Sigal Naim

Sigal Naim is a gerontologist and has PhD in communication. She is a lecturer at the departments of Human services and Health systems management, Yezreel Academic College, Israel and the department of Gerontology, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel. Currently she conducts a post-doc on digital literacy under the supervision of Prof. Israel (Issi) Doron, in the Department of Gerontology, the University of Haifa, and is a member of the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Ageing, which she is also its academic coordinator. Sigal is also the coordinator of the Center for research and study of Aging in the University of Haifa. She finished her doctoral studies in the Department of Communication Studies in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel under the supervision of Prof. Galit Nimrod and her first post-doctoral study in the Department of Communication in Ariel University, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Azi Lev-On. Her PhD thesis topic is elders on SNS’s (mainly Facebook) – motivations, patterns of use, benefits and risks and her post-doc dealt with digital literacy in old age. Her research topics are new media and social network sites in old age, digital literacy in old age, elders’ inequality, social exclusion/inclusion in old age, elder abuse and neglect, including self-neglect, quality of life in old age, aging policy and qualitative research methods. At the moment I involved in several research projects on family relations and caregiving, accessibility and use of health services by older Jews and Arabs, Ageism and elders’ portraits in the media, digital literacy in old age and elders’ and technology.

She can be contacted at: mcia@univ.haifa.ac.il