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Dr. Karine Barzilai-Nahon is an assistant
professor at the
Information
School,
director of the
Center for
Information & Society,
faculty adjunct at the
department of Communication
and affiliated faculty at the
Center for Communication
and Civic Engagement in
University
of Washington.
Her research interests
lie in information policy and
politics and in the social aspects of the
management of information.
More specifically she studies information
control and gatekeeping, self-regulation
mechanisms in cyberspace and particularly in
virtual communities, and "Digital Divide"
measurement tools.
She holds a PhD and MSc in Management of
Information Systems (2004) from Tel-Aviv
University,
and BA in Computer Science and Political
Science.
Currently, she co-chairs
the
virtual communities
minitrack and the
digital divide minitrack at
HICSS.
She serves as an expert in many decision-making
forums that relate to Internet and information
technology policy and advises the science and
technology committee of the Israeli parliament.
She academically directed the Israeli delegation
and participated as a representative in the UN
summit of WSIS (World Summit of Information
Society). Formerly she held senior positions in
Research and Development in the hi-tech
industry.
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