Selected publications:

Ribak, R. (2025). Teens' "right to be let alone": Privacy under datafication. Journal of Children and Media, 19/1.

Levi-Eshkol, K. and Ribak, R. (2024). “Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files. New Media and Society.

Baum, I. and Ribak, R. (2024). Accumulative cartography: A visual semiotic analysis of online mobile maps. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 29/4.

Ringel, S. and Ribak, R. (2024). Platformizing the past: The social media logic of archival digitization. Social Media + Society, 10/1.

Ribak, R. and Leshnick, A. (2022). “A powerful, spiritual, win-win situation”: Commercial authenticity in professional birth photography. Media, Culture and Society, 44/5, 951-966. 

Nezer Dagan, H. and Ribak, R. (2021). “Amazing opportunity”: Reflecting on online communication in Israeli schools during the pandemic. Journal of Children and Media, 15/1, 101-104. 

Ringel, S. and Ribak, R. (2020). ‘Place a book and walk away’: Archival digitization as a socio-technical practice. Information, Communication and Society, 24/15, 2293-2306.

Ribak, R. (2019). Translating privacy: Developer cultures in the global world of practice. Information, Communication and Society, 22/6, 838-853.

Davidson, S. and Ribak, R. (2018) The adult-child coach in television commercials. Journal of Consumer Culture, 21/3, 559-575.

Lazar, T., Ribak, R. and Davidson, R. (2018). Mobile social media as platforms in workers' unionization. Information, Communication and Society, 23/3, 437-453.

Davidson, S. and Ribak, R. (2017). The adult-child persona in Israeli television commercials. Media Frames, 16, 41-60.  

Davidson, S. and Ribak, R. (2017). “Yes, I'm worth it”: The economy of girls' photo-rating in social network sites. Communication, Culture and Critique, 10/1, 2-19.

Ribak, R. and Rosenthal, M. (2015). Smartphone resistance as media ambivalence. First Monday. 20/11.

Ribak, R. (2009). Remote control, umbilical cord, and beyond: The mobile phone as a transitional object. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27/1, 183-196.

Hijazi-Omari, H. and Ribak, R. (2009). “I hugged my mobile each night and waited”: The mobile phone in the lives of Palestinian teenage girls in Israel.  Megamot, 46/1-2, 197-221. 

Hijazi-Omari, H. and Ribak, R. (2008). Playing with fire: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel. Information, Communication and Society, 11/2, 149-166.

Ribak, R. (2007). Children & new media: Some reflections on the ampersand. Journal of Children and Media, 1/1, 68-76.

Ribak, R. (2007). “Privacy is a basic American value”: Globalization and the construction of web privacy in Israel. The Communication Review, 10/1, 1-27.

Ribak, R. and Rosenthal, M. (2006). From the field phone to the mobile phone: A cultural biography of the telephone in Kibbutz Y. New Media and Society, 8/4, 551-572.

Tsfati, Y., Ribak, R. and Cohen, J. (2005). Rebelde Way in Israel: Parental perceptions of television influence and monitoring of children's social and media activities. Mass Communication and Society, 8/1, 3-22.

Ribak, R. and Turow, J. (2003). Internet power and social context: A globalization approach to web privacy concerns. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 47/3, 328-349.

Ribak, R. (2001). “Like immigrants”: Negotiating power in the face of the home computer. New Media and Society, 3/2, 220-238.

Ribak, R. (1997). Socialization as and through conversation: Political discourse in Israeli families. Comparative Education Review, 41/1, 71-96.

Liebes, T. and Ribak, R. (1994). In defense of negotiated readings: How moderates on each side of the conflict interpret intifada news. Journal of Communication, 44, 108-124. 

Liebes, T. and Ribak, R. (1993). Socialization to Conflict: How Jewish and Arab adolescents in Israel negotiate their political identity. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 5, 362-368.

Liebes, T. and Ribak, R. (1992). The contribution of family culture to political participation, political outlook, and its reproduction. Communication Research, 19, 618-641.

Liebes, T. and Ribak, R. (1991). A mother's battle against TV news: A case study of political socialization. Discourse and Society, 2, 203-222.

Liebes, T. and Ribak, R. (1991). Democracy at risk: The reflection of political alienation in attitudes towards the media. Communication Theory, 1, 239-252.

Liebes, T., Katz, E. and Ribak, R. (1991). Ideological reproduction. Political Behavior, 13, 235-252.