Anat Ben-David

anatbd[at]gmail.com

Education

Current (2008) – PhD candidate at the program for Science, Technology and Society, Bar-Ilan University.

2003-2004 – M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam (Cum Laude).

2001-2002 – Diploma in Humanities and Social Sciences from the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Amsterdam.

1998-2001 – B.A. in Psychology and Comparative Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Cum Laude).

Academic Interests

Anat Ben-David is affiliated with the Digital Methods Initative (University of Amsterdam), and with the Amsterdam-based research foundation Govcom.org, which develop software and tools for mapping and studying social and political issues on the Web. In the past five years she contributed to a research project called “Mapping the Ideational Space of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict”, collaboration between Govcom.org and the Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Programme. Anat's current research focuses on the role the Internet plays in the process of Palestinian state-formation.

Publications

Rogers, Richard and Anat Ben-David. 2008. The Palestinian-Israeli peace process and trans-national issue networks: The complicated place of the Israeli NGO. New Media & Society, 10, 3, 497-528. (Pdf)

Ben-David, Anat and Sam Bahour. 2009. Access to Information in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Global Information Society Watch 2009. 

Ben-David, Anat. 2010. La Palestine et ses frontières virtuelles 2.0: Du « non-lieu » à l’espace généré par les utilisateurs. Réseaux, 159,1, 151-179. (Abstract) 

Rogers, Richard and Anat Ben-David. 2010. Coming to Terms: A conflict analysis of the usage, in official and unofficial sources, of ‘security fence,’ ‘apartheid wall,’ and other terms for the structure between Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Media, Conflict & War, 2, 3, 2010. (Pdf)


Honors and Grants

2008 – President’s Scholarship, awarded to outstanding doctoral candidates, Bar-Ilan University.

2001-2002 Scholarship for attending a one-year exchange program at the University of Amsterdam, granted to outstanding graduate students, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1998-2001 Dean’s list, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.