Shani Orgad
About Dr Shani Orgad
Dr Shani Orgad is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. She currently directs the MSc programme New Media, Information and Society. She holds a BA in Media and Communications, Sociology and Anthropology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MSc in Media and Communications and a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics.
Orgad’s research interests include the social and cultural impact of new media, media and everyday life, media and globalisation, health and new media, gender and the media, narrative and media, and methodological aspects of Internet research. She has most recently studied the use of the Internet by cancer patients, and published the book Storytelling Online: Talking Breast Cancer on the Internet (Peter Lang, 2005). Orgad has been involved in research on children and the Internet for the National Children Bureau, UK (together with Professor Sonia Livingstone, 2001-1002), children’s Internet safety and media parental control mechanisms for the British Broadcast Standard Commission and Independent Television Commission, UK (together with Professor Sonia Livingstone, 2000-2001). She has also consulted for Cancer Organisations on the use of the Internet for their communication.
She has lectured on Internet, Communication and Globalisation, Media, Culture and Society, Media and Globalisation, and Media and Gender to undergraduates and postgraduates in both Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. Orgad is on the editorial board for New Media and Society and the Review board of the Association of Internet Researchers. She has participated as a chair, organiser, reviewer and speaker in number of international conferences, for example, Association of Internet Researchers’ annual conferences (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), Computer-Mediated Communication, the Internet, and Social Aspects thereof (2002), The Value of Information in Networked Contexts (2004), and Global Media Matter (2002).
