Dr. Noam Tirosh is a Senior Lecturer and, since 2023, Head of the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on the intersections of memory and media with democracy, justice, and human rights. He has published extensively on topics such as the European Right to Be Forgotten, the memory rights of the Palestinian minority in Israel, and the experiences of refugees, asylum seekers, and Jews expelled from Arab countries.
In 2017, Dr. Tirosh and Prof. Amit Schejter received the Israel Communication Association’s Outstanding Book of the Year award for their co-authored work A Justice-Based Approach for New Media Policy: In the Paths of Righteousness. Together with Prof. Anna Reading, he co-edited the volume The Right to Memory – History, Media, Law, and Ethics in 2023. In 2024, he published a Hebrew-language book titled The Right to Forget – Why Did Kafka Want to Be Forgotten?
The Digital Media and Society Fellowship Program enables research stays at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University and aims to strengthen collaboration with international scholars in the study of networked communication and digital media. The program focuses on the following areas:
(1) Media Culture Research, especially media-related forms of practice in their cultural, sociotechnical, and temporal contexts;
(2) Digital Communication, particularly the production and appropriation of digitally networked media technologies and communication forms;
(3) Media Analysis, with a focus on reconstructing media content, its (multimodal, transmedia) forms of representation, and discursive formations across different forms of communication and media systems.
The Fellowship Program is hosted by the Chair of Media and Communication Studies and funded by Leipzig University. It covers travel expenses and accommodation in Leipzig. Fellows are provided with a workspace at the Chair of Media and Communication Studies.