“Mediating the future: The social dynamics of public projections” (PROFECI). The project aims to understand the complex social process of projecting and shaping collective futures within and through the media. It develops an interdisciplinary approach and new research tools for studying how projections about the outcomes and implications of significant events evolve through the interaction of various social actors, and how they are received and acted upon by the public, possibly resulting in self-fulfilling and self-defeating dynamics. The focus is on three retrospective case studies (projections about the Brexit referendum; the civil war in Syria; and Donald Trump's presidential bid) as well as three real-time case studies, to be selected based on geopolitical developments.

 

(awarded by Tel Aviv University in May 2017 for "Understanding journalism through a nuanced deconstruction of temporal layers in news narratives", published in Journal of Communication); With Christian Baden, Keren received the ICA's Political Communication Division Best Poster Award (awarded at the Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2017).