Yoav Reuven Halperin

Yoav Halperin teaches courses on media audiences, globalization, digital media, and cultural studies at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication; and on critical thinking and writing at the Stern School of Business. His research and published work focus on the politics of socail media platforms, and combines mining of social media archives with ethnographic fieldwork to study interactions between social media users from different political-ideological circles, digitally-mediated polarization, and online social movements. PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU; M.A. in Philosophy, and B.A. in Philosophy and History from Tel Aviv University.