Chaim Noy
Chair (2021-preset), School of Communication, Bar-Ilan University
Immediate Past Chairperson, The Israeli Communication Association (2018-2012)
Vice President of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis
I am a Language, media and communication scholar, and my studies often make use of qualitative and ethnographic approaches to communication practices online and/or offline. I am interested in practices and performances, and specifically in the practice-text nexus. My interests overlap with linguistic anthropology, critical discourse studies, and new literacy studies, on the one hand, and with media, technology and material culture, on the other hand.
Address: School of Communication
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan
ISRAEL
Immediate Past Chairperson, The Israeli Communication Association (2018-2012)
Vice President of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis
I am a Language, media and communication scholar, and my studies often make use of qualitative and ethnographic approaches to communication practices online and/or offline. I am interested in practices and performances, and specifically in the practice-text nexus. My interests overlap with linguistic anthropology, critical discourse studies, and new literacy studies, on the one hand, and with media, technology and material culture, on the other hand.
Address: School of Communication
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan
ISRAEL
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The book presents many ethnographic observations and interviews, which were done both with the management of the site (Ammunition Hill National Memorial Site), and with the visitors themselves. The observations shed light on processes and practices involved in writing and reading, and on how visitors decide on what to write and how they collaborate on drafting their entries. The interviews with the site's management also illuminate the commemoration projects, and how museums and exhibitions are staged and managed.
Papers by Chaim Noy
The book presents many ethnographic observations and interviews, which were done both with the management of the site (Ammunition Hill National Memorial Site), and with the visitors themselves. The observations shed light on processes and practices involved in writing and reading, and on how visitors decide on what to write and how they collaborate on drafting their entries. The interviews with the site's management also illuminate the commemoration projects, and how museums and exhibitions are staged and managed.
discourse or travel ethos stressing authenticity, novelty, and spontaneity (often manifested in contrasting the categories of “backpackers” and “mass tourists”); and discourse of initiation and rite of passage (usually from adolescence to early adulthood). Backpackers have historically been characterized as young adults from Western countries, favoring faraway destinations in developing countries.
* Here is a link to an interesting article published in Ha'arez Newspaper about this collection (http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/intimations-of-immortality-1.357613)
The talk addresses research design in qualitative studies, and how knowledge is constructed from 'data' via multiple research methods research . [Hebrew]
What do tourists do in tourist spaces? They leave traces. Some may say that the main trace of tourists' activities is their carbon footprint. For others, it may be the contribution to the local economy, or it may be the millions of photographs of tourists shared through social media. For Chaim Noy, it is the linguistic inscriptions left behind by museum-goers in the visitor book at Ammunition Hill National Memorial Site in Jerusalem. Ammunition Hill is located at the site of a battle between Israel and Jordan during the Six-Day War. The battle was won by the Israeli forces, with a loss of thirty-seven soldiers and twice as many Jordanians. Nearly 1,000 Israelis and up to 15,000 Arabs were killed during the entire war. Originating as a site commemorating the Israeli victims of the war, Ammunition Hill has established itself as one of the spaces of nation-building with a strong Zionist ethos, alongside other heritage sites in Jerusalem—the Western Wall and Yad Vashem. The approximately 200,000 Ammunition Hill visitors are almost exclusively Jewish: school tours, individuals and groups visiting Jerusalem from other parts of Israel and abroad, and local residents, predominantly ultra-Orthodox Jewish families. Ammunition Hill is a site where different authenticities are produced through the choice of the site itself (the place of the actual battle with its remaining military installations) and a wide range of physical and discursive artefacts, including armory, a sculptural installation featuring the names of the 182 fallen Israeli soldiers, maps, paintings, photographs and original or photographically reproduced handwritten notes, signatures, letters, and signs. This cursive landscape establishes a specific linguistic ideology that authenticates, individualizes, and humanizes the site through the associations of handwriting with spontaneity, immediacy, and literacy. Recontextualizing these apparently banal textual artefacts as museum exhibits, encased, enlarged and enshrined, turns them into secular relics indexing the hands of the military personnel that wrote them as well as that operated the guns used in the War. The cultured acts of handwriting mitigate the inhuman acts of killing. They are at once holy and heroic. Apart from gazing, reading, listening to tour guides, touching (e.g. the remaining bunkers and trenches), and walking about the site, the handwriting exhibited in the museum prefigures another mode of consumption of Ammunition Hill by its visitors—their own writing in the museum's visitor book. Although not unique to this site and dating back to the emergence of visitor books at the aristocratic, European collecting institutions and museums in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the invitation for the visitors to inscribe their names and reflections in the museum's visitor book creates a coherence in the way the museum is experienced as a site of consumption and production of the ethno-national narrative of remembrance and unity.
http://tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv-review/2016/02/29/people-of-the-visitor-book-commemorative-practices-in-jerusalems-war-museum/
In Hebrew