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.
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2020
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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 |
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2013
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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’ |
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2010
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem BA (hons) in Hebrew Literature and Communication and Journalism |
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2022-present
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The Open University The Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication Lecturer |
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2021-2022
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Oxford University Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Visiting Scholar Host: Prof. Deborah Cameron |
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2020-2021
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Haifa University The Department of Communication MINDSS post-doctoral fellow Hosts: Dr. Roei Davidson & Dr. Eran Tamir |
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2021
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Finalist for top student paper award Popular Communication division, The International Communication Association (ICA) |
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2019
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Top student paper award Israeli Communication Association Conference |
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2019
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Top paper award Israeli Communication Association Conference |
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2017
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Top student paper award Popular Communication division, The International Communication Association (ICA) |
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2015
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Top student paper award LGBTQ division, The International Communication Association (ICA) |
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2014
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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.