Akiba A. Cohen (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1973) is Professor of Communication at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the founding chair of the department. He is a former president of the International Communication Association and a Fellow of the Association. His main interests are research on television news in a cross-national perspective and mobile telephony in Israel. Together with Dafna Lemish and Amit Schejter he published The wonder phone in the land of miracles: Mobile Telephony in Israel (The Hampton Press, 2008).