Sheizaf Rafaeli

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Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli (שיזף רפאלי), Israel (B.A., Haifa University, M.A. Ohio State University, M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University) is Director of the Center for the Study of the Information Society InfoSoc and a Professor at the School of Management (Graduate School of Business Administration) Haifa GSB, University of Haifa Israel. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as head of the Information Systems area at the GSB in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was selected to head the School of Management at the University of Haifa, starting October, 2006.

[edit] Interests

Computer-mediated communication (CMC)
Interactivity
E commerce and E-Business
Distance learning and online teaching
The subjective Value of information
Information markets and incentives to participate in online activities
Information sharing
Virtual communities

[edit] Publishing Venues

Behavior and Information Technology
Communication Research
Computers and the Social Sciences
Computers and Human Behaviour (CHB)
Journal of Communication
Information and Software Technology
Information Systems Research (ISR)
Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
the International Journal of Electronic Business
the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
Computers and Education
the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling (IJSPM)
the Journal of Broadcasting.

Sheizaf writes a weekly column for the Globes financial and business newspaper.

He is also active in practicing what he preaches: He has been involved in building internet-based activities such as online higher-education, journalism, political, governmental, social and economic virtual organizations and efforts. He authored software and books on graphics, electronic spreadsheets and statistical analysis, and a textbook on information systems for the Open University. He is co-editor, along with Fay Sudweeks and Margaret McLaughlin, of Network and NetPlay: Virtual Groups on the Internet published by MIT Press, 1998. He served as co-coordinator of the international ProjectH. He served as founder and co-editor of The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication JCMC , and is proud of initiating and setting up the SHIL (Citizen's Advice Board) online service. He is currently a member of several editorial boards, including those of JCMC, ITSharenet and IJKL. Prof. Rafaeli is a long time member of the Stockholm International Challenge Jury for Information Systems' Projects. Sheizaf has served in visiting research and teaching positions at Ohio State University, Michigan State University, IBM, Stanford University, Technion, Israeli College of Management, and the University of Michigan. Over the past twenty five years he has taught courses on computers as media, and the social implications of new communication technologies, as well as numerous Information Systems' courses

As of October 2006, he serves as the chair of the School of Management (Business Administration), at the University of Haifa.