Lecturers Page Dr. Shirley Druker Shitrit

Dr. Shirley Druker Shitrit

ד"ר שירלי דרוקר שטרית משמשת כמנהלת פרויקטים מיוחדים ברשות המחקר במכללה האקדמית ספיר. כמו כן, היא יועצת אקדמית וחלק מצוות הפיתוח של תכנית "צעיר בספיר". מלמדת קורסי כתיבה וכן קורסים רבים בתחום הרטוריקה (דיבייט, יסודות השכנוע, מבוא לרטוריקה ועוד). מחקריה מתמקדים בתיווך תקשורתי באמצעות פלטפורמת גוגל מפות, בייצוג מרחבים פריפריאליים, במיעוטים בתקשורת, בשימושים של צעיריםבמדיה חדשים ובאלימות כנגד צעירות

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.

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • minorities and media
  • Google maps
  • media and communication studies
  • violence against women
  • representations of peripheral spaces
  • Social resilience

Teaching

Hebrew lective year: תשפו

Research

M.A.                                       2012 – 2014

                                                Ben Gurion University of the Negev

                                                Humanities and Social Sciences

                                                Department of Communication

                                                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

Awards

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)

Publications

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

 

Presentations

Links to

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