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Overview

Tamir Sheafer is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has an active research profile primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly output also spans several subfields including communication, artificial intelligence, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, and gender studies.

Their research explores various topics that intersect media, politics, and society. Key topics include:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Topic Modeling
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Sheafer's recent published papers cover a diverse set of issues, notably with an emphasis on news media use during crises, social media effects, and perceptions of misinformation. Some examples of their recent work are:

  • Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries (2021, Digital Journalism)
  • Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries (2021, New Media & Society)
  • Navigating High-Choice European Political Information Environments: a Comparative Analysis of News User Profiles and Political Knowledge (2021, The International Journal of Press/Politics)
  • Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion (2022, Political Studies)
  • Perceived prevalence of misinformation fuels worries about COVID-19: a cross-country, multi-method investigation (2022, Information Communication & Society)

Sheafer frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Shaul R. Shenhav
  • David Nicolas Hopmann
  • Alon Zoizner
  • Peter Van Aelst
  • Václav Štětka

The venues where Sheafer has published most often include arXiv (Cornell University) with four publications, Political Communication with three, Communication Methods and Measures and European Political Science Review each with two publications, and Digital Journalism with one publication. This distribution indicates a strong engagement with both peer-reviewed journals and open-access preprint platforms.

Best Publications

  • Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

    Peter van Aelst;Jesper Strömbäck;Toril Aalberg;Frank Esser

  • Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First

    Gadi Wolfsfeld;Elad Segev;Tamir Sheafer

  • The Personalization(s) of Politics: Israel, 1949–2003

    Gideon Rahat;Tamir Sheafer

  • The personalization of mediated political communication: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings

    Peter Van Aelst;Tamir Sheafer;James Stanyer

  • How to Evaluate It: The Role of Story‐Evaluative Tone in Agenda Setting and Priming

    Tamir Sheafer

  • Two routes to personalized politics: Centralized and decentralized personalization

    Meital Balmas;Gideon Rahat;Tamir Sheafer;Shaul R Shenhav

  • The Influence of Presumed Media Influence in Politics Do Politicians’ Perceptions of Media Power Matter?

    Jonathan Cohen;Yariv Tsfati;Tamir Sheafer

  • Mediated Public Diplomacy: A Strategic Contest over International Agenda Building and Frame Building

    Tamir Sheafer;Itay Gabay

  • Candidate Image in Election Campaigns: Attribute Agenda Setting, Affective Priming, and Voting Intentions

    Meital Balmas;Tamir Sheafer

  • Agenda Building, Agenda Setting, Priming, Individual Voting Intentions, and the Aggregate Results: An Analysis of Four Israeli Elections

    Tamir Sheafer;Gabriel Weimann

  • Competing Actors and the Construction of Political News: The Contest Over Waves in Israel

    Gadi Wolfsfeld;Tamir Sheafer

  • Nonrepresentative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians

    Lior Sheffer;Peter John Loewen;Stuart Soroka;Stefaan Walgrave

  • Political Information Opportunities in Europe A Longitudinal and Comparative Study of Thirteen Television Systems

    Frank Esser;Claes H. de Vreese;Jesper Strömbäck;Peter van Aelst

  • Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries

    Peter Van Aelst;Fanni Toth;Laia Castro;Laia Castro;Václav Štětka

  • Charismatic Skill and Media Legitimacy An Actor-Centered Approach to Understanding the Political Communication Competition

    Tamir Sheafer

  • Functional Theory and Political Discourse: Televised Debates in Israel and the United States

    William L. Benoit;Tamir Sheafer

  • Leaders First, Countries After: Mediated Political Personalization in the International Arena

    Meital Balmas;Tamir Sheafer

  • Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries:

    Yannis Theocharis;Ana Cardenal;Soyeon Jin;Toril Aalberg

  • Relative Political and Value Proximity in Mediated Public Diplomacy: The Effect of State-Level Homophily on International Frame Building

    Tamir Sheafer;Shaul R. Shenhav;Janet Takens;Wouter van Atteveldt

  • The spoiler effect: Framing attitudes and expectations toward peace

    Tamir Sheafer;Shira Dvir-Gvirsman

  • Mediated Public Diplomacy in a New Era of Warfare

    Tamir Sheafer;Shaul R. Shenhav

Frequent Co-Authors

Gadi Wolfsfeld
Gadi Wolfsfeld Reichman University
Peter Van Aelst
Peter Van Aelst University of Antwerp
Jesper Strömbäck
Jesper Strömbäck University of Gothenburg
Toril Aalberg
Toril Aalberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Frank Esser
Frank Esser University of Zurich
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Claes H. de Vreese
Claes H. de Vreese University of Amsterdam
Jörg Matthes
Jörg Matthes University of Vienna
Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Gabriel Weimann
Gabriel Weimann University of Haifa

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