Sheizaf Rafaeli

Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli (שיזף רפאלי), Israel (B.A., Haifa University, M.A. Ohio State University, M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University) is Director of the Center for the Study of the Information Society [http://infosoc.haifa.ac.il InfoSoc] and a Professor at the School of Management (Graduate School of Business Administration) [http://gsb.haifa.ac.il Haifa GSB] , [http://www.haifa.ac.il University of Haifa] Israel. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as head of the Information Systems area at the GSB in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was selected to head the School of Management at the University of Haifa, starting October, 2006.

Biography

Sheizaf writes weekly columns for the [http://www.globes.co.il Globes] financial and business newspaper and the [http://ynet.co.il YNet] news site.

Sheizaf has been involved in building internet-based activities such as online higher-education, journalism, political, governmental, social and economic virtual organizations and efforts. He authored software and books on graphics, electronic spreadsheets and statistical analysis, and a textbook on information systems for the Open University. He is co-editor, along with Fay Sudweeks and Margaret McLaughlin, of Network and NetPlay: Virtual Groups on the Internet published by MIT Press, 1998. He served as co-coordinator of the international ProjectH. He served as founder and co-editor of The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication [http://jcmc.indiana.edu JCMC] , and is proud of initiating and setting up the [http://shil.info SHIL (Citizen's Advice Board)] online service. He is currently a member of several editorial boards, including those of JCMC, ITSharenet and IJKL. Prof. Rafaeli is a long time member of the [http://www.stockholmchallenge.se Stockholm International Challenge Jury] for Information Systems' Projects. Sheizaf has served in visiting research and teaching positions at Ohio State University, Michigan State University, IBM, Stanford University, Technion, Israeli College of Management, and the University of Michigan. Over the past twenty five years he has taught courses on computers as media, and the social implications of new communication technologies, as well as numerous Information Systems' courses. Rafaeli's work on Interactivity and Virtual_Community, published by MIT Press, JCMC, and Oxford University Press is widely cited in the Information, Computer-Mediated Communication, Internet and Communication Research literatures.

As of October 2006, he serves as the chair of the School of Management (Business Administration), at the University of Haifa.

External links

* [http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net Sheizaf Rafaeli's personal home page]
* [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=6457 NetWork and NetPlay: MIT Press]
* [http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/aims.asp?ref=1083-6101&site=1 Blackwell Publishing JCMC website]
* [http://infosoc.haifa.ac.il InfoSoc's website]
* [http://www.ynet.co.il/headlines/1,7340,L-4996,00.html Rafaeli's YNet column]
* Jones, G. Ravid, G. and Rafaeli S. (2004) Information Overload and the Message Dynamics of Online Interaction Spaces: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Exploration, Information Systems Research Vol. 15 Issue 2, pp. 194-210.
* Rafaeli, S. (1988). Interactivity: From new media to communication. In R. P. Hawkins, J. M. Wiemann, & S. Pingree (Eds.), Sage Annual Review of Communication Research: Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes, 16, 110-134. Beverly Hills: Sage.
* Rafaeli, S. and Ariel, Y. (2007) "Assessing Interactivity in Computer-Mediated Research", in Joinson, A.N., McKenna, K.Y.A., Postmes, T. and Rieps, U.D. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology , Oxford University Press, (Chapter 6, pp. 71-88) 2007