Edan Ring: Research and Advocacy on Media, Technology and Social Change
I am VP of community and social affairs at the Israeli Internet Association (ISOC-IL) and a teaching associate on media, communications and social change at Ben Gurion university in the Negev. Previously i was co-director of Sikkuy-Aufoq’s Department for a Shared Society and established the "Media Equality Index" project, promoting fair representation of Arab citizens and Arab society in mainstream Hebrew media and media diversity. I was also director of Sikkuy’s Public Affairs Department and served as it's spokesman during my tenure as deputy director of social and political clients at UNIK, a media consultancy firm based in Tel Aviv. Prior to that I was a news editor and writer for the Haaretz newspaper and website.
Since 2018 I teach at the communications department of the Ben Gurion University in the Negev and between 2014-2019 I was a lecturer at Reichman University's school of communications and marketing lab.
Previously, I was an news editor and writer for Haaretz and wrote for various cultural magazines. I also served as a media strategy and public relations advisor for civil society organizations, philanthropic foundations, academic institutions and political organizations, and supported various public protests, struggles and campaigns.
I wrote my MA thesis at the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Bar-Ilan University, focusing on digital activism and social media studies. I hold a BA in History and Computer Science and an MA in Latin American History, both from Tel Aviv University, and I live in Herzeliya with my partner Ardith, and our two children, Neomi and Yair.
Selected Publications:
Research and Policy Papers
"Disinformation and Fact-Checking Efforts during the Israel–Iran War", (Israel Internet Association, 2025) - (Hebrew) (English)
"Towards Countering Misinformation and Disinformation in Israel - Stakeholder Analysis", (Israel Internet Association, 2025) - (English)
“Drowning in the Flood: Social Media Platforms’ Failure to Manage Harmful and Pro-Terror Content During Israel-Hamas War”, (Israel Internet Association, 2023) - (Hebrew) (English)
“Disinformation and AI in Iron Swords War 2023” – A Briefing for the Knesset Science and Technology Committee, (Israel Internet Association, 2023) - (Hebrew) (English)
“Hijacking and Blocking of Business User Profiles on Meta Platforms”, (Israel Internet Association, 2022) - (Hebrew) (English)
"AI SLOP: The New Social Media Pollution", (The 7the Eye, 2025) - (English)
"What aren’t they telling us about the war in Gaza", (The 7the Eye, 2025) - (English)
"Linguistic Accessibility of Museums for the Arab Society in Israel", (Sikkuy-Aufoq, 2020) (Hebrew)
“The Price of Exclusion: Arab Citizens in Hebrew Media in the October 2015 Escalation”, (Sikkuy-Aufoq, 2016) (Hebrew)
“The Arab citizens deserve some room at the tribal fire”, (IDI Parliament Journal, 2017) - (Hebrew)
“Can the COVID-19 Crisis Become a Turning Point Toward a Shared Society in Israel?”, (Heinrich Boll Stiftung) (English)
Selected Media Articles and Interviews
London Review of Books:
On Pegasus (Vol. 43, No. 21, 4/11/21) - PDF Version
Haaretz.com
Fake News, Real Missiles: Israel's Telegram Crisis Is a National Security Threat (6/7/25)
How did Telegram, Twitter and Tiktok have become Lethal Tools of Hamas Warfare (25/12/23)
The Militarization of the Coronavirus Crisis, as Seen on Israeli TV (12/4/20)
Coronavirus Conspiracies: In an Israel on Edge, Panic-mongering Incitement Can Kill (19/3/20)
The Terrible Danger Stalking Israel – and Why Israelis Can't Fight It (2/10/19)
Why Are Israelis So Afraid of Arabic? (5/1/18)
No Monuments Will Be Toppled Here, Israelis Need to Start Talking About Systemic Racism (18/1/20)
Diego Maradona: The Last Preacher of Poor Man’s Soccer (3/12/20)
Jerusalem Post
Israeli Government declarations about media diversity are a deception (24/7/17)
A new and important experience for the Israeli prime-time spectator (26/7/16)
Study: Arabs underrepresented in Hebrew media
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/study-arabs-underrepresented-in-hebrew-media-447596
Nieman Reports: Getting Beyond Stereotypes on Israeli TV News (by Naomi Darom, 6/7/16)
Indian Express: Meme row and other reasons why Israeli PM’s son is always in the news (Neha Banka, 7/2020)
Al-Monitor (Nurit Canetti): Why are so few Arabs interviewed on Israeli TV? (August 2016)
The 7th Eye - Cyber-Spying is the New "Israeli Pride" (21/6/17)
972 magazine - The Israeli media’s outsized influence on Jewish-Arab relations (16/11/15)
Heinrich Boll - Can the COVID-19 Crisis Become a Turning Point Toward a Shared Society in Israel?
Webinar: Invisible Citizens? The Exclusion of Palestinian Arab Israelis from Israel’s Mainstream Media
More than one in five Israeli citizens is a member of the Palestinian Arab minority. But you certainly wouldn’t know that if you turned on a news or current affairs program on Israel’s mainstream media. Israel’s Palestinian Arab citizens, and Palestinian Arab society generally, have historically been underrepresented on mainstream TV and radio in Israel – as journalists, as commentators, as studio guests, and as topics for news coverage. Current trends in politics and economy are starting to change this picture, but is it only a temporary phase?
These topics were discussed on Wednesday, 18 August by Eman Kassem, a radio journalist, and Edan Ring of Sikkuy, who leads that NGO’s campaign to promote the representation of Arab citizens and Arab society in Israel’s media in a special webinar moderated by Dr. Anwar Mhajne of Stonehill College.
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