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Dr. Noam Gal, Lecturer

Noam Gal
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The Open University of Israel Department of Sociology, Political Science 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107, Israel
Office:09-7782710 Email:noamgal@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • Boundary work
  • Membership Categorization Analysis
  • Ironic humor
  • Internet memes
  • Queer theory

Noam Gal is a lecturer in the department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication. Her research focuses on discursive practices of collective identity consolidation and boundary work, in particular on social media. Her studies on Internet memes and on online ironic humor were granted several awards and published in leading academic journals. Her current research deals with the role of lapses in communication in the formation of social boundaries. 

2020
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD in Communication and Journalism
Ironic humor and collective identity in digital participatory spheres
Supervisors: Prof. Limor Shifman & Prof. Zohar Kampf
2013
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MA in Communication and Journalism - magna cum laude
Internet memes and the construction of collective identity: The case of ‘It Gets Better’
2010
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
BA (hons) in Hebrew Literature and Communication and Journalism
2022-present
The Open University
The Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication
Lecturer
2021-2022
Oxford University
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Visiting Scholar
Host: Prof. Deborah Cameron
2020-2021
Haifa University
The Department of Communication
MINDSS post-doctoral fellow
Hosts: Dr. Roei Davidson & Dr. Eran Tamir
2021
Finalist for top student paper award
Popular Communication division, The International Communication
Association (ICA)
2019
Top student paper award
Israeli Communication Association Conference
2019
Top paper award
Israeli Communication Association Conference
2017
Top student paper award
Popular Communication division, The International Communication
Association (ICA)
2015
Top student paper award
LGBTQ division, The International Communication Association (ICA)
2014
Top three paper award
(with Limor Shifman & Zohar Kampf)
Popular Communication division, The International Communication
Association (ICA)

PhD dissertation - 
Ironic humor and collective identity in digital participatory spheres
Supervisors: Prof. Limor Shifman & Prof. Zohar Kampf

MA thesis - Internet memes and the construction of collective identity: The case of ‘It Gets Better’

Gal, N., Kampf, Z., & Shifman, L. (Forthcoming) SRSLY?? A typology of online ironic markers.
Information, Communication & Society.

Gal, N. (2019). Ironic humor on social media as participatory boundary work. New Media &
Society, 21(3), 729-749.

John, N. A. & Gal, N. (2018). ‘He’s got his own sea’: Political Facebook unfriending in the
personal public sphere. International Journal of Communication, 12, 2971-2988.

Gal, N., Shifman, L. & Kampf, Z. (2016). 'It Gets Better': Internet memes and the construction of
collective identity. New Media & Society, 18(8), 1698-1714.

Gal, N. (2011). The use of interpersonal and internal discussion tools in narratives of lesbian
sexual identity formation. Mifgash, 33, 167-192. (Hebrew)

Gal, N. (2018). Internet memes. In: B. Warf (Ed.), SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet. Thousand
Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. pp. 528-530.