Sheizaf Rafaeli Director of INFOSOC - Center for the Study of the Information Society and Professor - Graduate School of Management (Business Administration) University of Haifa Israel
Please click here for a formal picture Sheizaf 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, Or click here for an informal composite photo	!ילאפר ףזיש לש תיבה ףדל הבחרמו םולש Hello, Shalom and Marhaba to Sheizaf's home page. I am at the Graduate School of Business, and the Center for the Study of the Information Society, the University of Haifa. I can be reached at: sheizaf@rafaeli.net Phone: +972-4-8249578 Fax: +972-4-8249194 Room 10 (624, 6th floor), Jacobs Building Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Haifa Mt. Carmel, Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL please see map here Short Bio         Columns: Calcalist, YNet, Globes         Academic Publications         Interests         Research Group
sheizaf.rafaeli.net http://ebusiness.rafaeli.net/ Virtual Community Syllabi Raanana and Haifa Electronic Markets syllabi, Open University, 2007 ITSharenet.org itsharenet IT sharing michigan home page Management Information Systems intro course QSIA online test items and knowledge management AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers) 2nd annual conference keynote talk, Minneapolis, Oct.2001 Virtual Community Seminar NCIP CPG -- Online BioInformatics U. Haifa, Michigan and Technion E-Business and E-Commerce courses CIS519 CIS551Winter 2000 CIS745 Michigan E-commerce class Research Methods class Lemonade Stand simulation Online Auctions experiment Access logs lecture Privacy talk CMC & High - Ed : Distance Learning or Distant from Learning? Online Journals draft CMC and / or Higher Education talk and Resources MIS textbook Travel (Virtual Geography) talk Human resources talk, March 2004: the internet, org. knowledge and value added QSIA talk at ICEB, Singapore Ascolot Talk , Hakika BaInternet, April 2006 Death of Distance Talk, Mata"h, Sept. 2005 Peace Journalism / Blog Polarization, June 2006 The Digital Revolution Talk, October, 2005 SHIL home page			INFOSOC: Center for the Study of the Information Society Knowledge Sharing and Net, talk at Open University, Oct. 2003, Click here for the online video QSIA talk , Oct. 2003, IDC and Bar Ilan June, 2004 Update QSIA talk at Ben Gurion, June 2004 Value of Info in Shared Contexts IBM conference, Oct. 2003 Knowledge and Net talk, May 2003 meeting Univ. of Haifa Picnic or Jungle talk Igud HaInternet, May 2003 Eshnav 2002 Privacy talk Hebrew html pointers HULIA home page Supply Chain Simulation GSB home Computers and Communication Intro lecture Cyber Culture talk VIrtual Organization talk Elka Kenes talk CMC Intro lecture II Policy talk My Excite Tmunot , Pix.Rafaeli.net, pix The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, JCMC - Los Angeles Research Methods Law talk, Nov. 2001 Interactivity talk, Beer Sheva, May 2002 Value of Information (Iyanti) talk, May 2002 Networked Disintermediation talk, August 2003 Ethics in Computing talk, Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem, Sept. 2003 Serious Games Talk, Usability Day, 2007 Serious Games Talk, Meital Conference, Haifa, 2008 Wiki textbooks talk, E-Teacher talk, Hertzelia, July 2006 Why not Ph.D.?
	Research: Computer Mediated Communciation Value of Information Online Auctions Electronic Business, Virtual Communities and Organizations Online management, auctions, learning, government Effects and correlates of Interactivity Effects and correlates of Hypertextuality Effects and corrleates of Synchronicity Effects and correlates of individual, group, organizational and social use of CMC Teaching: E-Business and E-Commerce courses Courses and materials at Michigan Some Research Methods stuff Research Seminar in Information Systems Microcomputer Laboratory: Application Development Communication Technologies and Social Change Short Bio         Columns: Calcalist, YNet, Globes         Academic Publications         Interests         Research Group
Short Bio Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli (B.A., Haifa University, M.A. Ohio State University, M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University) is Director of the Center for the Study of the Information Society and Head of the Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa Israel. He also leads the "Games for Exectives Project". Previously, he served as head of the Information Systems area at the GSB in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 1986. His interests are in computers as media. He has published on this topic in journals such as Behavior and Information Technology, Communication Research, Computers and the Social Sciences, Computers and Human Behaviour (CHB), Journal of Communication, Information and Software Technology, Information Systems Research (ISR), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), the International Journal of Electronic Business, the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Computers and Education, the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling (IJSPM), and the Journal of Broadcasting. Sheizaf has been writing weekly columns for the Globes and Calcalist financial and business newspapers, and for YNet, a leading news portal. He is also active in practicing what he preaches: He has been involved in building internet-based activities such as online higher-education, journalism, political, governmental, social and economic virtual organizations and efforts. He authored software and books on graphics, electronic spreadsheets and statistical analysis, and a textbook on information systems for the Open University. He is co-editor, along with Fay Sudweeks and Margaret McLaughlin, of Network and NetPlay: Virtual Groups on the Internet published by MIT Press, 1998. He served as co-coordinator of the international ProjectH. He served as founder and co-editor of The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and is proud of initiating and setting up the SHIL (Citizen's Advice Board) online service. He is currently member of several editorial boards, including those of JCMC, ITSharenet and IJKL. Prof. Rafaeli is a long time member of the Stockholm International Challenge Jury for Information Systems' Projects. Sheizaf has served in visiting research and teaching positions at Ohio State University, Michigan State University, IBM, Stanford University, Technion, Israeli College of Management, and the University of Michigan. His current interests include Online Games, Simulation, and Serious Games. Over the past twenty five years he has taught courses on computers as media, and the social implications of new communication technologies, as well as numerous Information Systems' courses. You may want to visit me and sites I am involved with at: JCMC The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication My page and courses at Haifa My page and courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem My page and courses at the University of Michigan ProjectH SHIL: The Citizens' Advice Bureau Electronic Commerce and E-Business courses University of Haifa Management Information Systems Course Hebrew University Management Information Systems Course Computers, Communication Technology, and Social Change School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Haifa

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Recent papers:

• Rafaeli, S. (2003, 2009) Computing Ethics, talk and book chapter. text scan, http://rafaeli.net/Rafaeli_computers_ethics.PDF : in Assa Kasher (Ed.) "Mevo'ot HeEtika", Magnes, Jerusalem, 2009 pp. 61.-86
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Hayat, T. and Ariel Y. (2009) Knowledge Building and Motivations in Wikipedia: Participation as "Ba". In Francisco J. Ricardo (ed.) Cyberculture and New Media, (pp. 52-69), Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi *.
  
  
• Nov, O. and Rafaeli, S. (2009) Measuring the premium on common knowledge in computer-mediated coordination problems, Computers in Human Behavior 25 (2009) pp. 171–174. *
  
  
• Ganayem, A.N., Rafaeli, S. and Azaiza, F (2009) Digital Gap: Internet Use in the Arab Society in Israel. (Hebrew) Megamot.46(1-2_ pp. 164-196 *
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., & Ariel, Y. (2008). Online motivational factors: Incentives for participation and contribution in Wikipedia. In A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications (pp. 243-267). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Available online as http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizaf/cyberpsych/11-Rafaeli&Ariel.pdf. The support site for the book is here: http://cyberpsych.yeda.info
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. Hayat, T. and Ariel, Y. (2008) Virtual Knowledge-Building Communities, in Putnik, G.D. and Cunha, M.M. Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, New York: Information Science Reference, Volume 3, pp. 1792-1796.
  
  
• Ravid, G., Kalman, Y.M., Rafaeli, S. (2008). Wikibooks in Higher Education: Empowerment through Online Distributed Collaboration. Computers in Human Behavior (24), pp. 1913-1928. http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net/RavidKalmanRafaeliWikibooksInHigherEducation.pdf
  
  
• Harper, M. F., Raban, D. R., Konstan, J. K. and Rafaeli, S. (2008). Predictors of Answer Quality in Online Q&A sites. CHI 2008, Florence, Italy. PDF
  
  
• Barak, M. and Rafaeli, S. (2008) QSIA Online Knowledge Sharing System: Shared Development and Peer Evaluation", (Hebrew) Al-Hagova, Issue 7, pp. 25-29.
  
  
• Kalman, Y. and Rafaeli, S. (2008) Chronemic Nonverbal Expectancy Violations in Written Computer Mediated Communication, paper presented to the International Communication Association Annual Conference, May 2008, Montreal CA. proofs here
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Raban, D.R. and Ravid, G. (2007) "Social And Economic Incentives in Google Answers" in K. Sangeetha and P. Sivarajadhanavel (Eds.) Google's Growth, A Success Story ICFAI University Press, pp. 150-161 pdf available here
  
  
• Lytras, M.D., Rafaeli, S. Downes, S. Naeve, A. and Ordonez de Pablos, P. (Special Issue Editors) (2007) "Learning and Interacting in the Web: Social networks and Social Software in the Web 2.0". Special Issue of International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL), Volume 3, Nos 4/5, pp. 367-548. InderScience. Issue available here.
  
  
• 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. draft preprint and proofs
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Raban, D.R. and Ravid, G. (2007) 'How social motivation enhances economic activity and incentives in the Google Answers knowledge sharing market', International Journal of Knowledge and Learning ( IJKL ), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.1-11. http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=12598&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or
  
  
• Raban, D.R. and Rafaeli, S. (2007) Investigating ownership and the willingness to share information online, Computers in Human Behavior 23 (2007) 2367–2382
  
  
• Ravid, G. Bar-Ilan, J. Baruchson-Arbib, S. and Rafaeli, S. (2007) Popularity and findability through log analysis of search terms and queries: the case of a multilingual public service website, Journal of Information Science.
  
  
• Kalman, Y. M., Ravid, G., Raban, D. R., and Rafaeli, S. (2006). Pauses and response latencies: A chronemic analysis of asynchronous CMC. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, ( JCMC ) 12(1), article 1. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue1/kalman.html
  
  
• Soroka, V. and Rafaeli, S. (2006) Invisible Participants: How Cultural Capital Relates to Lurking Behavior, paper presented at the WWW 2006, May 23–26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  
  
• Ravid, G., Bar-Ilan, J., Rafaeli, S. and Baruchson-Arbib, S. (2006), Analysis of Queries Reaching SHIL on the Web - An Information System Providing Citizen Information, in O. Etzion, T. Kuflik, and A. Motro (Eds.): NGITS 2006, LNCS 4032, pp. 26 - 37, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg 2006.
  
  
• Raban, D.R. and Rafaeli, S. (2006) The Effect of Source Nature and Status on the Subjective Value of Information Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ( JASIST ), Volume 57, Issue 3 (p 321-329)
  
  
• Kalman, Y.M., Ravid G., Raban, D.R. & Rafaeli S. (2006). Speak *now* or forever hold your peace: power law chronemics of turn-taking and response in asynchronous CMC. Paper to be presented at the 2006 ICA Conference in Dresden, Germany
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Raban, R.D., & Ravid, G., (2005). Social and Economic Incentives in Google Answers. ACM Group 2005 conference, Sanibel Island, Florida, November 2005. http://jellis.net/research/group2005/papers/RafaeliRabanRavidGoogleAnswersGroup05.pdf
  
  
• Some annotated pictures and musings from the Tunis WSIS conference: http://pix.rafaeli.net/tunis
• Rafaeli, S. and Noy, A. (2005). Social Presence: Influence on Bidders in Internet Auctions. EM-Electronic Markets, 15(2), 158-176.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Raban, D. and Kalman, Y (2005) . Social Cognition Online, In Y. Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.), The Social Net: Understanding Human Behavior in Cyberspace. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 57 -90 (scan, text).
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. and Korner, G. (2005) UnWire Jerusalem: An Empirical Report From the Public, Free, WiFi Field, Proceedings of the Hong Kong Mobility Roundtable: Mobile Communications in the Knowledge Society, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, pp. 345-361.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. and Raban, D.R. (2005) ‘Information sharing online: a research challenge’, Int. Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL), Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2, pp.62–79. (proofs, On InderScience's site, and here)
  
  
• Noy, A. and Rafaeli, S. (2005) ‘Simulating internet auctions online: effects of learning and experience’, Int. J. Simulation & Process Modelling, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, pp.161–170.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. (2004) Constructs in the Storm, in Internet Research Annual, Volume 1, Edited by M. Consalvo, N. Baym, J. Hunsinger, K.B. Jensen, J. Logie, M. Murero, L.R. Shade, Digital Formations, Volume 19, Peter Lang Publishers. p. 55-65
  
  
• S. Rafaeli, Y. Dan-Gur and M. Barak (2005) Finding friends among recommenders: Social and "Black-Box" recommender systems", International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET), Special Issue on Knowledge Management Technologies for E-learning: Exploiting Kowledge Flows and Knowledge Networks for Learning. April-June 2005, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 30-48. ( proofs )
  
  
• Kalman, Y.M. and Rafaeli, S. (2005) Email Chronemics: Unobtrusive Profiling of Response Times, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 38. pp. Ralph H. Sprague, (Ed.), p. 108.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. (2003) Computing Ethics, talk and book chapter
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. & Raban, D.R. (2003) The Subjective Value of Information : Trading expertise vs. content, copies vs. originals in E-Business, Proceedings of the The Third International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2003), Singapore. Full paper, short version
  
  
• 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, June 2004, pp. 194-210.
  
  
• Ravid, G. and Rafaeli, S. (2004) Asynchronous discussion groups as Small World and Scale Free Networks First Monday, Volume 9, number 9 (September 2004), URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/ravid/index.html Also: Ravid, G. and Rafaeli, S. (2004) Small World and Scale Free: An Investigation of Online A-Synchronous Groups, paper presented at the January 2004 annual Moach (Mind) Conference on Computers and Education, Israel.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Ravid, G., & Soroka, V. (2004) De-lurking in virtual communities: a social communication network approach to measuring the effects of social and cultural capital, Proceedings of the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 37) Collaboration Systems and Technology Track. Copyright 2004 IEEE. Published in the Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, January 5 – 8, 2004, Big Island, Hawaii.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Barak, M., Dan-Gur, Y. and Toch, E. (2004) QSIA - A Web-based environment for learning, assessing and knowledge sharing in communities, Computers and Education Volume 43 Issue 3 pp. 273-289. Available online from ScienceDirect here: http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0360131503001210. ( * )
  
  
• Barak, M. & Rafaeli, S. (2004) Online Question-Posing and Peer-Assessment as Means for Web-based Knowledge Sharing in Learning, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Vol 61, issue 1 pp 84-103 *, (July 2004), available on ScienceDirect, here
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. & Raban D.R. (2003) Experimental Investigation of the Subjective Value of Information in Trading, Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Vol. 4:5 pp. 119-139 [available online http://jais.isworld.org/contents.asp and here ]
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. & Ravid, G. (2003) Information sharing as enabler for the virtual team: an experimental approach to assessing the role of electronic mail in disintermediation. In Information Systems Journal, Vol. 13, pp. 191-206. (proofs)
  
  
• Gordon,M., Fan,W .,
  Rafaeli,S.,Wu,H.and Farag,N .(2003) ‘The architecture of commKnowledge:combining link structure and user actions to support an online community', International Journal of Electronic Business ,Vol.1, No.1, pp.69-82. *
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Raban, D. Ravid, G. and Noy, A. (2003) Online Simulations in Management Education about Information and its Uses, in Charles Wankel and Robert Defillipi Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies Vol. 2 in: Research in Management Education and Development, Information Age Publishing, pp. 53-80 pdf, d.
  
  
• Raban, D. & Rafaeli, S. (2003) Subjective Value of Information: The Endowment Effect, E-Society Proceedings of the 2003 IADIS conference IADIS e-Society 2003    pp. 392-401   pdf, d
  
  
• Rafaeli, S., Barak, M. Dan-Gur, Y., Toch E. (2003) Knowledge Sharing and Online Assessment, E-Society Proceedings of the 2003 IADIS conference IADIS e-Society 2003   pp. 257-266   (QSIA doc)
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. & Noy, A. (2002), Online auctions, messaging, communication and social facilitation: a simulation and experimental evidence,
  European Journal of Information Systems, September 2002, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 196-207.
  Here are the abstract, and proofs, and here are some pointers to our auction research materials, Social Interaction in Online Auctions: the case of Dutch Auctions. Presented in several conferences.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. & Raban, D. (2002) "Iyanti, Ach Terem Haspikoti Liknot"       תונקל יתוקיפסה םרט ךא ,יתנייע      
  (in Hebrew)
  Status Vol. 133, July 2002, pp. 60-65.
  
  
• Schoberth, T.; Heinzl, A.; Rafaeli, S. (2004) Quantitative Heterogenit?t in Virtual Communities. To appear in: Bartmann, D. (ed.): Abschlusstagung des Forschungsverbunds Wirtschaftinformatik Bayern (forwin), Nurnberg 2004.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. & Ravid, G. (2001) Research through online simulation of team coordination, communication, and information sharing, INFORMS Section on Group Decision and Negotiation and EuroGDSS Group Decision and Negotiation 2001
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. and Raban, D. (2001) The Subjective Value of Information: An experimental comparison of willingness to purchase or sell information , working paper.
  
  
• Jones, Q., Ravid, G., and Rafaeli S. (2001) Information Overload and Virtual Public Discourse Boundaries. In: Hirose, M. (Ed.), INTERACT'01, Eighth IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Tokyo, Japan: IOS Press, 2001. http://www.iospress.nl/site/html/boek1641613081.html
  
  
• Jones, G. Ravid, G. and Rafaeli S. (2001) Empirical Evidence for Information Overload In Mass Interaction ACM digital library and CHI (Computers and Human Interaction) conference.
  
  
• Tractinsky, N., Rafaeli, S., and Pliskin, N., 1998, "Lessons from Implementation of a Web Site for the Israeli Citizens' Advice Bureau", in Hoadley E.D. and Ben-Basat I. (Editors), Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, 101-104.
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. and Ravid, G. (1997) "Online, Web-based Learning Environment for an Information System Course: Access Logs, Linearity and Performance", ISECON '97, pp. 92-99 (html) .
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. (1988) "Interactivity: From new media to communication", Sage Annual Review of Communication Research: Advancing Communication Science Vol. 16 p. 110-134, Sage: Beverly Hills, CA.
  
  
• Sudweeks, F. and Rafaeli, S. (1996). How do you get a hundred strangers to agree: Computer mediated communication and collaboration, in T. M. Harrison and T. D. Stephen (eds), Computer Networking and Scholarship in the 21st Century University, SUNY Press, pp.115-136
  
  
• Rafaeli, Sheizaf and Robert LaRose, "Electronic Bulletin Boards and 'Public Goods' Explanations of Collaborative Mass Media," Communication Research, Vol. 20 (2), April, 1993, 277-297 (here is a draft version: http://www.etext.org/CuD/Papers/bbs-media
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. and Sudweeks, F.: 1998, Interactivity on the Net, in Rafaeli, S., Sudweeks, F. and McLaughlin (eds), Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, MIT Press . (see also JCMC, Vol 2, 4 http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue4/rafaeli.sudweeks.html)
  
  
• Jones Q., & Rafaeli. S., (2000) "What Do Virtual 'Tells' Tell?: Placing cybersociety research into a hierarchy of social explanation.", In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) Jan. 2000, IEEE Press. (PDF )
  
  
• Jones Q., & Rafaeli. S., (1999) "User Population and User Contributions to Virtual Publics: A Systems Model." , In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (Group99). Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 1999, ACM Press. (PDF)
  
  
• Jones Q., & Rafaeli. S., (2000) Time to Split, Virtually: 'Discourse Architecture' and 'Community Building' Create Vibrant Virtual Publics In: Schmid, Beat F.; Lechner, Ulrike; Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina; Tan, Yao-Hua; Buchet, Brigette: EM - Communities & Platforms. EM - Electronic Markets, Vol. 10, No. 4, 10/2000 journal is here
  
  
• Ravid, G. & Rafaeli, S., (2000) Multi Player, Internet And Java-based Simulation Games:learning And Research In Implementing A Computerized Version Of The "beer-distribution Supply Chain Game", in R. Signorile and P.A. Wilsey (eds) Web-Based Modeling and Simulation WEBSIM 2000, Simulation Series Vol. 32 No. 2, p. 15-23, Simulation Councils Inc. (ISBN: 1-56555-192-3).

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• December 11, 2008       : (online)
  
  
• December 4, 2008       (online)
  
  
• October 30, 2008      (online)
  
  
• November 6, 2008
  
  
• November 13, 2008      (online)
  
  
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• YNet Press Columns by Sheizaf
• YNet: The book is dead and alive online: YNet, 11 October, 2007
• YNet: Order and Disorder, Everything is Miscellaneous YNet, 24 October, 2007
• YNet: Social Networks: Who has a longer list? YNet, November 6, 2007
• Globes "LogIn" column: Twitter and microblogging ( micro blogging ) active presence awareness "Tzif Tzif MeAl Haratzif" (14 Jun, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: about Rosenberg's "Dreaming in Code" book, the Chandler project, open source software development, Mitch Kapor, software's "Soul of a New Machine "Lahalom BeKod" (24 May, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: How is and will software be sold : As a commodity, Shrink-Wrapped, Open Source, as an Advertising Medium, or On Demand? "Mihutz Lakufsa" (26 April, 2007) Page 1,
  
  
• Globes Book Review about Benkler's "Wealth of Networks" "Oshran Shel Reshatot" Manifest shel tkufatenu (26 April, 2007) Page 1,
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Google now charging for action and behavior, not just exposure. Economics, click fraud and cultural implications. "Hitnahagut Tova" (5 April, 2007) Page 1,
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: "CoWorking", the arrangements and ideology of working outside of both workplace and home "Hamakom Harevi'i" (22 March, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Internet vs. TV, ratings, logs, modes of measurement "Gidul Pere" (15 March, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Remix, Gadgets and Widgets: An Economy of Pipes "Bochashim" (8 March, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Video sharing sites and politicians, citizen journalism at it's most potent point "Hem Lo Nechmadim" (22 February, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Robots in Minsky's New Book (Emotion Machine) and Gates in Scientific American "Eved O Adon" (8 February, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: EMail overload, Infomania, Data Smog "Gaaguim LaDavar" (1 February, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Scientists and Optimism. Edge.Org special issue "Optimiut Kosmit" (18 January, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Cartoons, light and plight: Hatzhakot U'Metzukot "Shalosh Caricaturot VeKelev" (11 January, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Steve Wozniak's Autobiography. The Engineer as anti-hero and antithesis to Time's "You" "Gibor Almoni" (4 January, 2007) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: The IPod: Steve Jobs "Hashir Shelanu" (28 December, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Adoption of Innovations? "Yoshvim al Hagader" (14 December, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Monopoly or Meager two way competition? "Zug O Peret" (7 December, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Are computers just for males? "Machshevim MiNoga, Madpasot MiMa'adim" (30 November, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Manage reputation by censoring or threatening web sites? "Monitin BeReverse" (16 November, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Usability. In honor of the World Usability Day "Shimush Choreg" (9 November, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Open Source ideology in code, knowledge and culture. Now the multinationals too. "Meida Lahamonim" (2 November, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Iran and Libya: 2 conflicting Islamic models "Liglosh El Lolita MiTeheran" (26 October, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Digital Divide, every politician's dream. Do we know enough? "HaInternet HaMahir Shel Qaddafi" (19 October, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: YouTube and Online Video: new niche and new genre "BaSeret haze Od Lo Hayinu" (12 October, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Reader and Writer, Prosumers of books. "Talkback Mountain" (28 September, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Cellular Screens: convergence or a third option? "HaCellulari neged Tochnit Hahitkansut" (14 September, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: What should / Can be done about "pump and dump" financial spam: "Shemishehu Yorid Et HaZevel" (7 September, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: The infographics of powerpoint. Is Powerpoint really evil, like Tufte claims? "Nekudat Koach LaHamonim " (31 August, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: Tufte's "Beautiful Evidence" beautiful book, charting Napoleon's retreat, Infographics, Sparklines " Nitzotzot Shel Havana " (24 August, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: search terms. What you look for is who you are. AOL's release of search data " Mi Metzitz Bahalon " (17 August, 2006) Page 1, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: about the DOPA legislation ("Deleting Online Predators Act"), when lawmakers and technology collide " Hok Ha Jungle " (10 August, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: about Telecommuting and Distance Work (triggered by the war). Holchim La'avoda, o Holchim La'avod? "Bli Lalechet, Lehargish Im" (3 August, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column: about Distance Learning (triggered by war). Kodem halach hasefer, achshav Beit HaSefer? "Hakita HaMeofefet" (27 July, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column Wiki, Talkbacks, Future: optimistic collectivism or pessimistic elitism? "Kayitz Atzbani" (20 July, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column online vs. print journalism. Slate's 10th anniversary "Betoch Niyar Iton" (13 July, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column pop culture about the internet: rap, musicals and anthems about politics, pornography and cryptography "Shir Ashir BaReshet" (6 July, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column responses to Jaron Lanier's Hive Minds critique, "Tzolelet BaKaveret" (29 June, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column Jaron Lanier's critique of Hive Minds Digital Maoism, "HaKolektiv LeAn?" (22 June, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column Online spreadsheets, (Google, Wikicalc others) , Hive Minds (moach kaveret) "Achshav Kulam Beyahad" (15 June, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column " JPOD " (Douglas Coupland , author of Microserfs), The X and XBox and Google Generation ZeitGeist(s), "HaAnashim HaHadashim" (8 June, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Cinema and Cinema Balash, The art and business models of Movies in the age of Netflix, YouTube, Google and Yahoo Video: "Sof HaSeret" (31 May, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Social Networks and Data Mining, NSA, privacy, tapping and breaking-in, "Ksharim Shel Pachad" (25 May, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about E-Readiness, international comparative digital preparedness, Israel's stance vis-a-vis rest of world "HaHetzi HaMuar" (18 May, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about confusion pricing of info services and versioning, "Tov'im BaEfsharuyot" (4 May, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about terrorism online, books and policy on the subject, bits and drama, " bitim shel pachad " (20 April, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Wireless ( WiFi ) business models, bubbles and who should pay, "Ketzef BaAvir" (6 April, 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Media obsolesence, telegraph, Amos Oz, Meir Shalev, "Yona Vana'ar", medium megaresh medium "Ga'aguai LaTelegraph" (30 March 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Joy vs. Kurzweil, technological optimism vs. pessimism rhetoric and elections, Singularity (23 March 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about folksonomies, tagging, social classification, tag clouds (16 March 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about censorship. networks and nets. filtering ("Mesanenot") (9 March 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about buzzwords and memes, replicating culture and the tribal campfire ("medurat hashevet") (2 March 2006) Page 1, Page 2, Cover, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about demand and attention distribution, "Mechashkesh Bareshet" Long Tail, power law, hitpalgut ma'arichit, zanav aroch (23 Feb. 2006) Cover page, Page 1, Page 2, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" (another) column about Games, "Mischak Machur" Synthetic Worlds, Castronova (16 Feb. 2006) Cover page, Page 1, Page 2, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Games "Everything Bad is Good" (2 Feb. 2006) Cover page, Page 1, Page 2, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about freedom of speech "Hofesh Habit" (26 Jan. 2006) Cover page, Page 1, Page 2, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Talbot's "The Internet is Broken", spam, viruses, etc. and responses (19 Jan. 2006) Cover page, Page 1, Page 2, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Prediction Markets, Idea Futures, etc. "Tavo Mahar"(12 Jan. 2006) Cover page, Page 1, Page 2, TOC
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Google's growing up (29 Dec. 2005)
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Social Capital, Israel vs. US, Loneliness (22 Dec. 2005)
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Listening vs. Reading (8 Dec. 2005)
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Hebrew and Languages online (1 Dec. 2005)
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about smart crowds (24 Nov. 2005)
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about Encyclopedias (18 Nov. 2005)
  
  
• Globes "LogIn" column about WSIS and Tunis(11 Nov. 2005)
  
  
• Globes, July 14, 2005. pdf version, pre-pub word doc
  
  
• Rafaeli, S. (14 July, 2005) " יבויחה ץירמתה לש תויביטגנה (The negative value of positive incentives)", book review in Hebrew,
  
  

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Vova Soroka	Dr. Yoram Kalman	Dr. Yuval Dan-Gur
Dr. Gad (Quentin) Jones	Dr. Miri Barak
Asmaa Ganayem	Ruth Avidar	Eyal Rabin
Michal Cohen-Gilat	Dr. Yaron Ariel	Eilat Chen Levy
Alumit Wolfowitz	Dana Freedman	Noam Zachs
Gili Korner	Dr. Eran Toch	Danny Shacham
Yael Levanon	Dorit Geifman	Alex Rosenberg
Inbar Tubi	Amit Rechavi	Lea Aharonovitch
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