Azi Lev-on
Azi Lev-On
Visiting Lecturer, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford 2009-2010
Azi Lev-On earned his B.A. from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) in computer science and political science, his M.A. from Tel-Aviv University in political science, and Ph.D. from New York University, also in political science. After that he spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow in the program for politics, philosophy and economics in the University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is the head of the new media track in Ariel University Center in Israel.
Lev-On's studies explore behaviors and organization in computer-mediated environments. Recent research studies how and why computer-mediated communication impacts monetary transfers in trust games, how people rank news stories online, as well as Internet usage by candidates in the Israeli municipal elections 2008, and by Ultra-Orthodox women who participate in closed forums online, and by evacuees from Gush Katif in order to distribute information, organize and keep in touch.
His work has been published in several academic journals, including Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Rationality and Society, Synthese, and the Journal of Information Technology and Politics.