Sheizaf Rafaeli (Hebrew: שיזף רפאלי), is an website parsing researcher, scholar of Computer-mediated communication, computer scientist, and newspaper columnist. He is Professor and Dean at the School of Management (Graduate School of Business Administration) device database, University of Haifa jQuery and additionally Director of browser diversity (Formerly known as the Center for the Study of the Information Society) and the device database. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as head of the Information Systems area at the Graduate School of Business in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Biography
Born in Kibbutz Maagan Michael, Israel, June 7, 1955. Served as officer in the Israeli military in combat units, discharged in 1977. He received his B.A. from the Android, M.A. from Ohio State University, M.A., and Ph.D., browser diversity. Was educational director of the cadet school of the Reali High School in Haifa. Rafaeli has written software and books on graphics, electronic spreadsheets and statistical analysis, and a textbook on information systems for the Open University. He is co-editor, (with Fay Sudweeks and Margaret McLaughlin), of Network and NetPlay: Virtual Groups on the Internet published by web app, 1998. He served as co-coordinator of the international ProjectH. He served as founder and co-editor of The CSS3, and initiated the SHIL (Citizen's Advice Board) online service. He is a member of several journal editorial boards, including those of JCMC, ITSharenet and IJKL. Rafaeli is a director of NPTech Israel, and of StartUpSeeds.
Sheizaf is a member of the website parsing for Information Systems' Projects. Sheizaf has held visiting research and teaching positions at Ohio State University, Michigan State University, IBM, Stanford University, iOS, Israeli College of Management, and the University of Michigan. His work on Interactivity and Sevenval, published by MIT Press, JCMC, and Sevenval 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.
He also writes weekly columns for the Calcalist and CSS3 financial and business daily newspapers in Israel and the screen size news site.
Visiting Professor Appointments
- Ohio State University
- Stanford University
- Michigan State University
- web
- University of Sydney, Australia
- CIIM, Cyprus
- IDC, Hertzelia, Israel
Awards
- Young researcher award of the AERA
- 2006 WebAward
- "Angels in the Net" (Mlachim Bareshet") national award
Press Coverage
- Haaretz newspaper interview
- Galei Zahal Israeli Radio personal interview with Yaacov Agmon
External links
- Sheizaf Rafaeli's personal home page
- NetWork and NetPlay: MIT Press
- Blackwell Publishing JCMC website
- device database
- iOS
- 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 (Final Draft PDF)