Mor Yachin
Presidential Fellow Communication- Education
M.A. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Communication StudiesB.A. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Communication and Middle Eastern Studies
- Specializations
Comparative media research
- Biography
Mor Yachin is pursuing her Ph.D. in Communication Studies at Georgia State University. She completed her MA in Communication Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests include older populations, and their use of innovative technologies. In addition, she focuses on the intersection of social media and music, and examines how memory processes occur between different media.
She speaks Hebrew, English and Arabic.
- Publications
Yachin, M., & Nimrod, G. (2020). Innovation in later life: A study of grandmothers and Facebook. International Journal of Aging and Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091415020940200
Yachin, M., & Tirosh, N. (2021) “A Line from a Song that Punches You in the Stomach” –Music and the Negotiations of Cultural Memory in Facebook. Popular Music and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2021.1958444