Amit Kama Editor

Sigal Barak-Brandes is a Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her research interests include: gender representations, media images and ideologies of motherhood, women and girls audiences, girls' images, girls and Facebook, media and crime victims. She has published in international journals such as Communication, Culture & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, The Communication Review, European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Amit Kama is a Senior Lecturer at Yezreel Valley Academic College, Israel. His research focuses on minority groups – particularly, gay men and lesbians, people with disabilities, and migrant workers and immigrants – and the construction of their identities vis-à-vis mediated representations. In the past decade he has been studying cultural constructions and manifestations of the body. His works include numerous papers published in international and Israeli journals as well as five books published in Israel. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of LGBT Youth and Media Frame