פרופ' אורי שורץ

Books:

Schwarz, Ori (2021) Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us                           Together. Cambridge: Polity.

             Reviewed in: European Journal of Sociology; Israeli Sociology

             Turkish Translation:
Schwarz, Ori (2025) Dijital Toplumun Sosyolojik Teorisi: Bizi Birbirimize Bağlayan Kodlar. Istanbul: Ayrinti Yayinlari.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Schwarz, Ori (2025) 'The post-choice society: Algorithmic prediction and the decentring of choice', Theory, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1177/02632764251322062

Schwarz, Ori (2024) ‘Dancing simultaneously on both fields, or: Why is critical theory being 'misused'?’, Israeli Sociology 25(2) [in Hebrew].

Schwarz, Ori (2023) ‘Why did Trump call prayers politically correct? The coevolution of the PC notion, the authenticity ethic, and the role of the sacred in public life’, Theory & Society 52(5): 771–804.

Schwarz, Ori (2023) ‘Democracy or rebellion: On meaning work and the construction of a crisis’, Israeli Sociology 24(2): 192–205 [in Hebrew].

Schwarz, Ori (2021) 'Identity as a barrier: claiming universality as a strategy in the Israeli vegan movement', Social Movement Studies 20(5): 600–618.

Schwarz, Ori (2019) 'Facebook Rules: Structures of governance in digital capitalism and the control of generalized social capital', Theory, Culture & Society 36(4):117–141.

Schwarz, Ori (2019) '"Everything is Designed to Make an Impression": the moralization of aesthetic judgment and the hedonistic ethic of authenticity', European Journal of Cultural Studies 22(4): 399–415.

Schwarz, Ori (2ׁ018) 'Cultures of Choice: Towards a sociology of choice as a cultural phenomenon', British Journal of Sociology 69(3): 845-864.

Schwarz, Ori and Guy Shani (forthcoming, 2016) 'Culture in mediated interaction: Political defriending on Facebook and the limits of networked individualism', American Journal of Cultural Sociology 4(3): 385–421

Schwarz, Ori (2016) 'The Sociology of Fancy-Schmancy: The notion of "farterism" and cultural evaluation under the regime of radical suspicion', Cultural Sociology 10 (2): 141-159.*

                  * 2017 winner of the SAGE Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence, awarded by the British Sociological Association and Sage Publications.

Schwarz, Ori (2016) 'The Symbolic Economy of Authenticity as a Form of Symbolic Violence: The Case of Middle-class Ethnic Minorities', Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 17(1): 2-19.

Schwarz, Ori (2015) 'The Sound of Stigmatization: Sonic habitus, sonic styles, and boundary work in an urban slum', American Journal of Sociology 121(1):205-242.*

                    * 2016 winner of the Louis Guttman Best Article Prize, awarded by the Israeli Sociological Society.

Schwarz, Ori (2014) '”Very Ashkenzai Iraqis”: On authenticity, class boundaries, and the metaphoricity of ethnic language in Israel', Theory & Criticism 43:103-130 (in Hebrew).

Schwarz, Ori (2014) 'Arab Sounds in a Contested Space: Life Quality, Cultural Hierarchies and National Silencing, Ethnic & Racial Studies 37(11):2034-2054.

Schwarz, Ori (2014) 'The Past Next Door: Neighborly Relations with Digital Memory-Artifacts', Memory Studies 7(1):7-21.

Schwarz, Ori (2013) 'Bending Forward, one Step Backward: On the Sociology of Tasting Techniques', Cultural Sociology 7(4):415-430.

Schwarz, Ori (2013) 'Dead Honest Judgments: emotional expression, sonic styles and evaluating sounds of mourning in late modernity',  American Journal of Cultural Sociology 2(1):153-185.

Schwarz, Ori (2013) 'What Should Nature Sound Like? Techniques of engagement with nature sites and sonic preferences of Israeli visitors',  Annals of Tourism Research 42: 382-401.

Schwarz, Ori (2012) 'The New Hunter Gatherers: Making Human Interaction Productive in the Network Society’, Theory, Culture & Society 29(6): 78-98.

Schwarz, Ori (2011) 'Who Moved my Conversation? Instant Messaging, Intertextuality, and New Regimes of Intimacy and Truth', Media, Culture & Society 33(1): 71-87.

Schwarz, Ori (2010) 'Going to Bed with a Camera: On the Visualisation of Sexuality and the Production of Knowledge', International Journal of Cultural Studies 13(6): 637-656.

Schwarz, Ori (2010) 'Praying with a Camera-phone: Mediation and Transformation in Jewish Rituals', Culture & Religion 11(3): 177-194.

Schwarz, Ori (2010) 'Negotiating Romance in Front of the Lens',  Visual Communication 9(2): 151-169.

Schwarz, Ori (2010) 'On Friendship, Boobs and the Logic of the Catalogue: Online Self-Portraits as a Means for the Exchange of Capital', Convergence 16(2):163-183.

Schwarz, Ori (2009) 'Good Young Nostalgia: Camera Phones and Technologies of Self among Israeli Youths', Journal of Consumer Culture 9(3): 348–376, reprinted in: 12a. Hughes, Jason  and John Goodwin (in press) Documentary & Archival Research, London: Sage.

Books Chapters:

Schwarz, Ori (Forthcoming 2017) 'Emotional Ear Drops: the Music Industry and Technologies of Emotional Management', in Eva Illouz (ed.) Emotions as Commodities: Capitalism, Consumption and Authenticity, London: Routledge

                   Translations:
                   Schwarz, Ori (2018), 'Emotionale Ohrentropfen: Die Musikindustrie und die Technologien der Gefühlssteuerung', in Eva Illouz (ed.) Wa(h)re Gefühle: Authentizität im Konsumkapitalismus, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

                   Schwarz, Ori (2019) 'Gotas emocionales para el oído: la industria de la música y las tecnologías de gestión emocional', in Eva Illouz (ed.) Capitalismo, consumo y autenticidad: Las emociones como mercancía, Buenos Aires: Katz Editores.

                   Schwarz, Ori (2019) 'Des gouttes émotionnelles dans les oreilles: l'industrie de la musique et la gestion des émotions', in Eva Illouz (ed.) Les Marchandises émotionnelles: L'authenticité au temps du capitalisme. Paris: Premier Parallèle.

Schwarz, Ori (2011) 'Place Beyond Place: on Artifacts, Religious Technologies, and the Mediation of the Sacred Place', In Daniel R. Schwartz & Zeev Weiss (eds.), Was 70 C.E. Really a Watershed in Jewish History?, Leiden: Brill.

Book Reviews:

Schwarz, Ori (2015) Points of Reference: Changing Identities and Social Positioning in Israeli Society, Shavit, Ze'ev, Orna Sasson-Levy, and Guy Ben-Porat (eds), 2014, reviewed in Israeli Sociology 16(2):199-201 [in Hebrew].

Schwarz, Ori (2010) The Inner History of Devices, S. Turkle (ed.), 2008, reviewed in Cultural Sociology 4(2):312-315.