Chaim Noy

Chain Noy (; born: 1 July 1968) is an Israeli media and communication professor and the Chair of the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is the immediate past Chair of the Israeli Communication Association (ISCA), and the Vice President – International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA). Noy previously taught at the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.

Noy's research employs qualitative, discursive and ethnographic approaches to mediated and face-to-face communication events and environments. His foci are on affordances of communication and in older and newer media, which he studies in contexts of contemporary travel, tourism, museums, and political activism.

Noy has written three books, published over 80 academic publications, as well as contributed numerous conference papers. For his book, Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2015), Noy received the Best Book Award by the Israeli Communication Association.

Early life and education Chaim Noy was born in Jerusalem, to his parents Prof. Dov Noy, and Dr. Tamar Noy. He studied at Gymnasia Rehavia, and served in the IDF in the Intelligence Corps. He received his B.A. in Psychology and Biblical Studies from Bar-Ilan University (summa cum laude) in 1994, and his M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (summa cum laude) in 1996.

Professional Experience 2019 – Present: Vice President – International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA)

Books

Noy, C. (2015). “Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem.” New York: Oxford University Press. Noy, C. (2007). “Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers.” Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Noy, C. and Cohen, E. (Eds.), (2005). “Israeli Backpackers: From Tourism to a Rite of Passage.” A co-edited volume. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Selected articles

Navon, S., and Noy, C. "Conceptualizing social media sub-platforms: The case of mourning and memorialization practices on Facebook." New Media & Society Noy, C. (2021). "Theorising comment books as historical sources: towards a performative and interpretive framework." Studies in Travel Writing, 25(3), 235-255 Noy, C. (2020). "Museum Audience’s Texts: Toward a Contextual Conceptual Reading." Visitor Studies, 24(1), 38-57 Noy, C. 2020). "Gestures of closure: A small stories approach to museumgoers' texts." Text & Talk, 40(6), 733-753 Noy, C. (2019). "Voices on display: Handwriting, paper, and authenticity, from museums to social network sites." Convergence, 26(5-6), 1315-1332 Noy, C. (2017). “Participatory Media and Discourse in Heritage Museums: Co-constructing the Public Sphere?” Communication, Culture & Critique, 10(2): 280-301 Noy, C. (2016). “Participatory Media New and Old: Semiotics and Affordances of Museum Media.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 33(4): 308–323. Noy, C. (2016). “’My Holocaust Experience was Great!’”: Entitlements for Participation in Museum Media.” Discourse & Communication, 10(3): 274–290. Noy, C. (2015). “Writing in Museums: Towards a Rhetoric of Participation.” Written Communication, 32(2): 195–219. Hercbergs, D., and Noy, C. (2015). “Mobile Cartographies and Mobilized Ideologies: The Visual Management of Jerusalem.” Antipode, 47(4): 942–962. McIlvenny, P. and Noy, C. (2011). Co-edited Special Issue of Social Semiotics, 21(2), titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Spaces of Multimodal Discourse.” Noy, C. (2011). “’I Worship You - Israeli Soldiers’: Gender-cum-national Performances at an Israeli Commemoration Site.” Israel: Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel, 18-19: 211-236. [in Hebrew]. Noy, C. (2009). “’I WAS HERE!’: Addressivity Structures and Inscribing Practices as Indexical Resources.” Discourse Studies, 11(4): 421-440. Noy, C. (2008). Mediation Materialized: The Semiotics of a Visitor Book at an Israel Commemoration Site. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(2): 175-195. Noy, C. (2007). “Sampling Knowledge: The Hermeneutics of Snowball Sampling in Qualitative Research.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 11(4), 327–344. Noy, C. (2004). “’The Trip Really Changed Me’”: Backpackers’ Narratives of Self-Change.” Annals of Tourism Research, 31(1): 78-102. Noy, C. (2003) “Narratives of Hegemonic Masculinity: Presentations of Body and Space in Israeli Backpackers’ Narratives.” Israeli Sociology, 5(1): 75-120. Special Issue on Masculinity. [in Hebrew] Noy, C. (2002). “‘You MUST go Trek There’: The Persuasive Genre of Narration among Israeli Backpackers.” Narrative Inquiry, 12(2): 261-290.

Media Prof. Noy’s research and opinions on media and tourism are featured on Israeli and international media organizations.

Personal life Noy is married to Orly. They have two daughters and live in Jerusalem. Noy is also an Aikido instructor (Sensei) (Dan 5), at the Jerusalem Aikido at Mt. Scopus Dojo.