CURRICULUM VITAE
PAUL FROSH
Education:
2001
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D., Dept. of Communications and Journalism
1995
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MA in Communications - Summa Cum Laude
1987
King's College, Cambridge University
BA (Hons) in English Literature.
Fellowships:
2011
Albert Bonnier Jnr. Guest Professorship, Department of Journalism, Media and
Culture, Stockholm University.
2011
Elected Fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Stone Summer Theory
Institute on Visual Culture
2011-14
Distinguished Scholar, Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
2001
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths
College, University of London.
Current Employment:
Associate Professor, Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem.
Previous Employment:
2008-12 Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Department of Communications and Journalism, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2001-8 Lecturer, Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
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Publications:
Books
1. Paul Frosh (2003) The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual
Content Industry. Berg: Oxford.
2. Tamar Liebes and Paul Frosh, eds. (2006) Meeting the Enemy In the Living Room:
Terrorism and Communication in the Contemporary Era. Kibbutz Hameuchad (in Hebrew).
3. Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski, eds. (2009, 2nd edition 2011) Media Witnessing:
Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills.
4. Paul Frosh and Anat First, eds. (2009) Democracy and Communication: Mutual
Perspectives. The Open University of Israel (in Hebrew).
5. Paul Frosh (forthcoming) The Poetics of Media: Imagination and Communication. Polity:
Cambridge.
Articles in Anthologies and Edited Volumes
6. Paul Frosh (2002) “Picturing the Digital Info-Pixel: Photographic Archives and the Visual
Content Industry” in John Frow (ed) The New Information Order and the Future of the
Archive, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh
(Conference Proceedings: ISBN 0 9532713 1 5).
7. Paul Frosh (2003) “And God Created Photoshop: Digital Technologies and the Stock
Photography Industry” in Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz and Jay Ruby (eds) Image Ethics in
the Digital Age, University of Minnesota Press: 183-216.
8. Paul Frosh (2007) “The Bias of Bias: Innis, Communication and the Problem of Space”. In
Menahem Blondheim and Rita Watson (eds) The Toronto School of Media Theory:
Interpretations, Extensions, Applications, University of Toronto Press and Magnes Hebrew
University Press: 147-169.
9. Paul Frosh (2008): “Stock Photography”, The International Encyclopedia of
Communication, Blackwell.
10. Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski (2009) “Why Media Witnessing? Why Now?” in Paul
Frosh and Amit Pinchevski, eds. Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass
Communication. Palgrave Macmillan: 1-19.
11. Paul Frosh and Anat First (2009) “Introduction” in Paul Frosh and Anat First, eds. (2009)
Democracy and Communication: Mutual Perspectives. The Open University of Israel (in
Hebrew): 1-23.
12. Paul Frosh (2011) “Television and the Imagination of Memory: Life on Mars” in Motti
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Neiger, Oren Meyers, Eyal Zandbergm, eds. On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a
New Media Age, Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills. 117-131.
13. Paul Frosh (2012) “Indifferent Looks: Visuality, Inattention and the Composition of
Strangers”, in Gillian Rose and Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, eds. Architectures of Visuality,
Ashgate: Farnham: 171-190.
14. Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski (forthcoming) “Media Witnessing and the Perpetual
Ripeness of Time” In J. Jackson Theorizing Production/Producing Theory, Routledge:
London.
15. Paul Frosh (forthcoming) “Beyond the Image Bank: Digital Commercial Photography”.
In M. Lister, ed. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, 2nd Edition, Routledge: London.
Articles in Scientific Journals
16. Paul Frosh (1998) “Filling the Sight by Force: Smoke, Photography and the Rhetoric of
Immobilization”, Textual Practice, 12(2): 323-340.
17. Paul Frosh (2001) “The Public Eye and the Citizen Voyeur: Photography as a
Performance of Power”, Social Semiotics 11(1): 43-59.
18. Paul Frosh (2001) “Inside the Image Factory: Stock Photography and Cultural
Production”, Media, Culture and Society, 23(5): 625-646.
19. Paul Frosh (2001) “To Thine Own Self Be True: The Discourse of Authenticity in Mass
Cultural Production”, Communication Review 4(4): 529-545.
20. Paul Frosh (2002) “Rhetorics of the Overlooked: On the Communicative Modes of
Advertising Images”, Journal of Consumer Culture 2(2): 171-196.
21. Paul Frosh (2003) “Industrial Ekphrasis: The Dialectic of Word and Image in Mass
Cultural Production”, Semiotica 147 (1-4): 241-264.
22. Paul Frosh (2006): “Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives
of Strangers”, Critical Studies in Media Communication 23(4): 265-284.
Also in: Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski, eds. (2009, 2nd edition 2011) Media
Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills:
49-72.
Also in: Misgerot Media, Number 2, September 2008: 107-131 (translated into
Hebrew).
23. Paul Frosh (2006) “What’s Behind the Spectacle? An Update on Stock Photography and
the Visual Content Industry”, BOL – The Journal of the Korean Arts Council 3: 233-255 (in
Korean) and 256-278 (in English).
24. Paul Frosh and Gadi Wolfsfeld (2007) “ImagiNation: News Discourse, Nationhood and
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Civil Society”, Media, Culture and Society 29(1): 105-129.
Also in: Tamar Liebes and Paul Frosh, eds. (2006) Meeting the Enemy In the Living
Room: Terrorism and Communication in the Contemporary Era. Kibbutz Hameuchad: 110144 (translated into Hebrew).
25. Paul Frosh (2007) “Penetrating Markets, Fortifying Fences: Advertising, Consumption
and Violent National Conflict”, Public Culture 19(3): 461-482.
26. Gadi Wolfsfeld, Paul Frosh and Maurice T. Awabdy (2008) “Covering Death in
Conflicts: Coverage of the Second Intifada on Israeli and Palestinian Television”, Journal of
Peace Research 45(3): 401-417.
27. Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski (2009) “Crisis-Readiness and Media Witnessing”, The
Communication Review, 12(3): 295-304.
28. Paul Frosh (2009) “The Face of Television”, Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 625: 87-102.
29. Paul Frosh (2011) “Framing Pictures, Picturing Frames: Visual Metaphors in Political
Communications Research”, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 35(2): 91-114.
30. Paul Frosh (2011) “Phatic Morality: Television and Proper Distance”. International
Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(4): 383-400.
Book Reviews
31. Paul Frosh (2008) Review of A Violent World: TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror
and War by Nitzan Ben-Shaul', Political Communication, 25(2): 224-226.
Research Grants:
2011-14 “Distracting Images, Digital Displays: Rethinking the Aesthetics of Photographic
Viewing”. The Hebrew University, Rothberg International School Grant For
Distinguished Scholar. $ 10,000 per year for 3 years.
2006-9. “Israeli Television News Coverage of Suicide Bombings 2001-4: National Crisis and
the Representation of Civil Society.” Israel Science Foundation. Grant No. 1069/06. Sole
Researcher. $18,000 over two years.
2006-7 “Media Witnessing” (with Amit Pinchveski). Grant for book development from
Research and Development Authority, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. $2000.
2005-6. “National Crisis and the Representation of Civil Society: Israeli Television News
Coverage of Suicide Bombings 2001-4”. The Levi Eshkol Institute for Social, Economic
and Political Research in Israel. $2000.
2002-5. “Advertising Practices, Commercial Epistemologies and the Construction of the
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Israeli Consumer: 'Creative' Industries as Expert Systems in a Risk Society”. Israel Science
Foundation, Grant No. 35.2-956/02. Sole researcher. $76,000 over three years.
2002-4. “Conceptions of the Consumer in the Professional Discourses of the Israeli
Advertising Industry”. Smart Family Foundation for Communication Research. $2000.
Activities in Professional Associations and Higher Academic Authorities:
2010-12 Chair, Popular Communication Division, the International Communication
Association
2010-12 Member of Board of Directors, the International Communication Association
2008-10 Vice-Chair, Popular Communication Division, the International Communication
Association
2009 Member of Israel Science Foundation Research Grant Award Committee
for Communications
2009-11 Member of Israeli Higher Education Council Evaluation Committee
for BA in Communications at Nazareth Academic College
2006-7 Elected Member, Israel Academy of Sciences Young Scholars Forum.
Editorial Positions:
2008 – Member of the Editorial Board of Photographies (Taylor and Francis).
2006 - Member of the Editorial Board of Popular Communication (Taylor and Francis), the
journal of the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication
Association.
Organization of Conferences, Symposia and Panels:
Popular Communication Division Program of the International Communication Association
Conference, Boston, May 22-26 2011.
Placing the Aesthetic in Popular Culture: Quality, Value, and Beauty in Communication and
Scholarship. Co-organizer of pre-conference, International Communication Association,
Boston, May 21 2011
Popular Communication Division Program of the International Communication Association
Conference, Singapore, June 21-26 2010.
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“Witnessing: Cultural Roots, Media Forms and Cultural Memory”. Co-organizer of
international symposium sponsored by the German Research Council, Villa Vigoni,
Menaggio, Italy, April 27-30 2008.
“Affect in Public Life: Mediating Conflict and Terrorism”. Panel co-organizer and co-chair.
Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 2007.
“Communication Research and Teaching: Traditions and Crises”. Conference chair and
organizer, The Smart Family Communication Foundation, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, December 2006.
“Bearing Media Witness: Testimony and Mass Communication”. Panel organizer and Chair.
Conference of the International Communication Association, Dresden, June 2006.
“Icons, Ideologies and Institutions: Visual Cultures and Religion in the US and Israel”. Joint
organizer of an international symposium, Center for the Study of the United States,
University of Haifa, June 8-9 2005.
“Icons, Ideologies and Institutions: Visual Culture and Religion”. Panel organizer and Chair.
Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2004.
“The Documentary: Vision and Memory”. Conference held at the Jerusalem Cinemateque in
honour of Professor Alan Rosenthal, May 2004.
Presentations and Conference Papers:
a. Selected Invited and Keynote Lectures
(* = invited presentation; ** = keynote address or invited public lecture)
1. * “The Image Factory: Money, Technology and the Stock Photography Industry”. Invited
presentation to the Centre for Communication and Information Studies, University of
Westminster, London UK, February 2001.
2. * “The Body and Its Representations”. Invited presentation at the Centre for Cultural
Studies, Goldsmiths College, London UK, February 2001.
3. * “Witnessing, Media and Imaginative World-Making”. Presentation at the Institute of
Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 2005.
4. * “Television as a Social-Psychological Experiment”. Invited presentation at the Television
and Reality conference, Netanya College, March 2007.
5. * “Three Faces of Television: Physiognomic Speculations on an Old Medium”. Invited
presentation to the Department of Communications, Carelton University, Ottawa, November
2007.
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6. * “Television Studies After Television”. Invited presentation at the Television Research
Forum of the Israel Communication Association, Tel Aviv University, June 22 2008.
7. ** “The Image – A Commodity?” Keynote Lecture, international workshop on Image and
Economy, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, September 9-10 2008.
8. ** “Indifferent Looks: Visuality, Inattention and the Composition of Strangers”. Keynote
Plenary Lecture, international conference on Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory,
Method and Practice, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, 9th-11th July 2009.
9. * “Media Witnessing and the Perpetual Ripeness of Time” (with Amit Pinchevski). Invited
lecture, Sodertorn University, Stockholm, January 2011.
10. ** “The Sameness of Seeing”. Albert Bonnier Jnr. Guest Professorship Public Keynote
Lecture, Department of Journalism, Media and Culture, Stockholm University, November,
2011.
11. * “The Poetics of Carnage”. Invited Guest Lecture. Department of Journalism, Media and
Communication, Stockholm University, November 2011.
12. * “Media and the Response to Others”. Invited two-part faculty seminar presentation,
Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, Stockholm University, OctoberNovember 2011.
13. * “Media of, for and by the people? Thoughts on Representation, Scale and Noise”.
International symposium “Is Democracy Sick of Its Own Media?” Maison des Sciences de
l’Homme et de la Sociéte, Sofia University, Bulgaria, December 2011.
14. * “Terrorism, Television and Civil Society”. Symposium on “Violence/Media/Politics:
Narrating, Witnessing and Acting on the Suffering of Others”, London School of Economics,
June 2012.
b) Conference Presentations
14. “Public Eye/Private Eye: Photography, Domesticity and Celebrity”. Crossroads in
Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, June 1998.
15. “The Camera on the Doorstep: Photography Between the Public and Private Spheres”,
International Communication Association, Haifa University pre-conference, Israel, July
1998.
16. “And God Created Photoshop: Digital Technology and the Stock Photography Industry”.
Conference on Image Ethics in the Digital Age, The Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA, March 2000.
17. “Performing Banality: Visual Ordinariness in Consumer Culture”. Visual Rhetoric 2001,
University of Indiana, Bloomington USA, September 2001.
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18. “Picturing the Digital Info-Pixel: Photographic Archives and the Visual Content
Industry”. The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive. Institute for Advanced
Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, March 2002.
19. “Space-Time, Image-Text: On the Instability of Media in the Information Economy”. 9th
Biennial Conference of the Israel Association for Canadian Studies, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, July 2002.
20. “What Makes an Image? Cultural Authority, Commercial Dynamics and the ‘Becoming’
of a Visual Product”. Cultural Returns: Assessing the Place of Culture in Social Thought.
Oxford, UK, September 2002.
21. “Mastering the Digital Image: New Technologies, Professional Performance, Magical
Instruments”. Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, September
2002.
22. “Backwards Up Niagara Falls: Space/Time, Image/Text and the Biases of Information”.
Conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2003.
23. “Liveness and the War Against Images”. Panel presentation at the conference Iconic
Worlds – More Than What We See. Ben Gurion University, Be’ersheva, May 2004.
24. “The Production of Meaning and the Meaning of Production in the Cultural Industries”.
Conference on The Meaning of Meaning, University of Haifa, December 2004.
25. “ImagiNation: News Discourse, Nationhood and Civil Society”. Conference of the
International Communication Association, New York, May 2005.
26. “Penetrating Markets, Fortifying Fences: Consumption and Risk on the Edge”.
Conference of the International Communication Association, New York, May 2005.
27. “Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media and the Imagined Lives of Strangers”.
Conference of the Israel Communication Association, Jerusalem, April 2006.
28. “Terrorism, Television News and the Construction of Nationhood”. Conference on Peace
Journalism, Jerusalem, June 2006.
29. “Mass Media Witnessing and the Morality of Weak Social Ties”. Media Change and
Social Theory. Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Oxford University, September
2006.
30. “The Face of Television”. Paper presented at an international workshop on The End of
Television? Its Impact on the World (So Far). The Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania, February 2007.
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31. “Through a Glass Darkly: Meditations on Television as a Transitional Object”.
Presentation at the conference of the Israel Communication Association, Raanana (Open
University), April 2007.
32. “The Morality of Mediation: A Response to Nick Couldry”. Symposium on Media, Culture,
Ethics: Towards a New Research Paradigm?, Jerusalem, May 2007.
33. “The Dispassion of Media: Television, Violence and Everyday Emotions”. Paper
presented at the International Communication Association Conference San Francisco, May
2007.
34. “What’s Behind the Spectacle?” Presentation at the International Communication
Association Conference San Francisco, May 2007.
35. “Framing Pictures, Picturing Frames: Visual Tropes in Political Communications Research”.
Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference San Francisco,
May 2007.
36. “Witnessing and World-making in the Age of Mass Media”. Paper presented at
Eyewitness Narratives, The Center for Literary Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
November 2007.
37. “Morality and Indifference in Photography and Television”. Paper presented at
conference Between Reality and Fiction: Documentary and Ethics in Cinema and Television.
The Jerusalem Centre for Ethics, Mishkenot Shaahanim, March 2008.
38. “Television, Proper Distance and the Face of Humanity”. Paper presented at the
International Communication Association Conference, Montreal, May 2008.
39. “Media Witnessing and Shared Humanity” (with Amit Pinchevski). Presentation at
Media, Communication and Humanity conference, London School of Economics and
Political Science, September 2008.
40. “In Decisive Moments: Contemporary Media and the Performance of Crisis”. Paper
presented at an international seminar on Media, Government and Public Opinion, Mishkenot
Shaananim, January 2009.
41. “How Does It Feel? Mediation and Imagination”. Paper presented at the International
Communication Association Conference, Chicago, May 2009.
42. “Witnessing, Risk and the Media Assemblage” (with Amit Pinchevski). Paper presented
at Expertise: Media Specificity and Interdisciplinarity. Tel Aviv University, June 2009.
43. “Life on Mars: Television and the Imagination of Memory”. Paper presented at On Media
Memory: An International Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation. July 2009.
44. “Media and the Imagination of Memory”. Paper presented at Landmarks 2:
Communication and Memory, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London December
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2009.
45. “Phatic Communion and Digital Media”. Panel presentation at Israel Communication
Association Annual Conference, April 2010.
46. “Being with the Media”. Paper presented at the International Communication Association
Conference, Singapore, June 2010.
47. “Anxiety and resilience: terrorism, television and civil society”. Paper presented at
Global Media and the War on Terror, University of Westminster , London, September 2010.
48. “The Aesthetics of Inattention: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges” Paper
presented at ICA pre-conference Placing the Aesthetic in Popular Culture, Boston, May
2012.
49. “Television, Memory and Imagination”. Paper presented at the International
Communication Association Conference, Boston, May 2011.
50. “Carnage and resilience: Israeli television coverage of Palestinian suicide bombings”.
Paper presented at the conference Political Communication in Israel and in the International
Arena, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 2012.
51. “Inattention as a Virtue: Phatic Morality”. Paper presented at the conference Fiction 2:
Virtuous Television? Tel Aviv University, February 2012.
52. “Mediated Suffering in a Culture of Distraction: Phatic Morality”. Paper presented at the
international workshop “Conflict at Moral Concern: Media, Psychology, Rationality and
Emotion”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 2012.
Article Reviews for Journals
Ageing and Society
Body and Society
Communication Review
Critical Studies in Media Communication
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Journal of Consumer Culture
New Media and Society
Misgerot Media
Popular Communication
Book Manuscript Reviews for Publishers
Duke University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Polity Press
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