Nicholas John, PhD.

Uri Nissan 5/4,

Ramat Gan, 52406

Telephone: 03 578 1993; 054 7906073

Email: nikjohn@gmail.com

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Israel

PhD student: The Arrival of the Internet in Israel: The Local Diffusion of a Global Technology (2001-2008)

Advisor: Prof. Eva Illouz

Fast-track M.A. student (1999-2001)

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, England

BA (Hons) Class I: Social and Political Sciences (1992-1995)

PUBLICATIONS

Illouz, Eva and Nicholas John. 2007. “Romantic webs: emotions, the body and the Internet”. Chapter 3 of Illouz, E. (2007). Cold intimacies: the making of emotional capitalism. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Illouz, Eva, and Nicholas John. 2007. “Oprah Winfrey and Women’s Autobiography: A Televisual Performance of the Reflexive Self”. In I’m Every Woman: The Phenomenon of Oprah. Watson, Elwood and Jennifer Harris (Eds).

Illouz, Eva, and Nicholas John. 2003. "Global Habitus, Local Stratification and Symbolic Struggles over Identity: The Case of McDonald's Israel." American Behavioral Scientist, 47:201-229

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Israeli Internet Pioneers”, presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Israel, April 2009

“The future of the ISP industry in Israel”, presented at the 13^th Annual Conference of the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL), Israel, March, 2009

“Unicode and the Glocalization of the Internet”, Conference organized by the Netvision Institute for Internet Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, March 2006

“The Internet as a cultural aspect of globalization in Israel”, presented at the 35^th Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, Beer Sheva, Israel, February 2004

“Global Habitus, Local Stratification and Symbolic Struggles over Identity: The Case of McDonald's Israel”, presented at Bourdieu and Israeli Society, The van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, November 2003

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Israel

·        Sociology of the Internet (2006)

·        Computer Applications in Sociology and Anthropology (2000-2006)

·        Academic Writing (2003-2005)

·        Sociological Theory (teaching assistant to MA course) (2002)

Ha’Michlela Le’Minhal, Rishon Le’Tzion

·        Introduction to Sociology (2004-2006)

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

I currently work as a Research Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis and Forecasting at Tel Aviv University. I also work as freelance academic translator, and have translated numerous articles and three books.