Sofia (Sofie) Haytin is a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her research examines the intersection of physical and digital migration, employing science and technology studies (STS), theories of community and the public sphere to study how people maintain (online) communities in the face of crisis.

She has a BA in Communication and Political Science and an MA in Communication from the University of Haifa (Israel/Palestine). She has previously contributed reporting and opinion pieces to Haaretz and 972 Magazine. When she’s not PhDing, Sofia enjoys the outdoors, live music and taking pictures of her cat.

Publications

Lachover, E., & Haytin, S. (2024). Is feminism an asset or a burden? Media coverage of a feminist political woman leader. Feminist Media Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2323017

Lachover, E., & Haytin, S. (2022). The presence of women in Israeli news media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report, 2020. Media Frames 21, 177-194. https://doi.org/10.57583/MF.2022.21.10004 [Hebrew]

Haytin, S., & Livio, O. (2019). “What we cannot speak about we must tweet”: Trust among Israeli Twitter users with depression. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.‏ https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2019i0.10980