Academic Background

2019- Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of Haifa

2017- 2019 Research Fellow, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

Project title: Reviving the morgue: Practices of archiving digital news

2017-2019 Visiting Scholar, School of Journalism, Columbia University

2016-2017 Lecturer, Department of Communication, Sapir Academic College

2012-2017 Ph.D., Department of Communication, University of Haifa

Ph.D. Dissertation: Digital technologies and future memory: Archival digitization at the National Library of Israel

(Advisors : Dr. Rivka Ribak and Prof. Na'ama Sheffi)

2007-2011 M.A,, Department of History, Tel Aviv University

M.A. Thesis: The German woman's body in the official Nazi women's magazine: NS FrauenWarte

(Advisor: Prof. Shulamit Volkov)

2003-2007 B.A., School of Communication, Sapir Academic College

Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals and Book Chapters

Ringel, S., & Ribak, R. (2015). Practicing Digitization at the National Library of Israel. New Review of Information Networking, 20(1–2), 236–240.

Mandelzis, L., Bernstein, A., & Ringel, S. (2017). Critical reading of talkbacks discourse as separatist integration: On the Israeli 2004 Football Cup victory. Israel Affairs, 23(5), 934–950.

Ringel, S. (2018). Representations of the German woman’s body in the official Nazi women’s magazine. Feminist Media Studies, 20(2), 238–255.

Ringel, S. (2018). Building an archive for future generations: The digitization of archives at the National Library of Israel. In N. Maurantonio & D., W. Park (Eds.). Communication Memory & History. New York: Peter Lang Press, 195-208.

Woodall, A., & Ringel, S. (2019). Blockchain archival discourse: Trust and the imaginaries of digital preservation. New Media & Society. 22(12), 2200–2217. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819888756

Ringel, S., & Ribak, R. (2020). ‘Place a book and walk away’: Archival digitization as a socio-technical practice. Information, Communication & Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1766534

Ringel, S., & Davidson, R. (2020). Proactive ephemerality: How journalists use automated and manual tweet deletion to minimize risk and its consequences for social media as a public archive. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820972389

Ringel, S. (2020). Interfacing with the past: Archival digitization and the construction of a digital depository. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520972997

Ringel, S. (2021). Digitizing the paper of record: Archiving digital newspapers at the New York Times. Journalism, 14648849211023848: https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211023849

Other Publications

Ringel, S. (November 28, 2017). The future of past news: Archiving online news. Medium: Tow Center for digital Journalism. [Link]

Ringel, S., & Woodall A.M. (May 17, 2018). Digital journalism’s disappearing public record, and what to do about it. Columbia Journalism Review. [Link]

Ringel, S. (May 18, 2018). The future of our past: Digital archives and the democratization of Knowledge. Public Seminar. [Link]

Hill, N., Ringel S., & Woodall A.M. (2018). Public record under threat: News and the archive in the age of digital distribution. Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Brown Institution for Media Innovation. New York: Columbia University. [Link]

Ringel, S., & Woodall A.M. (March 28, 2019). Last year’s headlines are in danger of disappearing forever. Columbia Journalism Review. [Link]

Ringel, S., & Woodall A.M. (2019). A public record at risk: The dire state of news archiving in the digital age. Tow Center for Digital Journalism. New York: Columbia University. [Link]

Ringel, S. (April 3, 2019). It’s not going to be there forever. The Seventh Eye. [Link]

Ringel, S. & Davidson, R. (October 24, 2019). When journalists delete tweets, they may be erasing the first draft of history. Columbia Journalism Review. [Link]

Selected Presentations

Ringel, S., & Ribak, R. (2018). Ethnography of scanning: Archival digitization at the National Library of Israel. Paper presented at the 19^ST annual conference of Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Montréal, 10-13 October 2018.

Ringel, S. (2018). The mediated archive: Accessing archival records through online platforms. Paper presented at the research workshop “Regulation and algorithmic culture: Challenges and future prospects”, Copenhagen, 3-5 September, 2018.

Ringel, S., & Woodall A.M. (2018). Knowledge production in the age of digital archives: The role of human-machine communication. Paper presented at a PreConference “Communicating with machines: Theory and practice” of the 68^th annual International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 May 2017.

Ringel, S., & Ribak, R. (2017). The Digitization Network: Digitizing archival materials at the National Library of Israel. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Tartu, 19-21 October 2017.

Ringel, S., & Ribak, R. (2017). “Walk Away”: The Poetics of Robots in Archival Digitization. Paper presented at the preconference “Communicating with Machines: Interventions with Digital Agents” of the International Communication Association, San Diego, 25 May 2017.

Ringel, S. (2017). Digitizing Heritage: Building an Archive for Future Generations the National Library of Israel. Paper presented at the second Tel Aviv Communication Conference "The Future of Old Media", Tel Aviv, 19-20 April 2017.

Ringel, S. (2017). Building an Archive for Future Generations: The Digitization of Archives at the National Library of Israel. Paper presented at a research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, Jerusalem, 14-16 March 2017.

Ringel, S., & Marciano, A. (2016). Technological Standard and the Politics of Representation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Berlin, 5-8 October 2016.

Ringel, S. (2015). Archival Digitization as an Ambivalent Practice. Paper presented at the "Exploring Media Ambivalence" workshop, The Center for Media, Religion and Culture, University of Colorado, Boulder, 17 November 2015.

Ringel, S. & Ribak, R. (2015). Practicing Digitization at the National Library of Israel. Paper presented at the 1^st annual conference "Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities", Dublin, 25-26 June, 2015.

Ringel, S. (2014). Building an Archive for Future Generations: The Digitization of the National Library of Israel. Paper presented at the preconference "Making Sense of Memory & History" of the International Communication Association, Seattle, 22 May 2014.

Ringel, S. (2014). Building an Archive for Future Generations: The Digitization of the National Library of Israel. Doctoral colloquium, iSchool, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 4-7 March 2014.

Courses Taught

Digital Memories: The Future of the Past

On Documentation, Memorialization and Protest in Social Media

History of Communications

Introduction to Digital Media

Introduction to Communication and Culture

Digital Communication Theories

Introduction to Western Culture

Communication as Culture

Introduction to Academic Writing