Amit Kama

Max Stern Yezreel Valley College | YVC · Department of Communication

This study identifies how three prominent Israeli online newspapers frame gay Members of Knesset (Israeli parliament) and cabinet ministers. 2019 was chosen since the number of gay MKs reached a historic milestone of representation. The study employed a mixed-methods design, combining descriptive statistics, based on a quantitative content analysis...

מחקרים על הומוסקסואליוּת/לסביוּת/ביסקסואליוּת/טרנסג'נדריוּת בישראל עורך: ד"ר עמית קמה הרשימה הביבליוגרפית דלהלן נועדה לשם כינון גוף ידע מסודר ושיטתי בכל הנוגע לעבודה המדעית על הומואים, לסביות, ביסקסואלים ו/או טרנסג'נדרים ומיעוטים מיניים אחרים בישראל. הגיעה העת ליצור שיח הדדי, שבו ניתן להיעזר בעבודותיהן/ם של עמיתינו. הדבר נכון הן עבור תלמידות/ים ו...

Very little is known about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) in the kibbutz, a 113-year-old intentional communal movement. 182,000 people live today in 268 kibbutzim. Most of the research to date in Israel has focused on LGBT living in cities, especially in Tel Aviv. It is possible that the lack of knowledge about LGBT in kibbutzim is...

It perhaps goes without saying that LGBT tourists encounter a plethora of biases based on either forthright or implicit homophobia or sheer ignorance. As a tourism scholar and a gay man who has travelled extensively, I wish to disclose and unravel some of these conundrums – chief among them is the ever-present question: Why is your sexual orientati...

On May 30, 1994, a group of some hundred Jewish gay men and lesbians from around the world gathered at Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center) in Jerusalem, seeking to hold a ceremony to commemorate LGBT murdered by the Nazis. The response to the ceremony was extremely intense: A violent demonstration was held against it while it took p...

ב-30 במאי 1994 הגיעה ל'יד ושם' קבוצה שביקשה לערוך טקס ב'אוהל יזכור'. לכאורה, הסיפור נדוש ושגרתי, אך למעשה האירוע אינו מזכיר טקסים דומים בשל שתי סיבות: הראשונה, זהות המשתתפים, הומוסקסואלים ולסביות יהודים מישראל ומחוצה לה, אשר הגיעו על מנת להזכיר ולזכור הומוסקסואלים ולסביות יהודים ושאינם יהודים שנרצחו על ידי הנאצים. הסיבה השנייה לייחודו של טקס היתה ה...

The LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning) community is warmly embraced by the city of Tel Aviv. This phenomenon is exemplified by the fact that the Tel Aviv City Hall has been taking a leading part in the organization, financing, and promotion of Pride parades and events in recent years. The present article analyzes a quanti...

This meta-analysis constitutes an attempt at mapping LGBT research in Israel with respect to its evolution and distribution of various attributes. Due to the relatively small size of Israel, it is possible to aggregate the entire catalogue of academic studies carried out within this field. The corpus includes all scholarly works (n=586) published a...

This study investigates the links between a destination's gay-friendliness and the travel preferences of tourists with different levels of affiliation with the LGBT community. Overseas tourists to Tel Aviv (Israel) participated in two surveys: during LGBT Pride events (n = 168) and two months later (n = 117). Due to a terror attack, the before-and-...

הרהורים מדכאים על דיכוי הפריפריה בתקשורת הישראלית

הקמת קבוצת מחקר חדשנית וייחודית.

"It won't go straight": Curly-haired women tell their stories by Shani Okavi-Partush, Amit Kama, and Sigal Barak-Brandes looks at the 'curly experience' of Israeli women. It focuses on curly hair in Israeli culture and society as a subjective experience and as an inter-subjective experience. The study shows social discipline towards curly women, es...

Feminist scholarship has looked extensively at the perception of the body as a flexible construction of cultural and social dictates, but head hair has been often overlooked. Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair brings new focus to this underrepresented topic through its intersections with contemporary socio-cultural contexts. Scholars from...

הרצאה קצרה על חוויותיי ועל הומופוביה בעולם האקדמי.

http://digitalcommons.library.tru.ca/cts-proceedings/vol2017/iss1/80

Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism, and Media Cultures is a collection of essays that delves into the social, political, and cultural circumstances of contemporary Chinese lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and individuals. The collection sheds light on endeavors of a budding and fragile community to pave a...

The complex relations between words and images are debated in various disciplines and have been in a variety of modes a thorny issue for centuries. Words are constantly used to represent or embody images (conceptualized as ekphrasis) and vice versa. At the same time, however, words are also considered not sufficient to represent the visual sign, wh...

This collection of essays, Boys’ Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken, delves into the social, psychological, and cultural mechanisms that bolster traditional masculine gender roles among boys and adolescents within school physical education environments, particularly gyms, sport arenas, and—especially pertinent to gay boys—the locker rooms. The contribut...

Despite recent burgeoning interest in the body as a culturally constructed project, little research attention is paid to bodily excretions (sweat, urine, faeces, menstrual blood, saliva, mucus, skin oil) and their social implications. The present study addresses this lacuna. Since advertising for hygiene products reflects prevailing ideas regarding...

This article focuses on the ways media texts produced in Israel constitute a vital part in the lives and identities of Jewish Israeli migrants in the United States. In this qualitative study, Israelis residing in the United States were interviewed about their media consumption patterns and their perceptions about the Israeli media's impact on their...

For those acquainted with Japanese lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues, Queer Voices from Japan can be good reading. But with only 1 of its 22 chapters informative for researchers, those interested in LGBT youth studies will only indirectly gain insight into a non-Western perspective on youth and sexuality.

Audience research in Israel Communication research in Israel, including audience research, emerged during nation-building processes beginning about half a century ago, as a result of both the development of high education and new media organizations – especially Israeli radio and television. Since that time, audience research had grown and undergon...

This study delves into the motivations, symbolic rewards, and experiences of Filipinos involved in the creation of a magazine catering to the Filipino migrant workers’ community in Israel. Although practices of resistance are the prevailing framework within research about diasporic media, this paper offers another perspective of the construction of...

is a media anthropologist and teaches at the Communication Department at the Academic College of Emek Yezreel. He is author of numerous articles and books and has been active in various lesbigay organizations since 1982. Guy Shilo (shiloguy@post.ac.il) is a PhD student in the school of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are...

This study explores the linkages among 45 Israeli gay men's social circumstances and their intra- and interpersonal communication patterns and media use. The study focused on these gay men's life stories. One of the most striking themes uncovered in these autobiographies was the common thread of ontological duality: the dichotomous split between “n...

Thirty Israeli disabled people were asked to describe their most memorable interactions with mass mediated images of disability as part of a tentative endeavor to delve into their reception patterns. Two stereotypes are discussed in this paper, namely the supercrip and the pitiful disabled. The interviewees seek examples to corroborate their belief...

Forty-five Israeli gay men unfolded their life stories in order to delve into their media reception patterns. Overall, they prefer to disengage themselves from a discourse that symbolically annihilates them or negatively constructs their representations. Absence from the mediated reality as well as social invisibility are perceived to reduce ontolo...

This article charts the winding and tumultuous course Israeli gay men have taken in their struggles to claim a visible and audible place within the Israeli public sphere. Whereas for the greater part of history, Jewish gay men were symbolically annihilated by various social institutions, for the past decade they have been active as agents of social...

This article charts the winding and tumultuous course Israeli gay men have taken in their struggles to claim a visible and audible place within the Israeli public sphere. Whereas for the greater part of history, Jewish gay men were symbolically annihilated by various social institutions, for the past decade they have been active as agents of social...

Notwithstanding the accumulation of knowledge derived from textual analyses (Cf. Creekmur and Doty, 1995; Gross and Woods, 1999), there s eems to be a lack of reception studies in the context of gay audiences. Larry Gross (1994) underscores the vital need to keep track of gay representations, yet researchers must endeavor to analyze gay consumers'...