In the winter term of 2027 (in English) I will be teaching (at @uOttawa) a special topic course entitled Zionism and the Modern Mindset of Communication and Society Research: The Life and Work of Elihu Katz. The course will be taught as a seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies (AHL4100A) (Thursday, 8:30AM - 11:20AM). This video is a short summary of a talk that I recently gave at Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa about the life and work of Katz, one of the most important scholars in sociology and communication of the XX century. Here is the description of the special topic course: The course will explore the connections between Zionist ideas and theories as well as the research of one of the most important scholars in communication sciences and social sciences of the 20th century, the Israeli-American Professor Elihu Katz (1926–2021). Katz, a Jew originally from the United States of America, moved to Israel in the 1960s, where he played an important role in launching the public telev...
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