Biography
Dr. Aviv Barnoy is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication within the ESHCC school at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a member of the Dutch Governmental Sector plan for social sciences and humanities. Barnoy’s research interests cover a wide range of contemporary issues, including #trust, #strategic communication, #digitalization, #AI epistemology, and #misinformation studies. Much of his work is interdisciplinary, incorporating philosophical theories and concepts to explore social phenomena. Barnoy's research has been published in top-tier academic journals and presented at numerous international conferences. He also frequently engages with national media, providing insights and analyses that inform and shape public discourse. Dr. Barnoy actively collaborates with a variety of stakeholders, including industry professionals, citizens, and regulators. His contributions have been recognized by research grants and awards from a variety of organizations such as the International Communication Association (ICA), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Komorov Fund, The 2nd Authority for Media, Zefat College Fund, AiPact, and more.Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Assistant professor | Department of Media and Communication
- barnoy@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Aviv Barnoy, Ori Freiman, Arnon Keren & Boaz Miller (2025) - Norm Violations in Online Discourse: Epistemic and Civil Foundations for Platform Design and Moderation - Social Epistemology - doi: 10.1080/02691728.2025.2566124 - [link]
- Aviv Barnoy, Shirel Bakbani-Elkayam, Boaz Miller & Arnon Keren (2025) - The role of epistemic norms in mitigating the spread of misinformation - New Media & Society - doi: 10.1177/14614448251385917 - [link]
- Aviv Barnoy (2025) - Reconstruction Interviews: Quantitative and Qualitative Applications: Video 2/2 of the series - doi: 10.4135/9781036230449
- Aviv Barnoy (2025) - What are Reconstruction Interviews and When to Use Them?: Video 1/2 of the series - doi: 10.4135/9781036229740
- Arnon Keren, Aviv Barnoy, Ori Freiman & Boaz Miller (2025) - New Atlantis 2.0: Designing Epistemically Healthy Online Conversations - doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198872085.003.0016 - [link]
- Yariv Tsfati & Aviv Barnoy (2025) - Media Cynicism, Media Skepticism and Automatic Media Trust: Explicating Their Connection with News Processing and Exposure - Communication Research - doi: 10.1177/00936502251327717 - [link]
- Zvi Reich & Aviv Barnoy (2023) - Justifying the news: The role of evidence in daily reporting - Journalism, 24 (1), 22-40 - doi: 10.1177/14648849211036835 - [link]
- Aviv Barnoy & Zvi Reich (2023) - The Familiarity Paradox: Why Has Digital Sourcing Not Democratized the News? - Digital Journalism, 11 (6), 1084-1103 - doi: 10.1080/21670811.2021.1937254 - [link]
- Aviv Barnoy & Zvi Reich (2022) - Trusting Others: A Pareto Distribution of Source and Message Credibility Among News Reporters - Communication Research, 49 (2), 196-220 - doi: 10.1177/0093650220911814 - [link]
- Aviv Barnoy (2022) - An Island of Reliability in a Sea of Misinformation?: Understanding PR-Journalists Relations in Times of Epistemic Crisis - Journal of Public Relations Research, 34 (3-4), 89-108 - doi: 10.1080/1062726x.2022.2077347 - [link]
- Aviv Barnoy (2025) - The Epistemology of AI (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2024) - Public Perceptions of AI-Generated Testimony (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2024) - The Epistemology of AI - Exploring Perceptions and Testing Interventions for ResponsibleUse (Participant)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2024) - Ori Freiman (Host)
Activiteit: Hosting an academic visitor › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2024) - Three Types of Normative-Epistemic Intervention Reduce Willingness to Share Misinformation on Social-Media, One Creates a Distinction between True and False Content: Results of a Three-Phased Mix-Method Study. (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2024) - The Role of Algorithms in Shaping Media Content (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2024) - Trustless Strategic Communication’: Navigating the communication landscape amidst misinformation and technological evolution (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2024) - Making Sense of Media (Mis)trust by Differentiating Media Skepticism and Cynicism: A Novel Measurement Tool and Validation Method (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2022) - Making Sense of Media (Mis)trust by Differentiating Media Skepticism and Cynicism: A Novel Measurement Tool and Validation Method (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Aviv Barnoy (2020) - Truth and Trust Online (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic
Master Thesis Project
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM5050
Methods of Media Research
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM4304
Social Marketing Campaigns
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM4164
Media Systems in Comparative Perspective
- Year Level
- BA-1, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM1008
Trust in Strategic Communication
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM2022
