Dr. Eva Berger is a senior lecturer at the School of Media Studies of the College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN), where she also served as Dean (2006-2012). She holds a B.A. from the Department of Film and Television at Tel-Aviv University (1985) and an M.A. (1986) and a Ph.D. (1991) in Media Ecology from New York University.
Dr. Berger taught at NYU, Tel Aviv University, the Kibbutzim College of Education and the Sam Spiegel Film School, and has been part of the faculty at COLMAN for over 30 years.
She has served on numerous boards and public service organizations including the Israel Peace Initiative, Israel Press Council, and Institute of General Semantics.
Eva has been a frequent commentator in the Israeli press on issues relating to media, technology, language, and culture. She served on the editorial board of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology (The Journal of the Media Ecology Association), and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Giluy Daat, a Multidisciplinary Journal on Education, Society and Culture, Seminar Hakibbutzim Publishers, as well as Secretary and member of the Board of Trustees of ETC.: A Review of General Semantics.
She served as Chairwoman of the board of Women in the Picture (the Association for the Advancement of Women in the Visual Arts).
She is the author of various articles and book chapters in the fields of Communication and Media Studies. Her books include The Communication Panacea: Paediatrics and General Semantics (co-authored with Dr. Isaac Berger) and her latest book – Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution – won the 2023 Irving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction awarded by the Media Ecology Association.
Research Interests and teaching: Media Ecology, Technology, Digital Technology, Language, General Semantics.