| Sheizaf Rafaeli | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 7, 1955 |
| Occupation | Professor, Researcher, Author, Journalist, Columnist, CMC expert |
| Spouse | Anat Rafaeli |
| Website | |
| rafaeli.net | |
Sheizaf Rafaeli (Hebrew: שיזף רפאלי), is an Israeli researcher, scholar of Computer-mediated communication, computer scientist, and newspaper columnist. He is Professor and Dean at the School of Management (Graduate School of Business Administration) Haifa GSB, University of Haifa Israel and additionally Director of the Sagy Center for Internet Research (Formerly known as the Center for the Study of the Information Society) and the Games for Managers Project. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as head of the Information Systems area at the Graduate School of Business in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Born in Kibbutz Maagan Michael, Israel, June 7, 1955. Served as officer in the Israeli military in combat units, discharged in 1977. He received his B.A. from the University of Haifa, M.A. from Ohio State University, M.A., and Ph.D., Stanford University. Was educational director of the cadet school of the Reali High School in Haifa. Rafaeli has written software and books on graphics, electronic spreadsheets and statistical analysis, and a textbook on information systems for the Open University. He is co-editor, (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, and initiated the SHIL (Citizen's Advice Board) online service. He is a member of several journal editorial boards, including those of JCMC, ITSharenet and IJKL. Rafaeli is a director of NPTech Israel, and of StartUpSeeds.
Sheizaf is a member of the Stockholm International Challenge Jury for Information Systems' Projects. Sheizaf has held 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. His work on Interactivity and Virtual Community, published by MIT Press, JCMC, and Oxford University Press is widely cited in the Information, Computer-Mediated Communication, Internet and Communication Research literatures.
As of October 2006, he serves as the chair of the School of Management (Business Administration), at the University of Haifa.
He also writes weekly columns for the Calcalist and Globes financial and business daily newspapers in Israel and the YNet news site.