Daniel Dayan

[1] Dayan holds degrees in anthropology, comparative literature, semiotics and film studies from the Sorbonne, Stanford University and L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where he received a Ph.D in Aesthetics under the direction of Roland Barthes[citation needed].

In 2010, he received the ICA Fellows Award for the book Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History, co-authored with American sociologist Elihu Katz.

INA-De Boek, 2006 ; translated into Portuguese in 2009 ); Televisao Das Audiencias aos Publicos ( with Jose Carlos Abrantes, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 2006); Owning the Olympics.

including: Les Annales, Annals of the American Social and Political sciences ; the American journal of Sociology;Communications ;Le Débat ; Film Quarterly The Journal of Communication; L’Homme; Religion; Terrain; Etudes; Media, Culture and Society; Partisan Review; Réseaux; Revista de Occidente.

Dayan focuses on the anthropology of showing: ethnographic explorations of how granting, denying or imposing attention in situations of protest, conflict or controversy contribute to a discussion of the status of visibility in contemporary societies and its role in providing regard[clarification needed].