Sheizaf Rafaeli

Academic Publications:

• Rafaeli, S. (2011) Multitasking, Odyssea Issue 10, January 2011, p. 64-73 (scanned)
• Kalman, Y.M. and Rafaeli, S. (2011) Online Pauses and Silence: Chronemic Expectancy Violations in Written Computer-Mediated Communication, Communication Research, 38(1) 54–69
• Geifman, D., Raban, R.D. and Rafaeli, S. (2011) P–MART: Towards a classification of online prediction markets, First Monday, Volume 16, Number 7 - 4 July 2011
• Rafaeli, S. (2010), Management Studies and Business Degrees, Status Issue 232, pp. 20-26
• Rafaeli, S. and Segev, L. (2010) Hinuch dot Com: Mischakim Retziniyim (Serious Games), Hed Hahinuch December 2010, pp. 90-93
• Rafaeli S. (2010) Book Review of Tal Samuel-Azran and Dan Caspi's New media and Innovative Technologies, Edited by Tal Samuel-Azran & Dan Caspi, Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University Press.
• Avidar, R., & Rafaeli, S. (2010). Computer mediated charity: Israeli nonprofit use of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 online dialogic elements. The Journal of Global Management Research ( http://www.gmrjournal.com/documents/GMRJ-V5N2-DEC2009-61-70.pdf)
• 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

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• 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. Link
• 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).

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• 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), 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. *

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• 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"             (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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