Neta Kligler Vilenchik
kliglerv [at] usc [dot] edu
Neta graduated Summa Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University, studying communication and political science, and received her MA in communication from the University of Haifa in 2009. In her Master’s program, Neta focused on the intersections between media, memory and national identity. Her thesis applied agenda-setting theory to collective memory research, tracking media's influence on the public's perceptions of collective past events. A later version of this paper received the top student paper award from the Mass Communication Division at ICA. She has also published work on life-stories of television viewers in Israel, and on the conceptual links between agenda-setting and collective memory. As a Fulbright Scholar at Annenberg, Neta has supplemented her main interests in memory and national identity with questions regarding civic engagement and ecological models of communication. She pursues these issues through her active involvement in two research teams. At Metamorphosis, she is part of the communication ecology group, developing a measure gauging individuals’ ecologies in pursuing their goals. In the Civic Paths team, she is involved in qualitative research examining links between participatory culture and civic engagement.