Nelly Elias (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Among her main research interests are media and migration and media and children. Her most recent projects deal with the roles of mass media in the lives of immigrant children and adolescents and with the process of religious transformation of the Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel. Recently she has joined the Learning in a NetworKed Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE). Within the center she is conducting a series of projects on the infants and toddlers’ media uses in the changing technological environment. Nelly Elias is an author of Coming Home: Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel and Germany, SUNY Press (2008) and has published extensively in leading academic journals in English, Russian and Hebrew.