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 television service, became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and developed part of his highly fruitful academic career. Professor Katz made remarkable contributions to sociology, political science, communication studies, and media studies, including his early collaboration with Paul Lazarsfeld that led to the formulation of the “two-step flow” theory of personal influence (Katz and Lazarsfeld, 1955), a better understanding of uses and gratifications in media consumption (Katz, Blumler and Gurevitch, 1973), the study of media events (Dayan and Katz, 1992), and the analysis of meaning production in multicultural contexts (Liebes and Katz, 1990). Katz also rescued from oblivion the legacy of the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), one of the founders of the science of influence and social networks.
The seminar is part of a research project about Prof. Katz’s sociological and communication scholarship, Zionism and Israel, for which I received a grant from the Israel Institute.
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