How Israeli Media Manages Gaza: An Essay Discussion with Professor Rebecca Stein

Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Rebecca Stein, discusses her essay, "Vanishing acts: How the Israeli media manages Gaza," (2024, March 22, Antipode Online).
Participation in the workshop requires reading of the essay in advance, which can be found at: https://antipodeonline.org/2024/03/22/vanishing-acts/

Rebecca Stein is a cultural anthropologist and award‑winning teaching whose research explores the intersections of culture, politics, and military power in Israel/Palestine. Her work examines how the Israeli military occupation and the legacy of Palestinian dispossession are shaped, mediated, and contested through emerging media technologies, and she is the author and editor of several books in anti‑colonial Israel/Palestine studies.

Her most recent book, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine," investigates how digital photographic technologies-and the glitches, lapses, and failures within them-illuminate shifting dynamics of occupation in the digital age. This work builds on her earlier book, Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age (with Adi Kuntsman).

Stein's current project examines the changing status of wartime evidence amid the rise of AI, OSINT, and digital forensics. Her research has been supported by ACLS, the Wenner‑Gren Foundation, the Palestinian American Research Council, and the Trent Foundation.