Dr. Shirley Druker Shוtrit serves as Director of Special Projects at the Research Authority of Sapir Academic College. She also serves as an academic advisor and is part of the development team for the "Young at Sapir" program. She teaches writing courses as well as numerous courses in the field of rhetoric (debate, foundations of persuasion, introduction to rhetoric, and others). Her research focuses on media-mediated communication through the Google Maps platform, representations of peripheral spaces, minorities in media, youth uses of new media, and violence against young women.
M.A. 2012 – 2014
Ben
Gurion University of the Negev
Humanities
and Social Sciences
Specialty: Representation
of minorities
Title of Thesis: Internet Uses and Identity Formation among Bedouin Students from the Negev
Supervisors: Prof. Nelly Elias and Prof. Amit Schejter
Ph.D. 2019
– 2024
Bar
Ilan University
Humanities
and Social Sciences
School
of Communication
Title of
Thesis: The Mediation of Southern
Peripheries in Israel: Analysis of Prosumer Generated Content on Google Maps
Supervisor: Prof. Chaim Noy
2009 – 2010 Excellence Scholarship for High Academic Achievement
2011 Graduation B.A. with Honors (summa
cum laude)
2012 – 2020 Excellence in Academic Teaching (in each of this years) –
Sapir academic college
2020 – 2021 Excellence Scholarship for High Academic
Achievement –
(Ph.D.) – Bar Ilan University
2021 – 2022 Excellence Scholarship for High Academic
Achievement –
(Ph.D.) – Bar Ilan University
2021 – 2022 Research
Scholarship: Argov
center for the study of Israel and
the
Jewish people
2021 – 2022 Research
Scholarship: Maccabim center for outstanding Ph.D students
2022 – 2023 President of the
University and the Dean of the School of Advanced Studies Award (First time)
2022 – 2023 President of the
University and the Dean of the School of Advanced Studies Award (Second time)
2023 – 2024 President of the
University and the Dean of the School of Advanced Studies Award (Third time)
2023 – 2024 Prize for an
outstanding article on behalf of the Association for Youth Studies (together
with Dr. Ella Ben-Atar and Prof. Samdar Ben Asher)
2024 Research
Scholarship: Argov center for the study of Israel and the Jewish people
2024 Award
from the Association for the Study of Youth for an outstanding article
(together with Dr. Ella Ben-Atar and Professor Smadar Ben-Asher)
Druker Shitrit, S. (2016). Hybrid Identity – The Bedouin Minority and the Internet". Lexi-cay
(6): 8-18. [Hebrew]
Druker
Shitrit, S., Ben-Atar, E. & Ben-Asher, S.
(2022). Offensive TikTok videos against Bedouin female students as a
backlash mechanism of social penalty. Media Frames, 22, 44-66. [Hebrew]
Ben-Atar, E., Ben-Asher, S. & Druker Shitrit, S. (2022).
Social punishment by the
distribution of aggressive TikTok videos against women in a traditional
society.
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 21(1),
129-142.
DOI:10.1108/JICES-06-2022-0059
Druker Shitrit,
S. & Noy, C. (2023). "Come support the locals!":
Mediating peripheral spaces on Google Maps via User Generated Content. Convergence:
The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 30(6),
2233-2250. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231200827
Druker
Shitrit, S. & Noy, C. (2023). “United we
stand”: Prosumer-generated content and social resilience on Google Maps. Media
Frames. Online [Hebrew]. https://mediaframes.sapir.ac.il/google-maps/
Druker
Shitrit, S. (2023). "Prosumer": the "consumer"
as a "producer" on the Internet with a focus on the education system.
Lexi-cay. Online [Hebrew] https://kaye.ac.il/magazine/%d7%9c%d7%a7%d7%a1%d7%99-%d7%a7%d7%99%d7%99-%d7%92%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%9e%d7%a1-20/?fbook=active#fb0=21
Druker Shitrit, S., Ben-Asher, S. & Ben-Atar, E. (2024)."The ‘Modesty Guard’
Reflected in
Online Comments
in Mainstream News Sites". Journal of Information, Communication &
Ethics in Society, 22(1), 145-158. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251362218
Ben-Atar, A., Druker Shitrit, S. &
Ben-Asher, S. (2025). When Honor Turns Deadly:
Instagram Reactions to Family Femicide in Arab Society.
Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251362218
Druker Shitrit, S. (2026). Mediating the
“other,” Google Maps version: a critical discourse analysis of online reviews. Journal of Information,
Communication and Ethics in Society.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-06-2025-0140
Others
Druker
Shitrit, S. (March 28, 2017). Periphery and
minority groups. Wasim Khoury shows, Network B Radio station (Hebrew).
Druker
Shitrit, S. (October 28, 2018). Mizrahi Lecturer
Women in Gate to Academia Program. IDF Army Radio Station (Hebrew).
Druker Shitrit,
S. (October 19, 2019). Periphery VS. Center. Eran Zinger Show,
Network B Radio station (Hebrew).
Ben-Atar,
E., Druker Shitrit, S. & Ben-Asher, S. (2022). Gender-based violence
expressed in abusive TikTok videos
directed against female Bedouin students. IRCEELT-2022. Conference Book A4-IRCELT-2022-Proceedings-Book__final.pdf
(ibsu.edu.ge)
Druker Shitrit, S., Ben-Atar, E. &
Ben-Asher, S. (2022). Online Bullying on TikTok towards Arab Bedouin students. EIRD-2022. Conference Book. EIRD-BOOK-Tbilisi- 2022.pdf
https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazine/2025-02-14/ty-article-magazine/.premium/00000194-f964-d3a7-a1fc-f96eabab0000