Anat Ben-David is an associate professor of communication at the OUI. With a keen focus on the convergence of science and technology studies (STS) and new media, her research delves into the intricate interplay between digital platforms, politics, and the construction of knowledge. In particular, her research hones in on the multifaceted dynamics of web archives and other mechanisms that shape the web's past(s).
Ben-David's research interests include new media and digital culture; archival practices and web preservation; social media, politics, and public memory; socio-cultural implications of emerging technologies; digital and computational methods; and privacy and digital surveillance. Her current research, Nature vs Climate: Instagram as a Site of Contestation for Sustainability, is supported by the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research.
Selected Publications:
Dark Cycles: Social Engineering and Political Chatbots in Netanyahu’s 2019 Election Campaigns. With Elinor Carmi. International Journal of Communication, Vol 19, 2025.
The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies. Edited with Susan Aasman and Niels Brügger. Routledge Press, 2025.
How social memory works on social media: A methodological framework. Memory, Mind & Media. Vol. 3. Cambridge UP, 2024.
https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad010/7126962 Neiger, M., Meyers, O., & Ben-David, A. (2023). Tweeting the Holocaust: Social Media Discourse between Reverence, Exploitation, and Simulacra.
Journal of Communication, jqad010.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2180403Ratner, Y., Dvir Gvirsman, S., & Ben-David, A. (2023). “Saving Journalism from Facebook's Death Grip"? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences.
Digital Journalism.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120922069 Ben-David, A. (2020). Counter-archiving Facebook.
European Journal of Communication, 35(3), 249–264.