Dr. Yuval Gozansky, Chair of the Communications Department at Sapir Academic College, Israel. He is a Senior Lecturer of cultural studies in the field of children and youth media. He heads the Research Center of Media for Children and Youth. Between 2021-2024 he was the editor of Misgerot Media (Media Frames), the academic Hebrew-language journal of the Israel Communication Association (IsCA). He published articles in leading academic journals, and in 2019 a book in Hebrew about the cultural history of Israeli children’s television: "From Dodley to digital: 50 years of Israeli children’s television". In 2023 he published the book: Histories of Children’s Television Around the World. Prior to his academic career, he was a director of numerous children’s television programs.
Children's media
Culture studies
Production research
2020 Best paper by the Israeli Communication Association
2019 The Reference book Award, Israeli Center for Libraries, with the support of the Ministry of Culture & Sport.
2018 Research grant from Dov Lautman Forum for Education Policy, for research about the journalistic coverage of Nation-State Law and its implications on education for democracy and partnership in Israel.
2017-2018 Children’s Television Worldwide: Gender Representation II.
2017 Grant for a research project about non-fiction television programs for children about puberty from all over the world. Prix Jeunesse festival in Munich, Germany.
2015 - 2020 Council for Higher Education (Israel) Grant for students and academia involvement with the community project: "Children's news", 130,000 NIS.
2015 - 2016 Participation in an international research project of children watching TV, in collaboration with Prix Jeunesse International.
Gozansky, Y., & Jonas Aharoni, G. (2025). “Youth Trauma TV” in Israeli Euphoria: Overcoming Social Limitations and Generic Conventions. European Journal of Cultural Studies. Online First, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251323588
Gozansky, Y. (2023). The change in the concept of childhood in children's television in Israel: A cultural history of broadcasting to children (1966-present). Childhood: Study and Research of children's Culture, 5, 7-21. [In Hebrew] https://www.gordon.ac.il/Uploads/media/Files/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%201%20%D7%99%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9C%20%D7%92%D7%95%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99.pdf
Nuriely, B., Gigi, M., & Gozansky, Y. (2022). Young adults know that their issues are not represented in the news: Israeli young adults and mainstream news media. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society. 20(1), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-02-2021-0026
Gozansky, Y. (2021). Children’s knowledge, fears and coping during Covid-19 crisis. In O. Korat & D. Givon (Eds.) Corona days: Toddlers in times of crisis (pp. 19-37). Reches Academic. [In Hebrew]
Gigi, M., Gozansky, Y., & Gutman, E. (2021). One law, many narratives: The framing of the discussions about the Nation-State law in written newspapers in Hebrew and Arabic. Kesher, 57, 131-154 [In Hebrew]
Gozansky, Y. (2021). How a hands-on workshop offered by communication undergraduates in Israel enhanced fifth graders’ news literacy skills. Journal of Media Literacy Education. 1-11.
Gozansky, Y., & Abu-Kishk, H. (2020). Jewish and Arab children in Israel in times of COVID-19 – challenges, knowledge, and media. Kesher, 55, 97-118. [In Hebrew] https://dacenter.tau.ac.il/sites/abraham.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/daniel%20abraham/kesher/55/6_Guzansky.pdf
Gozansky, Y., & Lavie, N. (2021). Israeli TV creators’ social justifications. Popular Communication. 19(4), 295-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868043
Gozansky, Y., & Jonas Aharoni, G. (2020). Transmedia storytelling on Israeli children's drama. In M. Talmon & Y. Levy (Eds.), Israeli Television: Global contexts, local visions. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Gozansky, Y. & Lemish, D. (2019). Still “about boys and girls”: What has changed a decade later in gender representation in television programming for children in Israel? Migdar [Gender], 6, [In Hebrew]. https://www.migdarjournal.com/blank-6
Gozansky, Y. (2019). “Growing up” on The Children’s Channel: Coping with taboo on sexuality on children’s television in Israel. Media Frames, 18, . [In Hebrew].
Gozansky, Y. (2018). Fifty years of drama on Israeli children’s television: From teaching to competing. Israel Studies Review, 33(2), 123–147.
Gozansky, Y. (2018). Showing puberty: Overcoming the taboo in children’s television. Sex Education, 18(5), 555-570.
Gozansky, Y. (2017). From pupils to consumers: The transformation of the concept of childhood in Israeli children’s television, Journal of Children and Media, 11(1), 36-52.
Gozansky, Y. (2016). Can children’s television encourage children’s creativity? Israeli TV producers’ discourse. In T. Brown & A. M. Castellanos (Eds.), Chiselled horizons: A multi-cultural approach to visual literacy (pp. 105-113). Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Scientific Books (Refereed)
Gozansky, Y., (Ed.) (2023). Histories of Children's Television Around the World. Peter Lang Publishing.
Gozansky, Y. (2019). From Dodley to Digital: 50 years of Israeli Children's Television. Ra'anana: Open University Press, 290 pages. [In Hebrew].
Other Scientific Publications
Götz, M., & Gozansky, Y. (2018). Children´s television worldwide II: Gender representation in Israel. International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), retrieved from http://childrens-tv-worldwide.com/pdfs/Israel.pdf
Götz, M., Hofmann, O., Mendel, C., Lemish, D., Scherr, S., Gozansky, Y., Huang, K., Prommer, E., Russo-Johnson, C., Sanabria, E., & Whitaker L. (2018). Whose story is being told? Results of an analysis of children’s TV in 8 counties. Televizion, 31(E), 61-65.
Gozansky, Y. (2011). Childhood and change: Children’s television perspective. In E. Ginsburg (Ed), What is cultural change? (pp. 90-95) [Hebrew]. Hof Ashkelon, Israel: Sapir Academic College.
2025 The Israel Communication Association (IsCA) 27th Annual Conference. Chair of session: Individual aspects in communications.
2025 Critical Edtech: The 2nd Conference of Critical Research about Education and Technology. Paper title: Fostering Responsible AI Use in Communication: An Integrated Approach to Digital Literacy Education.
2024 74th Annual International Communication Association (ICA): Communication and Global Human Rights. Paper title: Is a series about youth a series for youth? Euphoria as a case study.
2024 The Israel Communication Association (IsCA) 26th Annual Conference. Paper title: "If you have a child, don't limit him, teach him": Current Media repertoire of Israeli children aged 9-13.
2023 Reaching Young Audiences conference. Paper title: Time for Multi-Platform Telestudies: Histories of Children’s Television Around the World.
2023 IAMCR 2023 conference: International Association for Media and Communication Research. Paper title: Inhabiting Children’s Television Around the Planet: Seven Decades of Transformations.
2023 The 25th annual conference of The Israeli Association for the Research of the History of Education. Paper title: "Kol-Haam" for Children: A Journal for Communist's Kids.
2023 The Israel Communication Association (IsCA) 25th Annual Conference. Paper title: A Series about Youth has to be a Series for Youth? Euphoria as a Case Study.
2023 The 9th Conference of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies. Paper title: Proximity and Distance in Research of Television Content Creators in Israel: Euphoria as a Test Case.
2022 The Israel Communication Association (IsCA) 24th Annual Conference. Paper title: Transmedial Narratives on Israeli Children's TV: Veteran Media in a Digital Age.
2022 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA): One World, One Network‽ Paper title: From Instructional to Digital: Israeli Children’s Television.
2021 Childhood Bookcase: 35 years to the publishing of Ofek Lexicon for Children's Literature, Beit Berl College. From Dodley to Digital: 50 years of Israeli Children's Television.
2021 Television Histories in Development, An international conference hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Paper title: From Educating to Selling: The Field of Israeli Children's TV.
2021 71st Annual International Communication Association (ICA). Paper title: Living in different parts of multi-cultural country in the crisis: Results from Israel.
2021 The 37th Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference. Paper title: "Nation-State Law in Israeli journalism: back to “partisan press”?
2019 The Children’s Media Symposium II, Creativity Re-booted: Platforms and Possibilities for Storytelling. University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Paper title: "Flashback: Transmedia Storytelling on Children's TV in Israel". Presented with Dr. Gabriela Jonas Aharoni.
2019 69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C., USA. Paper title: “TV Creators’ Social Justification: Self-Perceptions of Israeli TV Creators for Adults and Children". Presented with Dr. Noa Lavie.
2019 The ISCA 23rd Annual Conference, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel. Paper title: “Nation-State Law in Israeli journalism in Hebrew and Arabic: Back to “partisan press”?”. Presented with Dr. Moti Gigi.
2019 Fiction 9: Television & Politics. The 9th Conference in Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University. Paper title: “Between liberalism and conservatism on children’s television in Israel: “Grown-ups as a test case”.
2018 The ISCA 22nd Annual Conference, College of Management Rishon LeZion, Israel. Paper title: “The ‘Growing-Up’ on The Children’s Channel (TCC): Coping with Taboo on Children’s Television in Israel”.
2018 Fiction 8: Technology & Television. The 8th Conference in Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University. Paper title: “’What happened to BFF???’ Media culture of children in the digital age – Multiple screens and fictional interactivity”.
2017 Children’s Global Media Summit, Manchester, UK. Paper title: ‘Showing puberty: overcoming the taboo in children’s television’.
2017 The ISCA 21st Annual Conference, Sapir Academic College (Israel). Paper title: ‘The Transformation of the Concept of Periphery Children in the Field Israeli Television for kids’.
2016 Fiction 6: Inside and outside the box. The 6th Conference in Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University. Paper title: ‘Daily Drama and the New Media’.
2015 The Story of Children’s Television – An International Conference at University of Warwick, UK. Paper title: ‘Israeli Daily Drama as the Answer of Children's Television to New Media’.
2015 Creative Engagements Thinking With Children, 10th Global Conference, Inter-Disciplinary.Net in Lisbon, Portugal. Paper title: ‘Can Children’s Television Encourage Children’s Creativity? Israeli TV Producers Discourse’.
2014 Children in the Big City. The 5th Conference of the Program in Research of Child and Youth Culture at Tel Aviv University. Paper title: ‘City Children and the Media’.
2014 Is Israeli Children's TV avoiding the Reality of life? A one day Conference in the Audio & Visual Arts Department, Sapir College. Paper title: ‘The Representation of Reality in the Israeli TV for children: From Local to Global Issues and Trends’. Presented with Dr. Gabriela Jonas Aharoni.
2014 Fiction 4: The End of Television? The 4th Conference on Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University. Paper title: ‘Educational Television – The End (or just a Change?)’.
2013 25th IAMHIST Conference: Childhood and the Media, the International Association for Media and History, University of Leicester (UK). Paper title: ‘The Transformation of the Concept of Childhood in the Israeli Television for Children: Creativity as a Test Case’
2012 IAMCR2012 Conference: International Association for Media and Communication Research, Popular Culture Working Group, Durban, South Africa. Paper title: ‘The Transformation of the Concept of Childhood in the Israeli Television for Children: From Local to Global Issues and Trends’.
2012 Fiction 2: Television at its best? The 2nd Conference of Television Studies, Tel-Aviv University. Paper title: ‘Children's Television in Israeli: a Change in the Concept of Childhood’.
2010 The 26th Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Canada. Paper title: ‘The Transformation of the Concept of Childhood in the Israeli Television for Children’.
2010 The 4th researcher’s meeting, Sapir Culture Studies Forum. Paper title: Childhood and Change in Childhood: The Children’s Television Perspective.
2009 The 3rd Workshop for Visual Culture Research, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. Paper title: ‘Metaphoric Art-Direction in the Children TV Show “Ken Lazipor’.