E.R. (Eedan) Amit-Danhi, PhD

EDUCATION

2021 | Ph.D., Communication. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dissertation: "Back to the Drawing Board: Digital Political Visualizations Decoded." Supervisor: Limor Shifman.  Dissertation Committee: Paul Frosh, Gidi Rahat, Meital Balmas-Cohen.  

2014  | M.A., Internet and New Media, Communication. Hebrew University of Jerusalem (summa cum laude).

Thesis: "Identifying the Characteristics of Successful Political Infographics on Twitter"  Advisor: Limor Shifman.

2012 | B.A., Communication and Journalism & International Relations. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

RESEARCH POSITIONS        

2022-2024   Postdoctoral Researcher, Groningen University.

2022 Visiting Research Fellow, The Digital Communication and Society Fellowship, Leipzig University. Host: Christian Pentzold. 

2021-2022   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. PROFECI (ERC-Funded project). Principal Investigator: Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt.

PUBLICATIONS

Amit-Danhi, E. R. (2022). Strategic temporality: Information types and their rhetorical usage in digital election visualizations.  International Journal of Communication.

Amit-Danhi, E. R. (2021). Facts of (financial) life: Visualization strategies and political power structures in the 2015 Israeli elections. In "Data Visualizations and Policy-Making", special issue for Convergence.

Amit-Danhi, E. R., & Shifman, L. (2020). Off the charts: User engagement enhancers in election infographics. Information, Communication & Society.

Amit-Danhi, E. R., & Shifman, L. (2018). Digital political infographics: A rhetorical palette of an emergent genre. New Media & Society, 20 (10).

TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

Conference Presentations

2022       

Amit-Danhi, E. R., Aharoni, T., Baden, C.,  Overbeck, M., & K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt." The Co-creation of Coronavirus Projections between Journalists and Experts, in Israeli and US Media", presented at AoIR 2022, November 2022, Dublin.

Amit-Danhi, E. R., Pentzold, C. & K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, “The Shape of the Future: A Holistic Framework for Analyzing Predictive Visualization Rhetoric” presented at AoIR 2022, November 2022, Dublin.

Aharoni, T., Amit-Danhi, E. R., Overbeck, M., Baden, C., & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. "The textual construction of journalistic trustworthiness in election projections", presented at ECREA, October 2022, Aarhus.

Baden, C., Overbeck, M., Amit-Danhi, E. R., Aharoni, T., & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., “What are the chances? How media coverage and intrinsic tendencies shape voters’ probabilistic estimates about candidates’ electoral prospects in the two-round 2022 French presidential elections”, presented at ECREA, October 2022, Aarhus.

Amit-Danhi, E. R., Pentzold, C. & K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, “ERC Projects at the Hebrew University’s Communication Department” (presented ‘The Co-creation of Coronavirus Projections between Journalists and Experts, in Israeli and US Media’) presented at ISCA 2022, June 2022, Jerusalem.

Amit-Danhi, E. R., Aharoni, T., Baden, C.,  Overbeck, M., & K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt. "The Co-creation of Coronavirus Projections between Journalists and Experts, in Israeli and US Media", presented at ICA 2022, May 2022, Paris.

Amit-Danhi, E. R., Pentzold, C. & K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, “The Shape of the Future: Visualized Rhetoric of COVID-19 Projections by Journalists and Experts on Twitter” presented at ICA 2022, May 2022, Paris.

2021       

Amit-Danhi, E. R., “Facts of (financial) life: Visualization strategies and political power structures in the 2015 Israeli elections.” Presented at the AoIR 2021 virtual conference, October 2021.

Amit-Danhi, E. R., Aharoni, T., Baden, C.,  Overbeck, M., & K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt. “The multi-directionality of pandemic futures: Journalistic transformation of  COVID-19 projections in Israel, France and the US", to be presented (remotely) at “Communicating COVID”, APSA 2021 preconference, September 2021.

Amit-Danhi, E. R. & T. Aharoni, "'Seeing' into the future: A typology of future-oriented election visuals on twitter", presented at the ICA 2021 virtual conference, May, 2021.

Amit-Danhi, E. R. & L. Shifman, "TMI? Information rhetoric types in digital political infographics", presented at the ICA 2021 virtual conference, May, 2021.

Overbeck, M., Aharoni, T., Baden, C.,  Overbeck, M., Tenenboim-Weinblatt & E. R. Amit-Danhi, "Beyond sentiment: An algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora" presented at the ICA 2021 virtual conference, May, 2021.

Aharoni, T., Amit-Danhi, E. R., Baden, C., Overbeck, M., & K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt. "The production of news trustworthiness in political projections" presented at the ICA 2021 virtual conference, May, 2021.

2020       

Amit-Danhi, E. R. & T. Aharoni, “’Seeing’ into the future: A typology of future-oriented election visuals on twitter”, presented at the AoIR 2020 virtual conference, October 2020. * Winner, Most Engaging Visuals Video Award, AoIR 2020*

Amit-Danhi, E. R. & L. Shifman, ”TMI? Information rhetoric types in digital political infographics”, presented at the AoIR 2020 virtual conference, October 2020.

2019       

Amit-Danhi, E. R. & L. Shifman, “What makes an infographic engaging? Lessons from the 2016 US presidential elections”, presented at the ISCA 2019 Annual Conference. Jerusalem, April 2019.

Amit-Danhi, E. R.  & L. Shifman, “What makes an infographic successful? Lessons from the 2016 US presidential elections”, presented at the ICA 2019 Conference. Washington, DC, May 2019.

2018       

Amit-Danhi, E. R. & L. Shifman, “Let data speak? Tracing success enhancers of digital infographics in political campaigns”, presented at the AoIR 2018 conference. Montreal, October 2018.

2017       

Amit-Danhi, E. R. & L. Shifman, “Digital political infographics: A rhetorical palette of a new genre”, presented at ICA 2017 conference. San Diego, May 2017.

2015       

Amit-Danhi, E. R. "Back to the drawing board: Identifying the characteristics of successful political  infographics on Twitter", presented at the ISCA 2015 Annual Conference. Ra'anana, April 2015.

Panels Organized

2022        Amit-Danhi, E. R. & C. Pentzold (Chairs) “Seeing the Future on the News: Journalistic Visualizations of COVID-19 Measures and Predictions” – ICA 2022, May 2022, Paris. Participants: William Allen (Oxford University, Discussant), Helen Kennedy (Sheffield University), Ariel Chen (Leeds University), Giorgia Aiello (Leeds University), Chris W. Anderson (Leeds University), Eedan Amit-Danhi (Hebrew University), Christian Pentzold (Leipzig University).

Seminars, Workshops, and Colloquiums

2022        Early Career Scholars Workshop, Association of Internet Researchers – Member of Organizing Committee, Dubin, Ireland.

2021        Early Career Scholars Workshop, Association of Internet Researchers

2020        Data Visualization and Policy, Workshop in preparation for special issue full manuscript submission, hosted by editors Kathryn Nash, William Allen, and Verity Trott.

2019        Doctoral Colloquium, Association of Internet Researchers, Brisbane, Australia.

2019        Annual Masterclass in Memory of Prof. Shoshana Blum-Kulka, with Ruth Page, presented an initial version of "Strategic Temporality: Information-rhetoric types in digital political infographics."

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

2023        The ISF Postdoctoral Fellowship for Israeli Social Scientists, the Israeli Science Foundation.

2022        Digital Communication & Society Fellowship [visiting researcher, Inaugural Awardee], Dept. of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University.

2020        Most Engaging Visuals Video, AoIR 2020, for "'Seeing' into the future: A typology of future-oriented election visuals on Twitter”

2018        The Smart Doctoral Student Award for Excellence, the Smart Family Institute of Communications.

2018        Travel Grant, Research Student Authority, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2018        Travel Grant, Faculty of Social Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2017– 2019        Doctoral Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2017        The Smart Doctoral Student Award for Excellence, granted by Mary Smart and the Smart Family Institute of Communications.

2015        The Smart Institute Doctoral Research Grant, Smart Family Institute of Communications, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2014        Thesis Writing Grant for Exemplary Students. Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2014        Dean's Honor List, Social Sciences Faculty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Invited Talks

2023        The Political Rhetoric of Visualizations: Mapping a Digital Genre and its Political Implications, CMJS Lunch Lecture, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen.

2022        The Political Rhetoric of Info-graphics: Engagement, Power, and visualization Strategies, Departmental seminar, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University

Campus Talks

2021        Cognition-oriented Design, for: 'An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cognition Brain and Art', coordinated by Tal Nahari and Tamar Malinovitch, the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2018 – 2023         Practical principles of user experience and design, for: 'Online Journalism' (BA), taught by Yacov Netzer, Dept. of Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Guest Lectures

2014        Digital marketing for social change, for 'Social marketing to advance social issues: How to harness marketing thinking' (Nurit Guttman). Tel Aviv University [Shatil representative].

2013        Social Change & Social Media, Photographic Design BA at Hadassa College [Shatil representative].

 TEACHING & RESEARCH

Teaching (University of Groningen)

2023 Coordinator and Primary Instructor, 'Data for Society: Data-driven digital civic campaign', seminar and learning lab.

Teaching (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2021 Co-Instructor (with Christian Pentzold), ‘Media & Temporality’ faculty seminar.

2020 – 2022   Co-Instructor, Mediating the Future (with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt).  

2018 – 2021 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Mass Media (Limor Shifman).

2018 – 2021 Founding Instructor, The Internet and Society Industry Internship Program.

2014  Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Social Thought (Gadi Taub).

Research Experience

2014 – 2016   Research Assistant, to Raya Morag, Department of Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sample collection, literature reviews and administrative tasks for Prof. Morag's book, "Perpetrator Cinema.”

2014  Research Assistant, to Meital Balmas-Cohen, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Analysis of news articles about world leaders, and preparation of experimental materials.

REVIEWS & SERVICE

• New Media & Society

• Information, Communication & Society

• Feminist Media Studies

• Journal of European Public Policy

• Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

• International Communication Association

• Organizing committee, ECR Workshop, AoIR2022

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

2016 – 2018           Marketing and UX Team Leader, Pumika Digital, UX/UI & Digital Strategy Agency, Primary professional officer for marketing, branding, digital strategy, and website user experience for Pumika and its clients (leading international startups and tech products).

2014 – 2019           Marketing & Technology Advisor (Freelance). Assisted NGOs, small businesses, and startups with digital presence strategies, website user experience design, copy and micro-copy strategy, user experience writing and advocacy campaigns in social media.

2012 – 2014           Head of Digital Activities, Shatil (New Israel Fund), Strategist advisor and digital campaigner for various NGO's supported by the foundation.

 INDUSTRY CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

2014  Instructor and Organizer, Visualized information for social change, Shatil (NIF). A practical workshop using digital visualization tools, with guest lecture by prominent infographic designer Amnon Illuz.

2013  Conference Organizer and Host, Shinuy mekuvan (digital change), Shatil (NIF). Annual conference on digital tools for social change..

2012 – 2014   Instructor, Digital presence strategy workshops for NGOs, Shatil (NIF). Developed a series of lectures, as well as exercises and written material to introduce and train NGOs in optimal usage of their resources for the furthering of their social change agenda.