Amit M Schejter

Amit M. Schejter is associate professor of Communication Studies at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev and associate professor of Communications and codirector of the Institute for Information Policy at Pennsylvania State University. His research, teaching, and service integrate a comprehensive approach to communication policy and its application to the everyday challenges created by the unequal distribution of resources and the silencing of the public's voice. His studies have been widely...See more

Amit M. Schejter is associate professor of Communication Studies at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev and associate professor of Communications and codirector of the Institute for Information Policy at Pennsylvania State University. His research, teaching, and service integrate a comprehensive approach to communication policy and its application to the everyday challenges created by the unequal distribution of resources and the silencing of the public's voice. His studies have been widely published in both communication and law journals, cited in congressional and Knesset hearings, and have dealt with the challenges raised by the introduction of radio, television, cable, the Internet, mobile phones, and digitization in Israel, the United States, Korea, the European Union, and across wide international comparative settings. His background includes a decade of holding senior executive positions in the telecommunications industry in Israel, among them general counsel for Israeli public broadcasting and vice president of Israel's largest mobile operator. In addition, he served on and chaired a variety of public committees, counseled media and telecommunication entities in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and was Mundus Scholar at the universities of Amsterdam and Hamburg. His books include The Wonder Phone in the Land of Miracles: Mobile Telephony in Israel (coauthored with Akiba Cohen and Dafna Lemish, 2008), Muting Israeli Democracy: How Media and Cultural Policies Undermine Freedom of Expression (2009), and . . . And Communications for All: A Policy Agenda for a New Administration (2009). See less