מסוג חדש, הבוחנים מהם המקומות הנכונים וההולמים
שבהם יש לקיים מצעדי גאווה. מאמר זה מתמקד באירועי הגאווה בעיר אשדוד, העיר
השישית בגודלה בארץ, ובוחן ממדים של זמן ומרחב קוויריים המעוגנים בצורות
אפקטיביות. ההתמקדות בניתוח המרחבי של מצעד הגאווה חושפת שהאקטיביסטים
שואפים לכונן מרחב ללהט"ב בעיר דרך קיום מצעד מרכזי ובעל נוכחות, בעוד המרחב
המוקצה למצעד בעיר הישראלית מנותק למעשה מהחיים העירוניים מבחינה מרחבית
וטמפורלית. התוצאה היא שהמצעד הוא מעין בועה המתקיימת למשך שעות ספורות,
והשפעתו על העיר ועל תושביה מועטה. לבסוף, המשתתפים הצעירים במצעד מסמנים
היבט נוסף של טמפורליות, ולפיו המצעד נערך עבור צעירים, המסמלים בנוכחותם אפשרות להמשך של חיים קוויריים בוגרים באשדוד ולהתגבשותם. לפיכך, טענתנו
המרכזית היא שמצעדים בערים ישראליות יוצקים לתוכם ממדים טמפורליים שבמסגרתם
ההווה מדומיין כבועת זמן, המנותקת הן מהעבר והן מהעתיד, ואשר נשענת על עתיד
מדומיין. מבחינה מרחבית, המאמר מראה שהלוגיקה המנחה את המצעד בעיר הגלובלית
מועתקת למרחב העיר הישראלית כמעט ללא התאמות. דבר זה מחדד את השאלה אם
העיר הישראלית יכולה להצמיח עתיד ללהט"ב שאינו תלוי בתרבות של העיר הגדולה.
הגדולות לעבר ערים קטנות, ואפילו לאזורים כפריים. תהליך זה כרוך בהתעצבות קבוצות
אקטיביסטיות ושיחים פוליטיים מסוג חדש, הבוחנים מהם המקומות הנכונים וההולמים
שבהם יש לקיים מצעדי גאווה. מאמר זה מתמקד באירועי הגאווה בעיר אשדוד, העיר
השישית בגודלה בארץ, ובוחן ממדים של זמן ומרחב קוויריים המעוגנים בצורות
אפקטיביות. ההתמקדות בניתוח המרחבי של מצעד הגאווה חושפת שהאקטיביסטים
שואפים לכונן מרחב ללהט"ב בעיר דרך קיום מצעד מרכזי ובעל נוכחות, בעוד המרחב
המוקצה למצעד בעיר הישראלית מנותק למעשה מהחיים העירוניים מבחינה מרחבית
וטמפורלית. התוצאה היא שהמצעד הוא מעין בועה המתקיימת למשך שעות ספורות,
והשפעתו על העיר ועל תושביה מועטה. לבסוף, המשתתפים הצעירים במצעד מסמנים
היבט נוסף של טמפורליות, ולפיו המצעד נערך עבור צעירים, המסמלים בנוכחותם אפשרות להמשך של חיים קוויריים בוגרים באשדוד ולהתגבשותם. לפיכך, טענתנו
המרכזית היא שמצעדים בערים ישראליות יוצקים לתוכם ממדים טמפורליים שבמסגרתם
ההווה מדומיין כבועת זמן, המנותקת הן מהעבר והן מהעתיד, ואשר נשענת על עתיד
מדומיין. מבחינה מרחבית, המאמר מראה שהלוגיקה המנחה את המצעד בעיר הגלובלית
מועתקת למרחב העיר הישראלית כמעט ללא התאמות. דבר זה מחדד את השאלה אם
העיר הישראלית יכולה להצמיח עתיד ללהט"ב שאינו תלוי בתרבות של העיר הגדולה.