Alina Bernstein (Ph.D., Leicester, UK) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication of the College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN) School of Media Studies and at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Her main area of research is media and sport. Her publications include: the co-edited book (with Neil Blain) Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions (UK: Frank Cass, 2002) and the co-edited book (with Cornel Sandvoss and Michael Real) Bodies of Discourse: Sport Stars, Mass Media and the Global Public (USA: Peter Lang publishing, 2012).