Publications
BOOKS:
Segev, E. (2022). Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences. New York: Routledge. (read a book review in Hebrew by S. Shenhav)
Segev, E. (2016). International News Online: Global Views with Local Perspectives. New York, Peter Lang. (read a book review by J. Miller)
Segev, E. (2010). Google and the Digital Divide: The Bias of Online Knowledge, Elsevier (Oxford: Chandos Publishing Imprint). doi:10.1533/9781780631783 (read the book reviews by C. Gilbert, J. Wallis, and L. Kvasny)
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Segev, E. (2021). International News Flow in the Digital Age. In Daniela V. Dimitrova (Ed.), Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. (preprint version)
Baram-Tsabari, A., Segev, E., & Sharon A. J. (2016). What’s New? The Applications of Data Mining and Big Data in the Social Sciences. In N. G. Fielding, R. M. Lee, & G. Blank (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of online research methods (pp. 92-106, 2nd ed., ch. 6). London: Sage. DOI: 10.4135/9781473957992.n6 (preprint version)
Yarchi, M., Wolfsfeld, G., Samuel-Azran, T., & Segev, E. (2016). Invest, Engage, and Win: Online Campaigns and their Outcomes in Israeli Elections. In M. A. Brown (Ed.), Social Media Performance Evaluation and Success Measurements (pp. 225-248). Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global. (preprint version)
Manor, I., & Segev, E. (2015). America’s Selfie: How the US Portrays Itself on its Social Media Accounts. In C. Bjola, & M. Kornprobst (Eds.), Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (pp. 89–108). London: Routledge. (preprint version)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:
Manor, I. & Segev, E. (2023). Follow to be followed: The centrality of MFAs in Twitter networks. Policy & Internet. doi:10.1002/poi3.368
Segev, E. (2023). Sharing feelings and user engagement on Twitter: It’s all about me and you. Social Media & Society. doi:10.1177/20563051231183430
Hatzir. N. A., Segev, E. (2022). Intergenerational communication: The meaning of communication channels and their affordances. Family Communication, 23(1), 41–51. doi:10.1080/15267431.2022.2126476
Watanabe, K., Segev, E., & Tago, A. (2022). Discursive Diversion: Manipulation of Nuclear Threats by the Conservative Leaders in Japan and Israel. International Communication Gazette, 84(7-8), 721–748. doi:10.1177/17480485221097967
Tago, A., Watanabe, K., & Segev, E. (2022). Can a Leader Divert People’s Eyes from its Political Scandal? Cross-national Experiments of Diversionary Action in Israel and Japan. International Interactions, 48(5), 1056–1069. doi:10.1080/03050629.2022.2044326
Segev, E. & Boudana, S. (2022). What you google is where you are from: Power and proximity in the global information flow of online searches. The Information Society, 38(2), 79–99. doi: 10.1080/01972243.2022.2027588
Hallinan, B., Kim, B., Mizoroki, S., Scharlach, R., Trillo, T., Thelwall, M., Segev, E. & Shifman, L. (2021). The Value(s) of Social Media Rituals: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of New Year's Resolutions. Information, Communication & Society, 26(4), 764–785. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2021.1983003
Segev, E. (2020). Textual Network Analysis: Detecting Prevailing Themes and Biases in International News and Social Media. Sociology Compass, 14(4), 1–14. doi:10.1111/SOC4.12780 (preprint version - Top Cited Article 2020-21)
Manor, I. and Segev, E. (2020). Social Media Mobility: Leveraging Twitter Networks in Online Diplomacy. Global Policy, 11(2), 233–244. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12799 (preprint version)
Ingenhoff, D., Segev, E., & Chariatte, J. (2020). New insights for public diplomacy: The country and its objectives mirrored between attitudes and information searches in a cross-national comparison. International Journal of Communication, 14(2020), 92–113.
Segev, E. (2019). Volume and control: The transition from information to power. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 14(3), 240–257. doi:10.1080/17447143.2019.1662028 (preprint version)
Segev, E. (2018). Googling the World: Global and Regional Information Flows in Google Trends. International Journal of Communication, 12(2018), 2232-2250.
Baram-Tsabari, A. & Segev, E. (2018). Global and local “teachable moments”: The role of Nobel Prize and national pride. Public Understanding of Science, 27(4), 471–484. doi:10.1177/0963662518768410 (preprint version)
Boudana, S. & Segev, E. (2017). The bias of provocation narratives in international news. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 22(3), 314–332. doi:10.1177/1940161217704968 (preprint version)
Segev, E. (2017). From where does the world look flatter? A comparative analysis of foreign coverage in world news. Journalism, 20(7), 924–942. doi:1464884916688292. (preprint version)
Guttman, N., Lev, E., Segev, E., Ayecheh, S., Ziv, L., Gadamo, F., Dayan, N., & Yavetz, G. (2017). “I never thought I could get health information from the internet!”: Expected and Unexpected Uses of an Internet Website Designed to Enable Ethiopian Immigrants with Low/No Literacy Skills to Browse Health Information. New Media & Society, 20(7), 2272–2295 . doi: 10.1177/1461444817712937
Boudana, S. & Segev, E. (2017). Theorizing provocation narratives as communication strategies. Communication Theory, 27(4), 329–346. doi:10.1111/comt.12119 (preprint version)
Segev, E., & Sharon, A. (2016). Temporal Patterns of Scientific Information-Seeking on Google and Wikipedia. Public Understanding of Science, 26(8), 969–985. doi:10.1177/0963662516648565 (preprint version)
Segev, E. (2016). From propaganda to alarm: International economic news about controlled and free press countries. Studies in Communication Sciences, 16, 70–77.doi:10.1016/j.scoms.2016.03.002 (preprint version)
Segev, E. (2016). The group-sphere model of international news flow: A cross-national comparison of news sites. International Communication Gazette, 78(3), 200–222. doi: 10.1177/1748048515620858 (preprint version)
Blondheim, M., & Segev, E. (2015). Just Spell US Right: America’s News Prominence and Soft Power. Journalism Studies, 18(9), 1128–1147. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2015.1114899 (preprint version)
Manor, I., Segev, E., & Kampf, R. (2015). Digital diplomacy 2.0? A cross-national comparison of public engagement in Facebook and Twitter. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 10(4), 331–362. doi:10.1163/1871191X-12341318 (preprint version)
Segev, E. (2015). Visible and Invisible Countries: News-Flow Theory Revised. Journalism, 16(3), 412–428. doi:10.1177/1464884914521579 (preprint version)
Segev, E., Nissenbaum, A., Stolero, N. and Shifman, L. (2015). Families and Networks of Internet Memes: The Relationship between Cohesiveness, Uniqueness, and Quiddity Concreteness. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20(4), 417–433. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12120
Blondheim, M., Segev, E., & Cabrera, M. A. (2015). The Prominence of Weak Economies: Factors and Trends in Global News Coverage of Economic Crisis, 2009–2012. International Journal of Communication, 9, 46–65.
Cabrera, M. A., Segev, E., & Blondheim, M. (2015). Reporting Recession in Online News Worldwide: Spain as a Test-case. Review of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2(2), 41–58. doi:10.15640/rjmc.v2n2a3
Baram-Tsabari, A., & Segev, E. (2015). The Half-Life of a “Teachable Moment”: The Case of Nobel Laureates. Public Understanding of Science, 24(3), 326-337. doi:10.1177/0963662513491369 (preprint version)
Hills, T. & Segev, E. (2014). The News is American but Our Memories are...Chinese? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 65(9),1810–1819. doi:10.1002/asi.23082 (preprint version)
Segev, E. & Hills, T. (2014). When News and Memory Come Apart: A Cross-National Comparison of Countries’ Mentions. International Communication Gazette, 76(1), 67–85. doi:10.1177/1748048513504159 (preprint version)
Segev, E., Sheafer, T., & Shenhav, S. (2013). Is the World Getting Flatter? A New Method for Examining Structural Trends in the News. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 64(12), 2537–2547. doi:10.1002/asi.22932 (preprint version)
Sheafer, T., Ben Nun, P., Shenhav, S. & Segev, E. (2013). The Conditional Nature of Value-Based Proximity between Countries: Strategic Implications for Mediated Public Diplomacy. American Behavioral Scientist (ABS), 57(9), 1256–1276. doi:10.1177/0002764213487732
Wolfsfeld, G., Segev, E., & Sheafer, T. (2013). The Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Always Comes First. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 18(2), 115–137. doi:10.1177/1940161212471716 (preprint version, podcast)
Segev, E. & Blondheim, M. (2013). America’s Global Standing According to Popular News Sites from Around the World. Political Communication, 30(1), 139–161. doi:10.1080/10584609.2012.737418 (preprint version)
Segev, E. & Blondheim, M. (2013). Online News about Israel and Palestine: A Cross-National Comparison of Prominence and Trends. Digital Journalism, 1(3), 1–13. doi:10.1080/21670811.2012.744560 (preprint version)
Segev, E. & Baram-Tsabari, A. (2012). Seeking Science Information Online: Data Mining Google to Better Understand the Roles of the Media and the Education System. Public Understanding of Science, 21(7), 813–829. doi:10.1177/0963662510387560 (preprint version)
Segev, E. & Miesch, R. (2011). A Systematic Procedure for Detecting News Biases: The Case of Israel in European News Sites. International Journal of Communication, 5, 1947–1966. doi:1932–8036/20111947
Baram-Tsabari, A. & Segev, E. (2011). Exploring New Web-based Tools to Identify Public Interest in Science. Public Understanding of Science, 20(1), 130–143. doi:10.1177/0963662509346496 (preprint version)
Segev, E. (2010). Mapping the International: Global and Local Salience and News-Links Between Countries in Popular News Sites Worldwide. International Journal of Internet Science, 5(1): 48–71.
Segev, E. & Blondheim, M. (2010). The Footprint of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Online World News: The Puzzle of Salience. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 3(2), 72–85. doi:10.1080/17467586.2010.530288 (preprint version)
Segev, E. & Ahituv, N. (2010). Popular Searches in Google and Yahoo!: A "Digital Divide" in the Information Uses? The Information Society, 26(1): 17–37. doi:10.1080/01972240903423477 (preprint version)
Segev, E. (2008). Search Engines and Power: A Politics of Online Mis-Information. Webology, 5(2).
Segev, E. (2008). The Imagined International Community: Dominant American Priorities and Agendas in Google News. Global Media Journal, Fall 2008.
Segev E., Ahituv, N. & Barzilai-Nahon, K. (2007). Mapping Diversities and Tracing Trends of Cultural Homogeneity / Heterogeneity in Cyberspace. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), 1269–1297. doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00373.x
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS:
Segev, E., Boudana, S. & Cohen, A. (2022). The Imbalance of Global News Flow during COVID-19. Presented at UNESCO Conference: Comparative Communication Research in a Globalized Risk Arena: Paradigms – Methods – Critique, May 25, 2022, Paris, France.
Segev, E., Hatzir, N., Watanabe, K., & Tago, A. (2021). The News Coverage of Threats: Iranian Nuclear Programs in Israeli Press. Presented at DACH2021: #Communication #(R)Evolution Changing Communication in a Digital Society, 7-9, April 2021, Zurich, Switzerland.
Segev, E. (2019). Textual Network Analysis: Detecting Prevailing Themes and Biases in International News and Social Media. Presented at The 2nd Annual Conference of Political Textual Analysis, POLTEXT 13-15, September 2019, Tokyo, Japan.
Ingenhoff, D., Segev, E., & Chariatte, J. (2018). New insights for public diplomacy: The country and its objectives mirrored between attitudes and information searches in a cross-national comparison. Presented at the 66th Annual Conference of The International Communication Association, 24-28 May, Prague, Czech Republic.
Manor, I., Segev, E. (2017). Towards networked diplomacy: Following foreign ministries and UN embassies on twitter. The Annual meeting of the Swiss Association for Communication and Media Research, 27-28 April, 2017, The University of Applied Sciences, HTW Chur, Switzerland.
Segev, E., & Sharon, A. (2016). Temporal Patterns of Scientific Information-Seeking on Google and Wikipedia. Presented at the 65 Annual Conference of The International Communication Association, 9-13 June, 2016, Fukuoka, Japan.
Segev, E., Blondheim, M. and Cabrera, M. A. (2015). The global news coverage of economic crisis. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM). March 13-14, 2015. University of Bern, Switzerland.
Nissenbaum, A., Segev, E., Stolero, N. and Shifman, L. (2014). Loyalty Matters: Common Content and Form Attributes of Internet Memes. Presented at the 64 Annual Conference of The International Communication Association (ICA), 22-26 May 2014, Seattle, USA.
Segev, E. & Baram-Tsabari, A. (2013). Using Google Trends to Study Public Interests in Science. Presented at the 63 Annual Conference of The International Communication Association (ICA), 19-26 June 2013, London, UK.
Segev, E., & Hills, T. (2012). The News and Memories of the World: Comparing China, Israel, Switzerland and the U.S. The 9th International Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2012), September 4-7, 2012, ETH Zurich & University of Zurich.
Wolfsfeld, G., Sheafer, T. and Segev, E. (2012). The Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Always Comes First. The Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), August 30-September 2, 2012, New Orleans, LA.
Blondheim, M., & Segev, E. (2012). Why the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Conquers Global Headlines: A Chapter in Journalistic Geosophy. Presented at the 62 Annual Conference of The International Communication Association (ICA), 24-28 May 2012, Phoenix, Arizona.
Segev, E., Sheafer, T., & Shenhav, S., (2011). Is the World Getting Flatter? Structural Trends of News Links between Countries in Leading American and German Newspapers. The 8th International Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2011), September 14-16, 2011, ETH Zurich & University of Zurich.
Segev, E. (2011). Global Salience Meter: A New Method to Map the World of Online News. The 10th Annual Conference of The Israeli Society for History & Philosophy of Science (ISHPS), March 6, 2011, Jerusalem.
Segev, E. (2010). Different Countries - Different Views: A Cross-National Comparison of International News Networks. The 7th International Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2010), September 15-17, 2010, ETH Zurich & University of Zurich.
Blondheim, M., & Segev, E. (2010). America’s Global Standing According to Popular News Sites From Around the World. The Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), June 22-26, 2010, Singapore.
Baram-Tsabari, A., & Segev, E. (2010). Using existing web-based tools to study trends in innovation information seeking. The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism, June 7, 2010, Stanford, CA.
Sheafer, T., Shenhav, S. & Segev, E. (2010). A New Look at the Role of Political Culture Proximity in the International Communication Arena. The 14th Annual Conference of the Israeli Communication Association (ISCA), March 14, 2010, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Segev, E. (2009). Mapping the International: The Prominence of Countries and their News-links in Popular News Sites Worldwide. Workshop on Institutional Analysis (The Ronald Coase Institute), December 13-19, 2009, Xiamen, China.
Baram-Tsabari, A. & Segev, E. (2009). Just Google it! Exploring New Web-based Tools for Identifying Public Interest in Science and Pseudoscience. The 4th Annual Chais Conference on Instructional Technologies Research Learning in the Technological Era, 18 February, 2009, http://www.openu.ac.il/chais2009
Segev, E. (2008). Google and Digital Divide. The Annual Meeting of Internet Researchers, Netvision Institute of Internet Research, Tel Aviv University, 27 May, 2007.
Segev, E. (2006). Digital Divide: The Politics of Online Information through Search Engines. Presented at PIIRS Conference on Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Development, Diversity and Democracy, Princeton University, NJ, 7-8 April 2006.